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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration vowed Tuesday that North Korea would be held accountable for a May cyberattack that affected 150 countries, but it didn't say how, highlighting the difficulty of punishing a pariah nation already s...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A bouncing baby bongo has been born in New Orleans. The 46-pound female is from a highly endangered antelope subspecies. It's the first calf conceived at the Species Survival Center created by the Audubon Nature Institute and San D...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Like a friendly Pied Piper, the violinist keeps up a toe-tapping beat as dancers weave through busy hospital hallways and into the chemotherapy unit, patients looking up in surprised delight. Upstairs, a cellist plays an Irish f...

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — When Matt King first got on Facebook eight years ago, the blind engineer had to weigh whether it was worth spending an entire Saturday morning checking whether a friend of his was actually in his friend list. Such were the t...

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government on Tuesday criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to label Beijing a strategic rival and called on Washington to "abandon a Cold War mentality" and accept China's rise. Trump's decision reflects a "...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An estimated 258 million people have left their birth countries and are now living in other nations — an increase of 49 percent since 2000, says a U.N. report on international migration released Monday. The biennial report relea...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Promotion of religion is "engrained" in a Louisiana school district, a parent said in a federal lawsuit, and her family has been shunned and criticized for objecting to religious activities. Christy Cole's lawsuit seeks a court d...

CHICKASHA, Okla. (AP) — Four faculty members of a central Oklahoma school district have been suspended amid an investigation into alleged abuse and embezzlement within the district. Chickasha Public Schools suspended Athletic Director Yohance B...

HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say a juvenile in north-central Arkansas has been arrested on suspicion of threatening a shooting at his school. Cleburne County Sheriff Chris Brown says deputies learned last Thursday that a Heber Springs s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is reliant on China and other nations for the overwhelming majority of critical minerals used for manufacturing everything from smartphones to wind turbines and cars, a new federal report says. The report r...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A University of Oklahoma regent who likened gay people to pedophiles publicly apologized Tuesday during an appearance with the head of an LGBTQ advocacy group and reiterated that he doesn't plan to resign. Kirk Humphreys, a real...

WASHINGTON (AP) — So what's in the massive $1.5 trillion Republican tax package, what's not and what does it mean for most Americans? The complex legislation, weeks in the making, scales back the popular deduction for state and local taxes, bad n...

PARIS (AP) — France's parliament has approved a law banning all exploration and production of oil and natural gas by 2040 within the country and its overseas territories. Under that law that passed a final vote on Tuesday, existing drilling p...

DENVER (AP) — A federal prosecutor says a Texas-based oil and gas company will pay $2.25 million to settle allegations that it underpaid royalties for natural gas produced on federal land in Wyoming. Colorado U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer said Tuesday t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In laying out his national security strategy, President Donald Trump sold short the records of his predecessors, speaking as if the energy boom started with him and the gates of America were wide open before he came along. On T...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on a budget shortfall at the Oklahoma State Department of Health (all times local): 4 p.m. A former top financial officer at the Oklahoma State Department of Health says the agency was "a financial time bomb" before au...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court has sided with chemical manufacturer Bayer in its fight against a lawsuit over one of its birth control products. Supreme Court judges in a unanimous Tuesday ruling said a lower court was wrong t...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's maternal mortality rate is ranked as one of the worst in the country. Last year's Health of Women and Children Report by the United Health Foundation put the national average at nearly 20 deaths per 100,000 live bir...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials on Tuesday approved the nation's first gene therapy for an inherited disease, a treatment that improves the sight of patients with a rare form of blindness. It marks another major advance for the emerging f...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Soft toys on the beds and posters on the walls. No more than three children to a room. One of the girls living in the four-bedroom home gushes about getting makeup for her birthday. In this group home on a leafy street in B...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Officials at the Arkansas Department of Human Services say more than 80,000 people were removed from the state's Medicaid rolls in 2017 after new technology and data were used to show they were ineligible for the benefits. N...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Art director Momo Pixel moved to Portland, Oregon in 2016, and confronted a challenge she had never experienced before: Strangers reaching out to grab or stroke her long braided hair, often without her permission. "I would be w...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A giant chunk of central Idaho with a dazzling night sky has become the nation's first International Dark Sky Reserve. The International Dark-Sky Association late Monday designated the 1,400-square-mile (3,600-square-kilometer) C...

WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts grocery store employee has surprised shoppers with his operatic renditions of popular Christmas music. Tony Russo, owner of Russo's Market in Watertown, tells The Boston Globe he had no idea Guilherme A...

SCOTLAND, Conn. (AP) — Residents of the rural town of Scotland, Connecticut, are becoming lords and ladies in the United Kingdom country of the same name. The Scottish land preservation company Highland Titles said Tuesday it's gifting all 1,694 r...