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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Democratic members of New Mexico's congressional delegation are renewing their pleas for federal land managers to limit oil and natural gas drilling in the northwestern corner of the state over concerns about a...

COPPELL, Texas (AP) — Retail gasoline prices in Texas and the rest of the country declined this week. AAA Texas on Thursday reported the average price at the pump statewide was down 4 cents to settle at $2.17 per gallon. Drivers across the U.S. a...

GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) — Three small earthquakes were recorded overnight in central Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey reports a magnitude 3.4 quake struck shortly before 10:30 p.m. Wednesday near Guthrie, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of O...

BERLIN (AP) — Europe could see a surge in "climate refugees" as global warming increases poverty and hardship elsewhere in the world, scientists said Thursday. Experts have long warned that rising temperatures and extreme weather could increase t...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Fort Worth meatpacker is recalling nearly 4 tons of ground beef products that contain soy but the allergen is not listed on the labels. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday announced the recall by PFP E...

Examples of how states have been reacting to the threat of running out of federal money for the Children's Health Insurance Program. It was unclear how their plans might change with the short-term federal funds Congress approved Thursday. —Arizona: M...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has again failed to approve long-term funds for a popular program that provides health insurance for nearly 9 million low-income children, leaving each party blaming the other for Christmas-season gridlock and states s...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) For years, the media have reported that more suicides occur during the holidays than at any other time. Many of...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) This time of the year brings a lot of changes to the usual day-to-day life of hundreds of millions of people: The...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Planned Parenthood subsidiary told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday that Arkansas' restrictions on how abortion pills are administered could effectively end medication abortions in the state and leave Arkansas with o...

DALLAS (AP) — A juvenile correctional center in Dallas for years didn't allow its inmates to go outside for months on end, according to former guards, probation officers and families of incarcerated teens. The Lyle B. Medlock Youth Treatment C...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California faces potentially "dire" public health and financial consequences from new rules by the Trump administration allowing more employers to opt out of providing women with no-cost birth control, a federal judge said Thursd...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico attorney general's office added on Wednesday three new pharmaceutical companies to a lawsuit accusing opioid manufacturers and distributors of exacerbating the state's drug addiction crisis. Attorney General He...

NEW YORK (AP) — Move over, Alexa. While Amazon pioneered the internet-connected speaker that responds to voice commands, it now has plenty of competition from other tech heavyweights. Even the original Amazon Echo has six Alexa-powered alternatives v...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission has proposed fining TV-station owner Sinclair $13.4 million for not identifying paid programming as advertising. Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. is one of the country's largest owners of TV s...

NEW YORK (AP) — The toys your kids unwrap this Christmas could invite hackers into your home. That Grinch-like warning comes from the FBI, which said earlier this year that toys connected to the internet could be a target for crooks who may listen i...

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says it is changing how it identifies "fake news" stories on its platform to a more effective system. The social-media network had put "disputed" labels on stories that fact-checkers found false. Instead, now it will bring u...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday that a U.S. accusation that it was behind a major ransomware attack was a "grave political provocation" and vowed to retaliate. Homeland security adviser Tom Bossert wrote in a Wall Street J...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) 2017 may well be remembered as the year of alternative facts and fake news. Truth took a hit, and experts seemed to...

SYDNEY (AP) — One of Australia's oldest naval mysteries has been solved after the discovery of the wreck of the country's first submarine more than 103 years after its disappearance in World War I. The AE1 vanished off the New Guinean island of N...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Most golfers like short par 3s, but West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice probably wishes No. 18 at the Greenbrier Classic in 2015 was a little longer — 33 yards longer to be exact. In 2015, Justice's charity promised fans at the...

NESS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says it arrested the Ness County Sheriff after an investigation into misconduct. The KBI announced Thursday that 47-year-old Sheriff Bryan Whipple, of Ness City, was arrested on charges of p...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 62-year-old Topeka man has admitted stabbing two men to death in September in Topeka. Maximo Campillo-Echevarria pleaded guilty Thursday to murder in the deaths of 61-year-old Thomas Paul O'Conner and 22-year-old Chance C...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Shawnee County authorities say a 21-year-old man has been charged with killing a 5-year-old girl in a drive-by shooting. Jessie Deshawn Hughes, of Topeka, was charged Thursday with one count of felony first-degree murder in the 2...