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DETROIT (AP) — The government wants smartphone makers to lock out most apps when the phone is being used by someone driving a car. The…

LOS EBANOS, Texas (AP) — All along the winding Rio Grande, the people who live in this bustling, fertile region where the U.S. border meets…

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal regulators are urging railroads across the country to test train operators for obstructive sleep apnea after the engineer in September’s…

A police officer has been fatally shot in Texas, and another in Missouri was shot in the face but is expected to survive, in what…

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A bystander who shot and killed a man who was attacking a deputy near a southwest Florida highway has been…

CINCINNATI (AP) — A barrier separating Cincinnati Zoo visitors from a gorilla exhibit wasn’t in compliance with standards when a 3-year-old boy managed to slip…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Three New Zealand cows whose predicament captured the interest of many people around the world after they became stranded on…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Donald Trump’s presidential victory set off protests early Wednesday on both coasts. From Pennsylvania to California, Oregon and Washington hundreds of…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Voter support for marijuana legalization reached a new high as California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved recreational pot, joining four other states…

From Virginia coal country, as election results trickled in, Jimmy McDonald texted his boss to warn he might need a day off Wednesday. Celebrations, it…