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September 19, 2017

The Latest: Prime minister: 'Merciless' winds on Dominica

The Latest on tropical weather (all times local): 10 p.m. A series of Facebook posts by Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt ...

September 19, 2017

4 US monuments to be scaled back hold artifacts, key habitat

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's recommendation to shrink four sprawling national monuments in the U.S. West jeopardizes ...

September 19, 2017

SW Florida residents clear sodden homes in scorching heat

Dealing with wrecked belongings and reports of toxic muck, residents of a tiny town where Florida's Everglades meet the Gulf ...

September 19, 2017

Lawsuit aims to block oil drilling on US land in Nevada

Environmentalists have sued a U.S. agency to try to stop it from allowing oil and gas drilling on a vast stretch of federal ...

September 19, 2017

State, federal authorities proposing new rules on Equifax

State and federal authorities are proposing tougher regulations against Equifax and the entire credit monitoring industry ...

September 18, 2017

Interior chief urges shrinking 4 national monuments in West

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending that four large national monuments in the West be reduced in size, potentially ...

September 18, 2017

Why some hurricanes linger while other storms die quickly

This hurricane season is showing how wild and varied storms' life cycles can be. Most storms seem to be tracked for days ...

September 18, 2017

Parents of Ga. Tech Student Outraged by Killing

The father of a Georgia Tech student who was fatally shot by campus police said his child had a history of depression but he ...

September 18, 2017

Saudi authorities pressure Snapchat to block Al-Jazeera

Snapchat has blocked Al-Jazeera's Discover channel in Saudi Arabia amid an ongoing dispute between Gulf states and Qatar, ...

September 18, 2017

Intel, Waymo, expand self-driving car collaboration

Intel says it is expanding its relationship with Google spinoff Waymo in the development of self-driving cars. The world's ...

September 18, 2017

Correction: Georgia Tech Student Killed story

In a story Sept. 17 about the death of Georgia Tech student Scout Schultz, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Schultz's ...

September 18, 2017

Earth sweltered to 3rd hottest August, summer on record

Earth just sweated through the third hottest August and summer on record. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

September 18, 2017

Fierce storms haven't slowed growth along US coastlines

Rising sea levels and fierce storms have failed to stop relentless population growth along U.S. coasts in recent years, a new ...

September 18, 2017

Activist urges walrus rafts in absence of Arctic sea ice

An environmental activist is calling on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider placing anchored rafts in the ocean ...

September 18, 2017

Strengthening Hurricane Maria a threat to Irma-hit Caribbean

The islands of the eastern Caribbean prepared Sunday to face another potential disaster, with forecasters saying newly formed ...

September 18, 2017

Mars research crew emerges after 8 months of isolation

Six NASA-backed research subjects who have been cooped up in a Mars-like habitat on a remote Hawaii volcano since January ...

September 18, 2017

Hard to spot: criminals find new ways to smuggle rhino horns

International traffickers have tried many ways to smuggle African rhino horns to Asia, concealing them inside wooden Buddha ...

September 17, 2017

Warm waters off West Coast has lingering effects for salmon

The mass of warm water known as "the blob" that heated up the North Pacific Ocean has dissipated, but scientists are still ...

September 17, 2017

Key Equifax executives departing after huge data breach

Equifax announced late Friday that its chief information officer and chief security officer would leave the company ...