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January 12, 2019

Trump hails drug price decline not supported by the evidence

President Donald Trump claims drug prices fell in 2018 for the first time in nearly 50 years, but the evidence doesn't appear ...

January 12, 2019

Researcher: Calf born to endangered Pacific Northwest orcas

Researchers say there's a new calf among the population of critically endangered killer whales that live in the waters ...

January 11, 2019

Avalanches, accidents bring Europe's winter death toll to 21

Heavy snow paralyzed much of Europe for yet another day, cutting off mountain villages, sparking avalanches like one that ...

January 11, 2019

UK hacker jailed for attack on Liberian telecoms firm

A British computer hacker has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for a cyberattack that knocked out telecommunications ...

January 11, 2019

The Latest: Poland spying suspect held top cyber jobs

The Latest on the espionage-related arrests in Poland (all times local): 6 p.m. The Polish state news agency says a Polish ...

January 11, 2019

China broadcasts spacecraft pictures from moon's far side

China on Friday broadcast pictures taken by its rover and lander on the moon's far side, in what its space program hailed as ...

January 11, 2019

AT&T to end all location-data sales to data brokers

AT&T says it will stop selling all location data from mobile phones to brokers following a report that companies are still ...

January 11, 2019

Oregon begins killing sea lions after relocation fails

Oregon wildlife officials have started killing California sea lions that threaten a fragile and unique type of trout in the ...

January 11, 2019

Activists want details on inquiry into ex-nuke weapons plant

Activists asked a U.S. judge Thursday to make documents public from a 27-year-old criminal investigation into a former ...

January 10, 2019

French air force says 2 on missing fighter jet are dead

After a two-day search for a missing fighter jet, French military authorities said Thursday the pilot and a navigator were ...

January 10, 2019

Parts of Austria, southern Germany sink deeper into snow

Heavy snowfall continued Thursday in parts of Austria and southern Germany, with several places cut off and the bad weather ...

January 10, 2019

EU top court adviser: Google can limit right to be forgotten

An adviser to Europe's top court says Google doesn't have to extend "right to be forgotten" rules to its search engines ...

January 10, 2019

3 dead after commercial crabbing vessel capsizes off Oregon

A commercial crabbing boat capsized in rough waters off the Oregon coast, killing the three men aboard and sending a shock ...

January 10, 2019

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and wife divorcing after 25 years

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are divorcing, ending a 25-year marriage that played a role in the creation ...

January 09, 2019

Trump, California spar over money for wildfire relief funds

President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to withhold money to help California cope with wildfires, a day after new Gov.

January 09, 2019

Medieval woman's hidden art career revealed by blue teeth

About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record of her ...

January 09, 2019

Experimental app might spot drug overdoses in time to help

Too often people die of an opioid overdose because no one's around to notice they're in trouble. Now scientists are creating ...

January 09, 2019

US orders refuges to staff for hunters despite shutdown

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is directing dozens of wildlife refuges to return staffers to work to make sure hunters ...

January 09, 2019

Elderly, conservatives shared more Facebook fakery in 2016

Sharing false information on Facebook is old. People over 65 and ultra conservatives shared about seven times more fake ...