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• The Latest: AP EXCLUSIVE: EPA surveys toxic waste sites

  02-09-2017 23:56
  
  HIGHLANDS, Texas (AP) — The Latest on Harvey-related flooding and highly contaminated toxic waste sites near Houston (all times local):
  
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• US seizes control of Russian posts in San Fran, DC, NY

  02-09-2017 23:53
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States seized control Saturday of three Russian diplomatic posts in the U.S. after confirming the Russians had complied with the Trump administration's order to get out within two days, officials said.
  
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• The Latest: Officials greet Trump as he visits Louisiana

  02-09-2017 23:28
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and Harvey (all times local):
  
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• Upbeat Trump pitches in at shelter for Harvey victims

  02-09-2017 23:22
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump cupped a boy's face in his hands and then gave him a high-five. He snapped on latex gloves to hand out boxed lunches of hot dogs and potato chips. And he loaded relief supplies…
  
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• The Latest: Convention center still houses 1,000 evacuees

  02-09-2017 23:22
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on Harvey and the storm's aftermath (all times local):
  
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• 'I survived': How 1 woman lived Harvey on social media

  02-09-2017 23:20
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Katlyn Perkins' first announcement that something was very wrong at her home in northeast Houston came at 8:19 p.m. on Aug. 24, when she updated her Facebook status.
  
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• UPDATE: Federal audit finds $41,000 discrepancy in Tulsa Housing Authority program

  02-09-2017 23:09
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• Heat has stranglehold on US West, toughening wildfire fight

  02-09-2017 23:01
  
  The Western United States baked through the unofficial end of summer, as temperatures in some parts threatened to peak Saturday at levels not seen in decades and the wilting heat challenged crews battling wildfires across the region, including one that…
  
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• Oklahoma National Guard sends 500 more soldiers to Texas to help in storm relief efforts

  02-09-2017 22:52
  Approximately 500 soldiers from the Oklahoma National Guard deployed to Austin, Texas, on Saturday in support of Hurricane Harvey relief operations.
  
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• Police Find Car On Fire And Missing Tire On Drunk Driving Call

  02-09-2017 22:41
  
  Police responded to a possible drunk driver on Highway 88 and 412 in Inola when they noticed the car was in very bad shape.
  
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• The Latest: San Francisco heat breaks record for second day

  02-09-2017 22:36
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on heat and wildfires in the Western United States (all times local):
  
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• 32-year-old killed in single-vehicle crash near Checotah

  02-09-2017 22:36
  A 32-year-old woman was killed early Saturday in a single-vehicle crash near Checotah, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
  
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• Marion 'Catfish King' Kincaid inspires by earning pardon for past crimes, sharing his story of healing

  02-09-2017 22:30
  
  The road to a governor’s pardon was a long one and meaningful for the Bartlesville-raised "Mudcats" personality. It symbolizes coming full-circle from an early life immersed in drugs and alcohol.
  
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• Troopers investigate motorcycle crash on IDL's northwest corner

  02-09-2017 22:25
  Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers investigated a crash Saturday afternoon on the northwest corner of the Inner Dispersal Loop, according to a 911 dispatcher.
  
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• McCain attends Italy forum before Congress returns to work

  02-09-2017 22:21
  
  CERNOBBIO, Italy (AP) — U.S. Senator John McCain, who has spent the summer undergoing treatment for brain cancer, has attended an international forum in an Italian resort town.
  
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• Veterans Choice health-care program growing in popularity in eastern Oklahoma

  02-09-2017 22:00
  MUSKOGEE — Okmulgee County veteran Jack Flanagin says the Veterans Choice program has been “a godsend.”
  
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• Ginnie Graham: Rock climbing gives blind Tulsan new vision with world competition around the corner

  02-09-2017 22:00
  
  Justin Salas, 24, earned a spot on the U.S. ParaClimbing team and is headed to Scotland for the world competition beginning Sept. 23.
  
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• Rogers County Woman Arrested For False Robbery Report

  02-09-2017 21:56
  
  A Rogers County woman claimed she was robbed at gunpoint when a vehicle pulled her over on her drive home. 
  
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• Correction: Trump-NASA story

  02-09-2017 21:48
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story Sept. 1 about President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA administrator, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Oklahoma Rep. Jim Bridenstine is a Navy Reservist. Bridenstine is a member of the 137th Special Operations Wing…
  
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• Crime, violence dog Mexico as president addresses nation

  02-09-2017 21:27
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Saturday that security is his government's top priority, amid growing violence and that is marring his fifth year in office and despite figures showing significant drops in crime-fighting results.
  
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• 13-year-old says he's running for governor in Vermont

  02-09-2017 21:22
  BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A candidate for governor in Vermont is too young to vote but he's not too young to run.
  
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• Trump Visits Harvey Victims In Houston

  02-09-2017 21:01
  
  President Trump on Saturday is in Texas for his second visit since Hurricane Harvey hit, this time to meet with victims of the deadly storm. 
  
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• 2nd Utah police officer on paid leave over nurse arrest

  02-09-2017 20:28
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A second Salt Lake City police officer has been put on paid leave as authorities investigate the use of force in a nurse's arrest.
  
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• Trump pitches in at shelter for Harvey victims

  02-09-2017 20:26
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump cupped a boy's face in his hands and then gave him a high-five. He lifted a girl into his arms to give her a kiss. He snapped on latex gloves to hand out boxed…
  
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• Unofficial end of summer brings no heat relief in US West

  02-09-2017 20:25
  
  The Western United States baked through the unofficial end of summer, as temperatures in some parts threatened to peak Saturday at levels not seen in decades and wilting heat challenged crews battling wildfires across the region.
  
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• Black, white, rich, poor: Storm Harvey didn't discriminate

  02-09-2017 20:24
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Harvey did not discriminate in its destruction.
  
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• The Latest: Trump meets with Harvey survivors in shelter

  02-09-2017 19:59
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on Harvey and the storm's aftermath (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Trump helps serve hot-dog lunches at shelter

  02-09-2017 19:52
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and Harvey (all times local):
  
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• City struggles to restore water service in Harvey aftermath

  02-09-2017 19:47
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas city that lost its drinking water system to Harvey's floodwaters struggled Saturday to restore service, and fire officials kept monitoring a crippled chemical plant that has twice been the scene of explosions and fires since…
  
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• 2 men arrested in wounding of 2 St. Louis police officers

  02-09-2017 19:42
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities have arrested two men suspected of wounding two St. Louis police officers in an attack that also left a 24-year-old woman in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head.
  
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• Father pleads to 3rd-degree murder in death of daughter, 4

  02-09-2017 19:28
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia father accused of "carelessly and recklessly" waving a gun around a small bedroom with seven children present before it went off, killing his 4-year-old daughter, has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder.
  
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• The Latest: Mayor says LA wildfire largest in city history

  02-09-2017 19:27
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on heat and wildfires in the Western United States (all times local):
  
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• AP Exclusive: Many Houston ultra-polluted Superfund sites are flooded, concerns about toxins spreading; EPA not on scene

  02-09-2017 19:19
  HIGHLANDS, Texas (AP) — AP Exclusive: Many Houston ultra-polluted Superfund sites are flooded, concerns about toxins spreading; EPA not on scene.
  
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• Officer's murder trial paused due to judge's Facebook post

  02-09-2017 19:18
  
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday temporarily paused the murder trial of a white police officer accused of killing a black man as it considers a defense request to remove the judge because of a social…
  
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• Venezuela bars opposition activist from traveling to Europe

  02-09-2017 19:16
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — One of Venezuela's most prominent opposition activists said Saturday that her passport was seized and she was barred from leaving the country for planned meetings with leaders of France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.
  
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• Tulsans Audition For 'American Idol'

  02-09-2017 18:59
  Hundreds of people lined up at Guthrie Green this morning for a chance to sing on the "American Idol" stage. The line of hopefuls stretched for nearly three blocks at one point, some coming from Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Texas.
  
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• Trump pulls back threat to shutdown government over border wall — for now

  02-09-2017 18:56
  
  White House officials quietly notified Congress that the $1.6 billion would not need to be in a "continuing resolution" that was meant to fund government operations from October until sometime in early December.
  
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• Formal investigation opened in French girl's disappearance

  02-09-2017 18:24
  
  PARIS (AP) — A French prosecutor opened a formal kidnapping investigation Saturday in the disappearance of a 9-year-old girl who went missing from a wedding celebration last weekend.
  
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• Spain: Air warning lifted for toxic cloud from Madrid fire

  02-09-2017 17:43
  
  MADRID (AP) — Emergency officials in Madrid have lifted their warning to residents living near an industrial fire to remain in their homes to avoid a toxic cloud.
  
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• German election: Merkel, Schulz gear up for TV showdown

  02-09-2017 17:31
  
  BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her center-left rival, Martin Schulz, are preparing for their only televised debate before the Sept. 24 election following a campaign that so far has lacked a head-to-head showdown between the two leading…
  
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• Sprint to the finish yields a new Appalachian Trail record

  02-09-2017 17:17
  MILLINOCKET, Maine (AP) — A former Boston College cross-country runner has traversed the 2,190-mile (3,524-kilometer) Appalachian Trail in record time after a sleepless, 37-hour sprint to the top of Maine's Mount Katahdin.
  
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• Top political donor demands civility after Trump remarks

  02-09-2017 17:16
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The billionaire CEO of the company behind Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works says he plans to demand civility from politicians he supports after President Donald Trump's response to the deadly Charlottesville, Virginia, rally.
  
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• Oklahoma Lawmaker Circulates Criminal Justice Reform Survey

  02-09-2017 17:11
  
  The chairman of an Oklahoma House committee on criminal justice has launched a survey on violent and non-violent crimes as lawmakers consider changes to the state's criminal justice laws. 
  
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• Guts Church Collecting Donations For Harvey Relief

  02-09-2017 17:05
  
  Guts Church is collecting donations and supplies for those affected by Hurricane Harvey.
  
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• The Latest: Firefighters battle blaze in flooded Houston

  02-09-2017 16:59
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on Harvey and the storm's aftermath (all times local):
  
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• Trump's summer of discontent bleeds into high-stakes fall

  02-09-2017 16:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After a summer of staff shake-ups and self-made crises, President Donald Trump is emerging politically damaged, personally agitated and continuing to buck at the confines of his office, according to some close allies.
  
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• Pope urges Korean religious leaders to counter hate rhetoric

  02-09-2017 16:51
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has told Korean religious leaders to counter what he called the "narrative of fear" and "rhetoric of hatred."
  
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