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Factory farms provide abundant food, but environment suffers

By John Flesher, Associated Press

An industry once based on small, independent farms is evolving into large operations housing thousands of animals under one roof. The change is helping make beef, poultry and pork more affordable. But animal waste from the mega-farms has fouled waters.

El Paso shooting suspect charged with federal hate crimes

By Mike Balsamo, Cedar Attanasio, Associated Press

An indictment unsealed Thursday charges Patrick Crusius with 90 counts under federal hate crime and firearms laws.

Man called largest child porn ‘facilitator’ by the FBI pleads guilty

By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

A man once described by an FBI agent as the world's largest "facilitator" of child pornography websites pleaded guilty to operating a web hosting service that allowed users to access hundreds of thousands of images and videos.

Read the full text of Trump’s 2020 State of the Union

By Associated Press

Read the full text of President Donald Trump's 2020 State of the Union as delivered.

Feds investigate Mississippi prisons after string of deaths

By Michael Balsamo, Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press

Federal prosecutors are looking into conditions at four state prisons after the deaths of at least 15 inmates since late December.

WATCH: Trump unleashes fury over impeachment at prayer breakfast

By Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press

“As everybody knows, my family, our great country and your president have been put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people," Trump said at the annual event.

Ukraine saga far from over despite Trump acquittal

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

It’s only a matter of time before fresh details, documents and eyewitnesses emerge, including revelations in a new book from John Bolton, the former national security adviser.

Trump barrels into 2020 campaign, emboldened after acquittal

By Jill Colvin, Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller, Associated Press

For Trump, there was one overriding message to draw from his acquittal: Even at a time of maximum political peril, it's his Republican Party.

NASA’s record-setting Koch returns safely from space

By Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press

Christina Koch wrapped up a 328-day mission on her first flight into space, providing researchers the opportunity to observe the effects of long-duration spaceflight on a woman.

Kirk Douglas, longtime influential movie star, dies at 103

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

Kirk Douglas, the muscular actor with the dimpled chin who starred in "Spartacus," "Lust for Life" and dozens of other films and helped fatally weaken the Hollywood blacklist, has died at 103, People magazine reported.