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The big oil companies come under attack for earning billions in profits as gasoline prices have soared. Oil executives say their companies' earnings aren't excessive. But lawmakers are talking about reining them in, and a debate is brewing on how to help consumers.

In Missouri, plans to pare 90,000 people from the Medicaid rolls in 2005 have sparked a fierce debate over the morality of the move. Frank Morris of member station KCUR in Kansas City reports.

Six finalists competed in the competition in Fort Worth, Texas, including two from Russia and one from Ukraine. An 18-year-old South Korean was the youngest to win in the contest's 60-year history.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision ordering Maine to pay tuition for rural students at private religious schools has far-reaching consequences beyond the state.

The government is settling a case that will grant billions in debt relief to students, many of them veterans, who say unscrupulous colleges cheated them into overpaying for useless degrees.

Oz led McCormick by fewer than 1,000 votes as state officials conducted a recount after the May 17 primary.

In a largely optimistic speech to commemorate July 4th, President Biden spoke to Americans who feel "exhausted" by what they see as a lack of progress.

A gunman killed two people and wounded four others, including three police officers, before taking his own life on Saturday in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Over a 60-year career, Zawinul embraced many types of jazz, but came to define the style known as jazz-fusion with his influential band Weather Report, and its 1977 hit "Birdland." Zawinul died of cancer early Tuesday.

When James Lacy was growing up, his father prospered by running a general store in rural Texas. But the merchant lost everything in the economic collapse of 1929. Though his dad spent decades paying off debts, Lacy says, he was rich in other ways.