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Updated 1 week, 2 days ago

The World Cup final is set, with Messi and Argentina facing Yamal and Spain for the title on Sunday

The best offense. The best defense. The World Cup final is set, and fittingly, a clash of styles awaits. Lionel…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Takeaways: Labor abuses in the palm oil industry

PENINSULAR MALAYSIA (AP) — Palm oil is almost impossible to avoid. It can be found in roughly half the products on supermarket shelves, from Dove soap and Oreo cookies to instant noodles and hand sanitizer. While m…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Court weighs fate of sweeping Missouri abortion restrictions

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A federal appeals court panel is weighing the fate of a sweeping Missouri abortion law, including a provision that prohibits a woman from having an abortion because the fetus has Down syndrome.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
AP News Digest 2 p.m.

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Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Under virus strain, Europe's leaders plea at UN for unity

PARIS (AP) — Struggling to contain resurgent virus infections, European leaders decried a collective failure to vanquish the pandemic and told the U.N. General Assembly on Friday that the time has come for countrie…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Egyptian arrested for smuggling narcotics in box of dates

CAIRO (AP) — Police at Cairo’s international airport arrested an Egyptian man returning from France on Friday with over 600 narcotic pills and two packs of marijuana stuffed into a carton of dates, according to air…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
New measurements show moon has hazardous radiation levels

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Future moon explorers will be bombarded with two to three times more radiation than astronauts aboard the International Space Station, a health hazard that will require thick-walled shel…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
AP begins joint venture to increase coverage of nonprofits

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press announced Thursday the start of a joint venture with The Chronicle of Philanthropy and The Conversation that will expand their coverage of philanthropies and charities and the i…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
The other issues: Pandemic focus at UN pushes out key topics

At the United Nations this week, Kenya's president lamented the loss of animal species and called for measures to combat climate change. Slovenia's president spoke of eliminating land mines, legacies of bygone wars…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Trump hits battleground states courting key voters

DORAL, Florida (AP) — President Donald Trump tried on Friday to chip away at his Democratic rival's support among Hispanic voters in Florida, who could determine the election outcome in this crucial battleground st…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
N. Macedonia: 2 policemen suspended over Roma man's beating

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia’s interior minister said two police officers were suspended Friday over the beating of a Roma man, a form of brutality that rights groups said is a disturbingly freque…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
COVID-19 can't crush human rights, UN gathering declares

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In a diminished spotlight because of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading human rights defenders on Friday urged people in these fractured times to connect through politics — and vote, too.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Breonna Taylor's supporters criticize prosecutor in her case

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Breonna Taylor's family and their lawyers sharply criticized Kentucky's attorney general for the failure to bring charges against police officers in her death, calling Friday for him to relea…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Wall Street gains, but S&P 500 still faces 4th weekly loss

Stocks are solidly higher after shaking off an early stumble Friday, though the S&P 500 is still heading for a fourth straight week of losses amid Wall Street’s September swoon.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
The Latest: Va Gov. Northam, wife test positive for virus

RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says he and his wife have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
The Latest: Barber: Justice for Taylor should lead to voting

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Latest on a grand jury's decision not to indict police officers on criminal charges directly related to Breonna Taylor's death: (all times EDT)