Nation/World
Want to follow the latest in world news? Keep reading below for today's national and world news headlines!
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…
US firm pleads guilty to paying bribes in Brazil, Venezuela
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — A major U.S. asphalt company agreed to pay $16.6 million in fines while pleading guilty Tuesday to federal charges that it paid millions in bribes to officials in Brazil, Ecuador and Venez…
Almost 500 pilot whales stranded on Australian island state
HOBART, Australia (AP) — More pilot whales were found stranded on an Australian coast Wednesday, raising the estimated total to almost 500 in the largest mass stranding ever recorded in the country.
GOP Senate candidate defends controversial Ginsburg meme
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Lauren Witzke on Tuesday defended a controversial meme in a Facebook post by her campaign after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
US government executes killer obsessed with witchcraft
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. government on Tuesday executed a former soldier who said an obsession with witchcraft led him to kill a Georgia nurse he believed had put a spell on him.
U.S. government executes former soldier who said obsession with witchcraft led him to kill Georgia nurse
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — U.S. government executes former soldier who said obsession with witchcraft led him to kill Georgia nurse.
AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EDT
'Unfathomable': US death toll from coronavirus hits 200,000
Pence's jet returns to airport after hitting bird on takeoff
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence's airplane struck a bird Tuesday on takeoff in New Hampshire, causing the pilot to return to the airport out of caution, the White House said.
World powers clash, virus stirs anger at virtual UN meeting
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Kept apart by a devastating pandemic and dispersed across the globe, world leaders convened electronically Tuesday for an unprecedented high-level meeting, where the U.N. chief exhorted them t…
Warrant issued for man accused of driving toward protesters
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a man accused of driving a pickup truck toward a group of people demonstrating against racism and police brutality in Virginia after he failed to sho…
Trump expands ban on US money for certain diversity training
President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued an order that he said will expand a ban on the use of federal money for certain diversity training.
House passes government-wide temporary funding bill in sweeping bipartisan vote, averting shutdown threat
WASHINGTON (AP) — House passes government-wide temporary funding bill in sweeping bipartisan vote, averting shutdown threat.
The Latest: Nigeria urges vaccine to be available to all
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest from the U.N. General Assembly (all times EDT):
Attorney: Black man shot by LA deputies wasn't holding a gun
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Black man shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies wasn't holding a gun when they opened fire, attorneys for his family said Tuesday, contradicting a claim that he had picked up…
House easily passes stopgap funding bill, averting shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sweeping bipartisan vote that takes a government shutdown off the table, the House passed a temporary government-wide funding bill Tuesday night, shortly after President Donald Trump prevaile…
Man, 77, charged in 1974 murder of Texas teenage girl
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A man was arrested and charged in the 1974 killing of a Texas teenage girl after nearly 50 years of investigation and the advancement of DNA technology, police said Tuesday.