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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
AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EDT

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
House Speaker Pelosi says Ginsburg replacement should have 'commitment to equality, opportunity and justice for all.'

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Pelosi says Ginsburg replacement should have 'commitment to equality, opportunity and justice for all.'

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Supreme Court-Ginsburg,ADVISORY

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday evening at age 87, of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. The diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion became the court’s second female just…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Majority Leader McConnell says a Trump Supreme Court nominee will receive vote by full Senate

WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Leader McConnell says a Trump Supreme Court nominee will receive vote by full Senate.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Ginsburg, a feminist icon memorialized as the Notorious RBG

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Amal Clooney quits UK role over 'lamentable' Brexit plan

LONDON (AP) — Amal Clooney has become the highest profile lawyer to quit an official job over her opposition to the British government's suggestion that it could break international law in the event it fails to agr…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Firefighter dies battling blaze, another fire burns homes

JUNIPER HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The death of a firefighter on the lines of a wildfire east of Los Angeles was under investigation Friday as another blaze to the north burned homes in a small community on the edge of t…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Mexican intellectuals claim freedom of expression threatened

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador denied Friday that his administration has hurt freedom of expression in Mexico, as claimed this week in an open letter signed by hundreds of people, includin…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Jury convicts Indiana man accused of killing, cannibalism

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and eating parts of her body was convicted of a murder charge Friday.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
AP News Digest 6:15 p.m.

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Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Hawaii court hears case on legality of foreign fishing labor

HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Supreme Court heard arguments Friday on the legality of granting licenses to foreign workers in Hawaii’s longline commercial fishing fleet, which for years has been under scrutiny after a…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Official: Florida deputy fatally shoots man with shovel

IMMOKALEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida deputy fatally shot a man armed with a shovel early Thursday morning, authorities said.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Forecasters: 3 storms form in about six hours, including Tropical Storm Beta in Gulf of Mexico

MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters: 3 storms form in about six hours, including Tropical Storm Beta in Gulf of Mexico.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
AP News in Brief at 6:09 p.m. EDT

AP Exclusive: More migrant women say they didn’t OK surgery