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Updated 2 weeks 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
The Latest: Biden tears into Trump for remarks on veterans

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential campaign (all times local):

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Mexico identifies submerged wreck of Mayan slave ship

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Archaeologists in Mexico said Tuesday they have identified a ship that carried Mayan people into virtual slavery in the 1850s, the first time such a ship has been found.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
City to pay $12M to Breonna Taylor's mom, reform police

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The city of Louisville will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor and reform police practices as part of a lawsuit settlement months after Taylor's slaying by police thrust the Blac…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Outside investigators look at South Dakota AG's fatal crash

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Tuesday that she was bringing in outside investigators to look into how the state's top prosecutor struck and killed a man with his car, but did not give …

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Mozambique blames extremist rebels for videos of atrocities

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — In response to widely circulated videos showing men in Mozambican army uniforms torturing and killing unarmed civilians, Interior Minister Amade Miquidade said the footage may have been fi…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Vermont city takes step toward supervised injection site

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Leaders of Vermont's largest city have voted to consider creating a supervised injection site for people who use heroin and other illicit drugs to reduce overdoses and get more people into tr…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Officer charged in death of Black man taken into custody

DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) — A police officer facing manslaughter charges in the shooting death of a Black man inside a San Francisco Bay Area Walmart store was handcuffed and taken to jail following a court appearance Tu…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Gaza militants fire rockets at Israel as pacts signed in US

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets into Israel on Tuesday, wounding two people in an attack that was apparently timed to coincide with the signing of normalization agreements…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Louisville mayor says settlement with Breonna Taylor's family includes $12 million payment and police reforms

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville mayor says settlement with Breonna Taylor's family includes $12 million payment and police reforms.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
'Huge rainmaker': Hurricane Sally threatens historic floods

NAVARRE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Heavy rain, pounding surf and flash floods hit parts of the Florida Panhandle and the Alabama coast on Tuesday as Hurricane Sally lumbered toward land at a painfully slow pace, threatenin…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
UN demands all countries enforce UN arms embargo on Libya

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Tuesday demanding that all countries enforce the widely violated U.N. arms embargo on Libya, withdraw all mercenaries from the North African nati…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Mali’s ex-president Moussa Traore, who ruled the West Africa nation for more than 22 years, has died at 83, says his son

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s ex-president Moussa Traore, who ruled the West Africa nation for more than 22 years, has died at 83, says his son.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Mali's former president Moussa Traore dies at 83

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s former president Moussa Traore, who ruled the West Africa nation for more than 22 years, has died at age 83, according to his son Idrissa Traore. He did not give details on the cause of d…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Report: 'Alarming' rates of police and prosecutor misconduct

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Hiding evidence that could prove innocence. Planting drugs or guns at a crime scene. Forcing witnesses to falsely identify a defendant.