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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…
Source: Louisville offers settlement to family of Breonna Taylor, who was killed when officers burst into her home
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Source: Louisville offers settlement to family of Breonna Taylor, who was killed when officers burst into her home.
Vietnam sentences 7 for human smuggling to Britain
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A court in central Vietnam on Monday sentenced seven people to up to 7 1/2 years in prison for smuggling a woman who later died in a truck together with 38 other people as they were being tran…
US industrial production up modest 0.4% in August
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. industrial production slowed to a modest increase of 0.4% in August, far weaker than the strong bounce back recorded in previous months when factories were coming back to life.
Pakistan's top court postpones appeal in Daniel Pearl case
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's top court on Tuesday postponed for two weeks the much-awaited appeals hearing against the acquittal earlier this year of a British-Pakistani man and three others in the 2002 kidnapping a…
City to pay millions to Breonna Taylor's mom, reform police
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The city of Louisville will pay millions to the mother of Breonna Taylor and reform police practices as part of a lawsuit settlement months after Taylor's slaying by police thrust the Black w…
St. Louis matches homicide total for all of last year
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A teenage girl shot to death in St. Louis has become the city's 194th homicide victim in 2020, matching the total for all of 2019 with 3 1/2 months still to go in the year.
Diplomats: Roadside bombing targets British convoy in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — A roadside bombing targeted British diplomatic vehicles in Baghdad on Tuesday, the British Embassy and Iraqi officials said. There were no injuries but the attack is fueling concerns of armed groups …
Libya east-based force: 7 militants, foreign fighters killed
CAIRO (AP) — Libya's east-based army claimed on Tuesday that its troops killed at least seven Islamic State militants, including foreign fighters, in a raid on their hideout in the country’s south.
World isn't meeting biodiversity goals, UN report finds
A decade-long global effort to save Earth's disappearing species and declining ecosystems has mostly stumbled, with fragile habitats like coral reefs and tropical forests in more trouble than ever, researchers said…
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Group pushes changes to Confederate imagery at Georgia park
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — An activist group has presented its plans for changes to Confederate imagery at Georgia's popular Stone Mountain Park, including a suggestion that it stop maintaining a colossal sculpture…
Navalny posts hospital photo of himself, plans Russia return
BERLIN (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday posted a picture of himself from his hospital bed in Germany where he's recuperating from being poisoned with a nerve agent, wryly joking about bein…
UN experts decry continued abuse as Syria's war grinds on
GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed investigators pointed Tuesday to signs that Syria’s government continues to perpetrate rape, torture and murder as the country’s nine-year conflict grinds on, while citing possible war cri…
The Latest: Sally to bring heavy inland rains, flooding
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Texas teen charged with murder in shooting of sleeping woman
HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities in Texas have arrested an 18-year-old woman on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old woman as she slept in her bed.