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Updated 2 weeks, 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
With 7 dead, California pot ranch is tied to organized crime

AGUANGA, Calif. (AP) — An illegal marijuana growing operation where seven people were fatally shot in a small, rural Southern California town had the markings of organized crime, authorities said Tuesday.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Human rights groups ask IOC to move Olympics from China

TOKYO (AP) — China's repression in Tibet, the status of the exiled Dalai Lama and its treatment of ethnic minorities spurred violent protests ahead of Beijing's 2008 Olympics.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Greece: Fire sweeps through refugee camp on virus lockdown

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A major fire swept through a notoriously overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos early Wednesday, burning through container housing and leaving thousands of people in need of em…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Mexico VW dealership apologizes over Nazi photos

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A VW dealership in Mexico City apologized Tuesday for a photo hanging in its offices that showed a VW bug at a Nazi rally and the automaker pledged to take unspecified “actions” in the case.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Iranian TV: British Iranian dual national faces new charge

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A British Iranian dual national held in Tehran in an internationally criticized espionage case faces a new charge, Iranian state television announced Tuesday, raising fears she could be forced t…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Trump and Biden run vastly different pandemic campaigns

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina caps outdoor gatherings at 50 people to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, but don't tell that to President Donald Trump. He basked in a largely maskless crowd of…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT

Official claims pressure to alter Homeland Security intel

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
The Latest: India records another 89,000 new virus cases

NEW DELHI — India has added another 89,706 coronavirus cases to the second-highest reported tally in the world, and the government is saying schools will reopen later this month for senior students after more than …

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Police vow to work with probe of shooting of autistic boy

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A police department vowed Tuesday to cooperate with multiple investigations of the shooting of a 13-year-old autistic boy by officers in the Salt Lake City area.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
As Indonesia cases soar, medical workers bear the burden

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — While Indonesia has recorded more deaths from the coronavirus than any other Southeast Asian country, it also has seen by far the most fatalities among medical workers in the region, leadi…

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Somaliland opens office in diplomatically isolated Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The breakaway territory of Somaliland opened a representative office in Taipei on Wednesday in a move that has already drawn Beijing’s ire.

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Lottery State-by-State-All

The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Wednesday:

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT

Official claims pressure to alter Homeland Security intel

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
US Forecast

US Forecast for Thursday, September 10, 2020

Updated 5 years, 10 months ago
Neo-Nazi pleads guilty over threats to journalists

SEATTLE (AP) — A Neo-Nazi has pleaded guilty in federal court in Seattle to a charge that he conspired to threaten journalists.