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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…
Asia Today: India adds another 83K, nears 2nd-most in world
NEW DELHI (AP) — The number of people infected with the coronavirus in India rose by another 80,000 and is near Brazil's total, the second-highest in the world.
Oxford study: Tokyo Olympics are most costly Summer Games
TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics are already the most expensive Summer Games on record with costs set to go higher, a wide-ranging study from Britain's University of Oxford indicates.
AP source: Man suspected of fatally shooting right-wing supporter in Oregon killed during scuffle with law enforcement
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP source: Man suspected of fatally shooting right-wing supporter in Oregon killed during scuffle with law enforcement.
Ships, boats try to douse ship fire off Sri Lanka, 1 dead
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Ships, boats and aircraft from Sri Lanka and India were escalating efforts to douse a fire raging on an oil tanker east of Sri Lanka for a second day Friday.
Analysis: China's rise takes the world into uncharted waters
BEIJING (AP) — Twice in the 20th century, Japan challenged the West, first in a military-led attempt to become an imperial power and then as an industrial powerhouse. Now it is China’s turn to take the global stage.
Pandemic politicking: Democrats at laptops. GOP at your door
REEDSBURG, Wisconsin (AP) — At a family dining table in tiny Reedsburg, Wisconsin, Arlene Ketchpaw chatted with a half-dozen Sauk County Democrats about how to win over voters, her fellow volunteers staring out fro…
North Carolina kicks off mail voting amid spike in requests
RALEIGH (AP) — Mail balloting was set to begin Friday in the presidential election as North Carolina starts sending out more than 600,000 ballots to voters — responding to a massive spike in requests that has playe…
August jobs report likely to point to a still-slow recovery
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States keeps regaining more of the jobs that vanished when the viral pandemic flattened the economy early this spring. Yet so deep were the layoffs that began in March that millions of …
EPA chief pledges more cleanups, less focus on climate
Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler on Thursday defended the Trump administration's record on protecting the nation's air and water and said a second term would bring a greater focus on pollution c…
US paper says reporter was held in China's Inner Mongolia
BEIJING (AP) — An American newspaper says one of its journalists was detained and then expelled from China’s Inner Mongolia region while covering tensions over a new policy that reduces the use of the Mongolian lan…
AP Week in Pictures, Latin America & Caribbean
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2nd crew member, dead cows found after ship sank off Japan
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese rescuers found the second crew member and multiple dead cows Friday in waters where a livestock ship capsized and is believed to have sunk during stormy weather two days earlier, coast guard o…
Bahrain to allow Israel flights to UAE over its airspace
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain will allow “all flights coming to and departing from the United Arab Emirates” to cross through the island kingdom's airspace — a statement apparently allowing Israeli fli…
Ships, boats from Sri Lanka, India try to douse tanker fire
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Ships, boats and aircraft from Sri Lanka and India were escalating efforts to douse a fire raging on an oil tanker east of Sri Lanka for a second day Friday.
Mexico downplays coronavirus cases among medical personnel
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials on Thursday downplayed the country’s rate of coronavirus infections and deaths among medical personnel, appearing to dispute reports this week that Mexico had the highest rate i…