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Updated 2 weeks, 5 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, 11 months ago
California inks deal for new system after COVID data backlog

LOS ANGELES (AP) — About a month after California disclosed its COVID-19 tracking system had produced inaccurate case numbers, state officials awarded a $15 million contract Tuesday to a software company to design …

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the Malian president ousted in a military coup last month, has been hospitalized

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the Malian president ousted in a military coup last month, has been hospitalized.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
The Latest: UN to hold summit on post-COVID-19 governance

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council will hold a high-level summit during the annual meeting of world leaders at the General Assembly later this month to discuss “adjustments” to the current international sys…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
A keeper of New Orleans Black culture dies at 73

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sylvester Francis, the founder of the small but highly respected Backstreet Cultural museum that features an array of exhibits from various aspects of African American culture in New Orleans neig…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Gun pulled at protest prompts county to institute curfew

TALLAHASEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida county instituted a curfew Tuesday, several days after a man

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
US seeks to collect more personal information of noncitizens

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced plans Tuesday to expand the collection of personal “biometric” information as part of its immigration enforcement.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
US Army: New leadership at Fort Hood; Guillen probe widens

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Army officials announced changes in the leadership at Fort Hood on Tuesday amid what they said was a widening investigation into the slaying of a soldier at the Texas base that has prompte…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Ex-Malian president Keita hospitalized at private clinic

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the Malian president ousted in a military coup last month, was hospitalized late Tuesday at a private clinic, intensifying fears about the 75-year-old's health after bein…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
CDC directs halt to renter evictions to prevent virus spread

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has issued a directive halting the eviction of certain renters though the end of 2020 to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Pelosi takes heat over visit to California hair salon

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is getting heat over a solo hair salon visit in San Francisco at a time when California businesses are limited by concern over coronavirus.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Kansas man sentenced to 10 years in Oklahoma cold case

VINITA, Okla. (AP) — A Kansas man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in connection with the deaths of two people and the disappearance of two teenage girls more than 20 years ago.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Trump spins baseless tale of ‘thugs’ flying to protests

CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump is recycling a baseless conspiracy theory to claim that recent protests have been orchestrated by powerful people in “dark shadows” intent on undermining his reelection prospec…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EDT

Trump visits Kenosha, calls violence 'domestic terrorism'

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Kentucky's governor will watch Derby from home this year

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — For Kentucky governors, it's a coveted perk — presenting the trophy to the Kentucky Derby winner as a huge national television audience watches. But Gov. Andy Beshear says he won't be in the w…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
AP News Digest 6:15 p.m.

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