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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
At military academies, COVID-19 is the enemy to be defeated

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — As eight Navy midshipmen file into their economics class, instructor Kurtis Swope points to the antibacterial wipes on the desk. “Did you grab wipes?” he asks, then tells each one to take two,…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Trump wades into racial tensions with visit to Kenosha, Wis.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claiming the mantle of the “law and order” candidate, President Donald Trump is offering himself as the leader best positioned to keep Americans safe, a day after Democratic rival Joe Biden assail…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Mexico's 'telfon' presidency loses some sheen but survives

MEXICO CITY (AP) — For a president with a plunging economy and the world’s fourth-highest number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador isn’t doing so badly.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
2 Saudi royals, others officials investigated for fraud

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia's top military commander in its yearslong war in Yemen and his prince son have been removed from their posts along with other officials as part of an anti-corruption …

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
UN chief: Virus reversed fragile progress on gender equality

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened inequality between men and women and reversed “decades of limited and fragile progress on gender equality and women’s rights,” the United Nations chief said …

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Taliban attacked a military base in Afghanistan, killing 3

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban insurgents launched a complex attack Tuesday morning against a military base in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least three public protection forces, an official said.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Absent details, police shooting narratives seek to distract

CHICAGO (AP) — A familiar narrative emerged in the days that followed Jacob Blake’s shooting by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, one seen many times after a Black man or woman is killed or grievously wounded…

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

2 shootings, 2 days: In Kenosha, a microcosm of US strife

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Pandemic brings hard times for farmers, worsening hunger

The coronavirus pandemic has brought hard times for many farmers and has imperiled food security for many millions both in the cities and the countryside.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
75 years later, Japanese man recalls bitter internment in US

TOKYO (AP) — When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, the first thing Hidekazu Tamura, a Japanese American living in California, thought was, “I’ll be killed at the hands of my fellow Americans.” It wouldn't be the …

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
The Latest: Philippines allows partial reopening in capital

MANILA, Philippines — Fitness gyms, barber shops and internet cafes were allowed to reopen partly in the Philippine capital Tuesday as the government further eased quarantine restrictions despite the country having…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
3 found dead in Dallas after man says he killed wife, kids

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police officers found the bodies of three people in an apartment Monday after a man called an alarm company and said he had killed his wife and two children, police said.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Hong Kong begins mass-testing for virus amid public doubts

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong began a voluntary mass-testing program for coronavirus Tuesday as part of a strategy to break the chain of transmission in the city's third outbreak of the disease.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
The Latest: Hong Kong starts voluntary mass-testing program

HONG KONG — Hong Kong has kicked off a voluntary mass-testing program for coronavirus as part of a strategy to break the chain of transmission in the city’s third outbreak of the disease.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Facebook threatens to block news distribution in Australia

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook threatened to