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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…
AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EDT
2 shootings, 2 days: In Kenosha, a microcosm of US strife
Mexico City's 2nd oldest church burns amid homeless takeover
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities promised Monday to erect a barricade around Mexico City’s second oldest church after a weekend fire damaged the tower, choir, an organ and stained glass.
Planes, pizza and Cher: Biden resumes campaign travel
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Joe Biden opened the first week of the general-election campaign with a morning flight to a must-win battleground state where he delivered a blistering speech against his rival, President Donald T…
Visitation to begin again at federal prisons in October
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal Bureau of Prisons will begin allowing inmates to have visitors again in October, almost seven months after visits were suspended at the 122 federal prisons across the U.S., according t…
Liberty announces investigation into Falwell's tenure
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Liberty University is opening an independent investigation into Jerry Falwell Jr.'s tenure as president, a wide-ranging inquiry that will include financial, real estate and legal matters, the e…
US wildlife officials aim to remove wolf protections in 2020
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Trump administration plans to lift endangered species protections for gray wolves across most of the nation by the end of the year, the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service…
Guilty plea in Hawaii woman's lobbying of Trump officials
HONOLULU (AP) — An American consultant pleaded guilty Monday in an illicit lobbying effort to get the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investme…
Pilots, crew bail out of Navy plane before crash in Virginia
BLOXOM, Va. (AP) — The U.S. Navy said one of its aircraft crashed Monday afternoon on Virginia's Eastern Shore, but the two pilots and two crew members onboard were able to safely bail out.
Guinea president to seek 3rd term despite opposition
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinean President Alpha Conde's party announced on state television late Monday that he will seek another term in office, becoming the second West African leader this month to say term limits…
Attorneys argue over ads targeting Boy Scouts abuse victims
DOVER, Del. (AP) — The judge overseeing the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy is mulling a request to address what attorneys for the BSA claim are misleading and confusing advertisements from law firms trying to sol…
Migrants detained in Louisiana plead for help after storm
HOUSTON (AP) — Inside a sweltering housing unit with no power and a stench of human waste, men at one Louisiana immigration detention center pounded on the windows and pleaded to be let outside. It had been nearly …
Venezuela's Maduro pardons dozens of political opponents
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Venezuelan government said Monday that it had pardoned more than 100 people, including dozens of political opponents who are in prison, have taken refuge in foreign embassies in Caraca…
Agency denies critical habitat for endangered bumblebee
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Federal regulators said Monday they would not designate critical habitat for the first bee species in the continental U.S. to be listed as endangered, a move that environmentalists said …
Administration: 70% of relief payments to the dead recovered
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says that it has recovered nearly 70% of the government relief payments that went to dead people.
AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EDT
2 shootings, 2 days: In Kenosha, a microcosm of US strife