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Updated 2 weeks, 6 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
The Latest: U of Alabama infections since return top 1,000

ALABAMA — The University of Alabama reported Friday that an additional 481 students have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to more than 1,000 infections since students returned to campus for the fall.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Mexico president tries to shoo away crowds as virus persists

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador loves hugging supporters and shaking hands in crowds but even he appears to be spooked by the country’s continued high coronavirus infection rates, s…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Health experts decry Trump's shunning of virus rules

WASHINGTON (AP) — Public health experts expressed concern Friday about President Donald Trump's largely mask-free, socially un-distanced

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Victims of shooting during Kenosha protests engaged gunman

CHICAGO (AP) — A man known for his love of skateboarding, a Texas transplant to the state and a college student acting as a volunteer medic were killed or wounded this week by a 17-year-old gunman during a night of…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Laura victims may go weeks without power; US deaths reach 14

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — The Louisiana coastline devastated by Hurricane Laura began a long and gloomy recovery Friday as hundreds of thousands of people still without water and power confronted the possibility tha…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Trump, at NH rally, sows fears about 'thugs,' 'anarchists'

LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) — Fresh off accepting the Republican Party’s nomination, President Donald Trump said Friday he was the only thing standing between “democracy and the mob,” as he lashed out at protesters who …

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Prosecutors to seek stiff penalties for cops in Floyd death

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors in the case against four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd intend to seek stiff sentences if the men are convicted, saying in court documents…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Elon Musk wants YOU to build a brain-computer interface

Elon Musk isn't content with electric cars, shooting people into orbit, populating Mars and building underground tunnels to solve traffic problems. He also wants to get inside your brain.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
AP National News Calendar

Business events and economic reports scheduled for the coming week.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Silos packed with sugar burn at refinery in Louisiana

CHALMETTE, La. (AP) — Two 10-story-high silos packed with refined sugar caught fire at the Domino Sugar refinery near New Orleans, authorities said. No injuries were reported.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Head of jewelry theft crew sentenced to federal prison

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles head of a ring that tracked and robbed traveling jewelry salespeople, stealing at least $835,000 worth of goods, was sentenced to federal prison Friday, prosecutors said.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Mexico president attacks environmentalists' foreign funding

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president launched a blistering attack on several environmentalist groups Friday, suggesting they were being paid by foreign foundations to oppose his controversial train project in the …

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
At D.C. march, families decry 'two systems of justice'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. famously laid out a vision for harmony between white and Black people 57 years ago, his son issued a sobering r…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Another 481 COVID-19 cases found at University of Alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The University of Alabama reported Friday that an additional 481 students have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to more than 1,000 infections since students returned to campu…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Owner of Trump hotel in Vancouver files for bankruptcy

VANCOUVER, Canada (AP) — The company that owns the Trump International Hotel in Vancouver has filed for bankruptcy.