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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…
Correction: Trump-Homeland Security story
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story August 25, 2020, about President Donald Trump’s announcement that acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Would would be nominated to be the secretary, The Associated Press erroneous…
Testing traps to control lovely but destructive lionfish
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Mali needs to focus on its security, Nigerian president says
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali needs to focus on its security, under threat from Islamic extremists, and put individual interests aside after a coup last week deposed the president and left a power vacuum, Nigeria’s pres…
New effort begins to name Kansas City street after King
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A civil rights organization has restarted an effort to name a major thoroughfare in Kansas City after Martin Luther King Jr., suggesting that three intersecting major routes through parts of…
Law enforcement official identifies suspect in Kenosha shootings as 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse of Antioch, Illinois
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Law enforcement official identifies suspect in Kenosha shootings as 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse of Antioch, Illinois.
Court: School transgender bathroom policy unconstitutional
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a Virginia school board’s transgender bathroom ban is unconstitutional and discriminated against a transgender male student who was barred from usin…
Embed-Map-Tropical Weather-Hurricane Tracker, ADVISORY
TROPICAL WEATHER-HURRICANE TRACKER — Map. The following digital embed shows real-time tracking for tropical storm Laura. It measures the scale of intensity, cone of uncertainty, location path and potential storm su…
Tropical Weather-Laura, ADVISORY
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National Hurricane Center says Laura is now an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane
MIAMI (AP) — National Hurricane Center says Laura is now an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane.
Illinois police say they've arrested a juvenile in at least one fatal shooting during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin
ANTIOCH, Ill. (AP) — Illinois police say they've arrested a juvenile in at least one fatal shooting during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Suspect arrested after 2 are killed at Kenosha protest
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Illinois police arrested a juvenile Wednesday after two people were shot to death in a possible vigilante attack during a protest in Kenosha over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Barne…
US moves against Chinese officials over South China Sea
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Wednesday it is imposing sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for Beijing’s military build-up in the South China Sea. The move is the latest salvo in the U.S. p…
Laura gains power, could come ashore as Category 4 hurricane
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Laura rapidly gained strength Wednesday, raising fears that it could come ashore as a Category 4 hurricane with a 20-foot storm surge that forecasters said would be "unsurvivable” and capabl…
Latin America's evangelical churches hard hit by pandemic
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Some 400 men and women spaced themselves across a sprawling worship hall, praying through face masks with arms raised for the health of friends and family suffering from the coronavirus.
Chief: Still trying to learn how 'dead' woman was alive
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit fire chief said Wednesday that he still can't explain why a 20-year-old woman declared dead at her home was