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Updated 3 weeks, 2 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
Court finds parts of anti-riot law violate free speech

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the convictions of two members of a white supremacist group who admitted they punched and kicked counter-demonstrators during the 2017 “Unite the Right”…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Falwell says he faced "emotional toll" after wife's affair

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Jerry Falwell Jr., currently on a leave of absence as the leader of evangelical Liberty University, has released a statement saying that he is seeking help for the “emotional toll” of an affair…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
National Guard called out after police shoot Black man

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s governor summoned the National Guard for fear of another round of violent protests Monday after the police shooting of a Black man turned Kenosha into the nation’s latest flashpoint…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Person arrested for entering secure area at RNC in Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Several protesters and a person who illegally entered a secure area before the start of the Republican National Convention have been arrested, convention officials and police said Monday.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
U.N. nuclear agency head visits Iran amid US sanctions push

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency arrived in Iran on Monday to press for access to sites where authorities are thought to have stored or used undeclared nuclear material.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Scientists say Hong Kong man got coronavirus a second time

University of Hong Kong scientists claim to have the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
UN cautions that virus plasma treatment still experimental

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization on Monday cautioned that using blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors to treat other patients is still considered an experimental therapy, voicing the concern as a U.S. boo…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
The Latest: Trump says Americans can go to polls amid virus

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on this week's

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
St. Louis couple, in RNC speech, to defend show of weapons

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A white St. Louis couple criminally charged for waving guns during a Black Lives Matter protest outside their home will make the case in their opening night speech of the Republican National Co…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Professor, NASA researcher accused of concealing China ties

WASHINGTON (AP) — A NASA researcher and Texas A&M University professor has been charged with accepting federal grant money while hiding work he was doing for a university established by the Chinese government as we…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
New federal data: fewer kids in US foster care system

The number of children in the U.S. foster care system has dropped for a second year in a row, and a record number of children in the child welfare system were able to find adoptive homes, according to new federal d…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Police shooting of Black man stirs unrest in Wisconsin city

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kenosha became the nation’s latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest after police shot and wounded a Black man, apparently in the back, as he leaned into his SUV while his three chil…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Israeli government faces uncertainty ahead of Knesset vote

JERUSALEM (AP) — The fate of Israel’s fractious coalition government was up in the air on Monday, hours before a critical vote on whether to dissolve the alliance and force new elections.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
The Latest: Spain adds thousands of new coronavirus cases

MADRID — Fearing an even sharper surge in coronavirus infections with the opening of the school year in September, some Spanish regions moved Monday to impose new measures against the spread of the pandemic, includ…