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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
Hurricane Marco heads for Louisiana, TStorm Laura over Cuba

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Marco became a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday on a path toward the Louisiana coast, while Tropical Storm Laura killed at least 11 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EDT

Trump announces plasma treatment authorized for COVID-19

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Biden says he'd shut down economy if scientists recommended

ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would follow public health advisers’ advice if they called for a national shutdown should he take office and the coronavirus had not abated.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Aunt, grandmother came on fatal shooting scene by chance

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An aunt and the grandmother of a Black man who was shot by police in Louisiana arrived on the scene by chance, as they drove home from a day out.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Police: 3 officers shot while responding to call in Maryland

HYATTSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Three police officers were shot while responding to a call Sunday evening in Maryland, police said.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Kentucky police: 3 shot inside Lexington mall, 1 killed

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Three people were shot inside a Kentucky mall Sunday, and one of them was later pronounced dead, police said.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
GLF--Northern Trust, Advisory

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Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Northern California firefighters dig in ahead of high winds

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Three massive wildfires chewed through parched Northern California landscape Sunday as firefighters raced to dig breaks and make other preparations ahead of a frightening weather system…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EDT

Trump announces plasma treatment authorized for COVID-19

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
UK leader urges parents to let kids to return to school

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s prime minister is asking parents to set aside their fears and send their children back to school next month when schools in Britain fully reopen for the first time since the coronavirus pand…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
The Latest: Trump announces more access to plasma treatment

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says the Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 patients.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Trump announces plasma treatment authorized for COVID-19

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced emergency authorization to treat COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma — a move he called “a breakthrough,” one of his top health officials called “promising”…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Hurricane Marco heading over Gulf toward Louisiana coast

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Marco became a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday on a path toward the Louisiana coast as Tropical Storm Laura killed at least seven people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
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Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Colombia court calls on Uribe to testify in massacre probe

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s Supreme Court is calling on powerful former President Álvaro Uribe to testify in an investigation into three massacres that could once and for all establish whether he had any tie…