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Updated 3 weeks, 3 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
AP PHOTOS: Northeast India recalls 'Stalingrad of the East'

KOHIMA, India (AP) — To Kuozeu Vizo, the landscape was as spellbinding as a rice field, golden and ripe for harvest, but it was her village burned black.

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

Plane carrying dissident in coma leaves Russia for Germany

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Tropical Storm Marco forms in northwest Caribbean, could join Tropical Storm Laura as eventual double Gulf threat

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Marco forms in northwest Caribbean, could join Tropical Storm Laura as eventual double Gulf threat.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Asia Today: S Korea mulls stricter measures as virus spreads

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported 332 new cases of the coronavirus, its ninth straight day of triple-digit increases, as government officials mull unprecedented economic restrictions to slow a resu…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Plane carrying sickened dissident Alexei Navalny leaves Russia for German hospital

OMSK, Russia (AP) — Plane carrying sickened dissident Alexei Navalny leaves Russia for German hospital.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Plane carrying dissident in coma leaves Russia for Germany

OMSK, Russia (AP) — A plane carrying a Russian dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning left for a German hospital Saturday following much wrangling over Alexei Navalny’s condition and treatment.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Ex-CIA chief Brennan interviewed in Russia probe review

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former CIA Director John Brennan was interviewed Friday by U.S. Attorney John Durham's team as part of its inquiry into the investigators and intelligence officials behind the 2016 Russia election…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
David Pecker out as CEO of National Enquirer parent company

NEW YORK (AP) — David Pecker is stepping down as CEO of the National Enquirer's parent, ending a reign that saw the company entangled in a campaign-finance scandal that sent President Donald Trump's personal lawyer…

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

Quarantines, closures: Confusion reigns as schools reopen

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Apology at sentencing deepens mystery of Golden State Killer

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Just before receiving multiple consecutive life sentences, Joseph James DeAngelo, the former California police officer who lived a double life as the murderous sociopath dubbed the Golden …

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Birth of panda cub provides 'much-needed moment of pure joy'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Delivering a “much-needed moment of pure joy,” the National Zoo's giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth to a wiggling cub Friday at a time of global pandemic and social unrest.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
With stretched crews, homeowners join California firefight

BONNY DOON, Calif. (AP) — As wildfires rage throughout California turning forests and homes into kindling, some firefighters are badly short-staffed, and some residents are taking matters into their own hands.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Kansas City police officer indicted on felony assault charge

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City police sergeant has been indicted on a felony charge of third-degree assault after he allegedly kneed a 15-year-old boy on his neck and head and forced his head into the pavement w…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Mexico's famous floating gardens reopen after virus shutdown

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The famous “floating gardens” of Xochimilco reopened to visitors Friday after a five-month lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
California wildfires some of largest in state history

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lightning-sparked wildfires in Northern California exploded in size Friday to become some of the largest in state history, forcing thousands to flee and destroying hundreds of homes and other s…