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Updated 3 weeks, 5 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
Ex-Providence police recruit alleges race-based harassment

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A former Providence police recruit who is Black endured race-based harassment and humiliation at the hands of his instructors at the police academy before he was dismissed based on undeserve…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Israeli leader denies weaponry linked to peace deal with UAE

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said he would oppose the sale of advanced American F-35 warplanes to the United Arab Emirates, despite last week's historic deal establishing fo…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Mexico president says video shows 'regime of corruption'

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has made cleaning up corruption a theme of his administration, used his daily news conference Tuesday to show a video of two men stuffing stacks …

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Report: Trump campaign's Russia contacts 'grave' threat

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump campaign's interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a “grave” counterintelligence threat, a Senate panel concluded Tuesday as it detail…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Int'l court: Hezbollah member guilty in Lebanon ex-PM death

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A U.N.-backed tribunal on Tuesday convicted one member of the Hezbollah militant group and acquitted three others of involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minist…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Police identity armed man shot by officers at Texas store

WESLACO, Texas (AP) — Authorities have identified a man who officers fatally shot after he entered a South Texas store armed with a semi-automatic rifle and later shot a pistol at police.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Flint, business group settle lawsuit over boy's handcuffing

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan city and a business group have agreed to pay $40,000 to settle a lawsuit over the handcuffing of a 7-year-old boy at an after-school program in 2015.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Zimbabwe court bars top lawyer from representing journalist

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwean magistrate Tuesday barred Beatrice Mtetwa, a top human rights lawyer, from representing a jailed journalist and ordered that she be prosecuted for comments posted on a Facebook …

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Senate panel concludes Russia interfered in 2016 US election

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump, and associates of the Republican candidate who were in regular touch with Russians th…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Ex-Lebanese PM: Family accepts ruling on father's killing

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Former Lebanese premier Saad Hariri says the family accepts the verdicts issued Tuesday by a U.N.-backed tribunal on the killing of his father 15 years ago.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
In a first, Oman's sultan names foreign, finance ministers

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oman's sultan on Tuesday named foreign and finance ministers for the first time, putting officials in positions long wielded by his late predecessor.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Senate panel finds Russia interfered in the 2016 US election

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate intelligence committee concluded that the Kremlin launched an aggressive effort to meddle in the 2016 presidential contest on behalf of Donald Trump as the Republican-led panel on Tuesd…

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
Former Lebanese PM Saad Hariri says family accepts court ruling on father's killing, demands implementation of justice.

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Former Lebanese PM Saad Hariri says family accepts court ruling on father's killing, demands implementation of justice.

Updated 5 years, 11 months ago
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