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Updated 1 month 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 6 years ago
AP Exclusive: Woman is 1st in US to get 2nd face transplant

BOSTON (AP) — For the second time in a decade, a New Hampshire woman has a new face.

Updated 6 years ago
Plane skids off runway in India; 14 killed, dozens hurt

NEW DELHI (AP) — An Air India Express flight with 190 people on board skidded off a runway and split in two while landing Friday in heavy rain in southern India. Police said at least 14 people were killed and 123 o…

Updated 6 years ago
Police say at least 14 people are dead and 123 injured after Air India Express plane skids off runway in southern India

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police say at least 14 people are dead and 123 injured after Air India Express plane skids off runway in southern India.

Updated 6 years ago
Appeals court sides with teen who spoke out against assault

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a lower court was justified in blocking the suspension of a Maine high school student who posted a note in a bathroom to draw attention to sexual assaul…

Updated 6 years ago
Lebanon president says he knew of chemicals at port in July

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese President Michel Aoun knew about the huge stockpile of explosive material stored at Beirut's port nearly three weeks before it blew up, he said Friday, adding he had ordered action be taken a…

Updated 6 years ago
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Updated 6 years ago
Postal Service loses $2.2B in 3 months as virus woes persist

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service says it lost $2.2 billion in the three months that ended in June as the beleaguered agency — hit hard by

Updated 6 years ago
Federal suit filed against Saudi crown prince by ex-official

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A former top Saudi counterterrorism official has filed a federal lawsuit in the United States against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, alleging the royal tried to trap and …

Updated 6 years ago
Plane skids off runway in India, some injuries reported

NEW DELHI (AP) — An Air India Express flight with 190 people on board skidded off a runway and split in two while landing Friday in heavy rain in southern India, an official said. A lawmaker said both pilots were d…

Updated 6 years ago
Virus resistant: World's Longest Yard Sale still lines roads

GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) — For decades, thousands of vendors have fanned out along roadsides from Alabama to Michigan each summer to haggle over the prices of old Coca-Cola bottles, clothes, toys, knives and more at The …

Updated 6 years ago
El Salvador political stalemate a drag on pandemic response

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — For months, the strictest measures confronting the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America seemed to keep infections in check in El Salvador, but a gradual reopening combined with a poli…

Updated 6 years ago
The Latest: 7-year-old boy dies of coronavirus in Georgia

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A 7-year-old boy with COVID-19 has become the youngest known person to die in Georgia since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Updated 6 years ago
Malaysia's Mahathir, 95, forms new party to fight old ally

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Two-time former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad announced Friday he is forming a new ethnic Malay party more than two months after he was sacked from his previous party during a…

Updated 6 years ago
The Latest: President says 2 possible causes in Beirut blast

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the explosion in Beirut (all times local):

Updated 6 years ago
Palestinians say woman killed in Israeli raid in West Bank

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian woman died Friday after being shot in the chest by an apparent stray bullet during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian Health Ministry s…