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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
2 Keystone XL pipeline workers get virus, but work continues

BILLINGS, Mont, (AP) — Two people working on the Keystone XL oil pipeline have tested positive for the coronavirus in northern Montana, but the company said Thursday that construction work on the disputed project w…

Updated 6 years ago
US health agency relaxes travel advice for several countries

NEW YORK (AP) — If Taiwan or Greenland is in your travel plans, U.S. public health officials say you can go ahead and pack your bags.

Updated 6 years ago
Embed-Map-Medicaid-Expansion, ADVISORY

MEDICAID-EXPANSION — Map. This digital embed shows which states have and have not expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act. This map will updated as events warrant. Source: Kaiser Family Foundati…

Updated 6 years ago
Man, apparently armed, holds four hostages at French bank

PARIS (AP) — A man apparently armed with a revolver took half a dozen people hostage at a bank in the port city of Le Havre on Thursday, police said.

Updated 6 years ago
NYC begins registering travelers at COVID-19 checkpoints

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City opened new traveler checkpoints Thursday to register visitors and residents returning from

Updated 6 years ago
'Worst nightmare': Laid-off workers endure loss of $600 aid

An unemployed makeup artist with two toddlers and a disabled husband needs help with food and rent. A hotel manager says his unemployment has deepened his anxiety and kept him awake at night. A dental hygienist, pr…

Updated 6 years ago
The Latest: Lebanese military to question officials on blast

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

Updated 6 years ago
4 poultry plan execs indicted after 2019 immigration raid

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Four executives from two Mississippi poultry processing plants have been indicted on federal charges tied to one of the largest workplace immigration raids in the U.S. in the past decade.

Updated 6 years ago
'My worst nightmare': Laid-workers endure loss of $600 aid

An unemployed makeup artist with two toddlers and a disabled husband needs help with food and rent. A hotel manager says his unemployment has deepened his anxiety and kept him awake at night. A dental hygienist, pr…

Updated 6 years ago
Capitol negotiators trade broadsides on stalled virus aid

WASHINGTON (AP) — The rival sides in bumpy congressional negotiations on a huge COVID-19 relief package exchanged public broadsides rather than constructive concessions Thursday as they stumbled toward a self-impos…

Updated 6 years ago
In devastated Beirut, French leader offers comfort and a hug

BEIRUT (AP) — It was one of the most powerful moments of Emmanuel Macron’s lightning visit to devastated Beirut: confronted by a distraught woman in a sea of enraged residents, the French leader stopped and offered…

Updated 6 years ago
The Latest: US deaths predicted at nearly 300,000 by Dec. 1

SEATTLE — A widely cited University of Washington model predicts U.S. deaths from COVID-19 will reach nearly 300,000 by Dec. 1.

Updated 6 years ago
Egypt, Greece sign maritime deal to counter Libya-Turkey one

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt and Greece on Thursday signed a maritime deal that sets the sea boundary between the two countries and demarcates an exclusive economic zone for oil and gas drilling rights.

Updated 6 years ago
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tests positive ahead of Trump visit

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, an early advocate among Republicans of wearing masks and other pandemic precautions, tested positive Thursday for the coronavirus just ahead of a planned meeting with Pr…

Updated 6 years ago
Back-to-back suits seek to dissolve NRA, its charitable arm

New York’s attorney general sued the National Rifle Association on Thursday, seeking to put the powerful gun advocacy organization out of business over allegations that high-ranking executives diverted millions of …