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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
Kim directs aid to North Korean town under virus lockdown

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un directed his government agencies to act immediately to stabilize the livelihoods of residents in a city locked down over coronavirus concerns, state media r…

Updated 6 years ago
Homemade bombs damage ATM at New Zealand mall

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Would-be thieves apparently detonated two homemade bombs at a New Zealand mall ATM early Thursday and left other unexploded bombs behind, according to police.

Updated 6 years ago
5 things to know as Hiroshima marks 75th A-bomb anniversary

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — The city of Hiroshima in western Japan marks the 75th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attack on Thursday.

Updated 6 years ago
The Latest: Mexico is nearing 50,000 deaths from COVID-19

MEXICO CITY — Mexico is nearing 50,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19.

Updated 6 years ago
AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EDT

In a horrific instant, a burst of power that ravaged Beirut

Updated 6 years ago
California's growing virus data collection headache

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has stopped removing or adding to a list of counties facing more restrictions on businesses and schools as it tries to determine the impact from an unresolved technical problem with th…

Updated 6 years ago
Mexico inaugurates dam that is flooding Indigenous sites

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated a dam in northern Mexico on Wednesday even though work was symbolically suspended by anthropologists because it is flooding thousand-year-old Ind…

Updated 6 years ago
Mechanical failure, human error cited in Guard copter crash

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Mechanical failure and human error led to the crash of a Black Hawk helicopter that killed three Minnesota National Guard members last December, according to a Guard summary released Wednesda…

Updated 6 years ago
Editorial Roundup: US

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:

Updated 6 years ago
Survivors mark 75th anniversary of world's 1st atomic attack

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — The dwindling witnesses to the world’s first atomic bombing marked its 75th anniversary Thursday, with Hiroshima's mayor and others noting as hypocritical the Japanese government's refusal t…

Updated 6 years ago
President of Venezuelan soccer body Berardinelli dies

CARACAS (AP) — Venezuela's soccer federation president Jesús Berardinelli has died two weeks after he suddenly lost consciousness and presented other health problems in a hospital, the country's soccer federation s…

Updated 6 years ago
Top court rules Brazil must protect Indigenous in pandemic

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The Brazilian Supreme Court ordered President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration Wednesday to adopt measures to shield Indigenous peoples from the new coronavirus, in a vote that came hours aft…

Updated 6 years ago
Georgia governor signs new law to protect police

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday signed into law a new measure providing additional legal protections to police officers, a step that critics say is flawed and out of step with nationwide efforts…

Updated 6 years ago
New Orleans sheriff regains authority over troubled jail

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The sheriff of New Orleans can be put back in control of the city’s long-troubled jail despite still-serious problems that triggered U.S. Justice Department oversight and a 2012 lawsuit, a federa…

Updated 6 years ago
Facebook, citing virus misinformation, deletes Trump post

Facebook has deleted a post by President Donald Trump for violating its policy against spreading misinformation about the coronavirus.