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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
Virgin Australia plans to shed staff under new US owners

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Virgin Australia plans to scale down its operations under new U.S. owners and shed a third of its staff as the carrier adjusts to the pandemic, the nation’s second-largest airline said on…

Updated 6 years ago
Hiroshima survivors worry that world will forget

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — The atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima 75 years ago didn't just kill and maim.

Updated 6 years ago
Protest leader Bush ousts 20-year US Rep. Clay in Missouri

Cori Bush, a onetime homeless woman who led protests following a white police officer's fatal shooting of a Black 18-year-old in Ferguson, ousted longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay Tuesday in Missouri's Democratic pri…

Updated 6 years ago
Lives Lost: Parents hoped baby Kobe would play basketball

TANAUAN, Philippines (AP) — He was heralded in the Philippines as the country’s youngest COVID-19 survivor, a baby who’d become infected with and conquered the coronavirus during his first 16 days of life.

Updated 6 years ago
Voters make Missouri the nation's 38th state to approve Medicaid expansion for more low-income adults

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Voters make Missouri the nation's 38th state to approve Medicaid expansion for more low-income adults.

Updated 6 years ago
Missouri approves Medicaid expansion; Parson, Galloway win

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Voters on Tuesday made Missouri the 38th state to approve expanding Medicaid health care coverage to thousands more low-income adults.

Updated 6 years ago
Times Square advertisers asked not to run Hindu temple ad

NEW YORK (AP) — A coalition of advocacy organizations — including Muslim, human rights, anti-fascist and secular groups — has asked advertisers in Times Square not to display images from a Hindu group that is celeb…

Updated 6 years ago
St. Louis prosecutor chided by Trump wins primary race

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, whose job performance has been lauded by some civil rights activists and criticized by President Donald Trump and other leading Republicans, held off a chall…

Updated 6 years ago
McSally, Kelly move on to set up hot Arizona Senate race

PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Sen. Martha McSally and Democratic astronaut Mark Kelly secured their parties' nominations Tuesday in the Arizona race to finish the late John McCain's U.S. Senate term.

Updated 6 years ago
Ferguson protester Cori Bush ousts William Lacy Clay from Missouri congressional seat his family held for half-century

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ferguson protester Cori Bush ousts William Lacy Clay from Missouri congressional seat his family held for half-century.

Updated 6 years ago
3 shot, 1 fatally in violence on fashionable Chicago street

CHICAGO (AP) — A shooting on one of Chicago’s most fashionable streets Tuesday left one person dead and two others injured, according to authorities.

Updated 6 years ago
Minneapolis commission takes up proposal to disband police

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis commission is expected to take up a proposed amendment Wednesday that would

Updated 6 years ago
'We are no less American': Deaths pile up on Texas border

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas (AP) — When labor pains signaled that Clarissa Muñoz was at last going to be a mom, she jumped in a car and headed two hours down the Texas border into one of the nation's most dire coronavir…

Updated 6 years ago
Asian shares fall on jitters over US stimulus, China trade

BEIJING (AP) — Major Asian stock markets declined Wednesday amid investor concern about U.S. stimulus spending and a trade agreement with Beijing.

Updated 6 years ago
St. Louis prosecutor who charged couple for displaying weapon near protesters wins Democratic primary for another term

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis prosecutor who charged couple for displaying weapon near protesters wins Democratic primary for another term.