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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
Gold in secret vault is traced to Hugo Chávez's former nurse

MIAMI (AP) — It was 2014 and Venezuela's former treasurer Claudia Díaz was looking for a safe haven to store the unexplained wealth she had accumulated over the years. Then-president Hugo Chávez, who she once serve…

Updated 6 years ago
Man fatally shot at 8-year-old son's funeral; suspect held

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A suspect has been arrested and charged after a man was fatally shot in the parking lot of an eastern Iowa funeral home where he was attending the funeral of his 8-year-old son, who died of c…

Updated 6 years ago
Venezuelan does funerals alone in Peru cemetery amid virus

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Wearing a white robe and shoes worn down by dust, Venezuelan layworker Ronald Marín is the only one who administers funerals in a cemetery far from the capital’s center.

Updated 6 years ago
AP Entertainment Digest for Monday, Aug. 3

If you have questions, please email Anthony McCartney at [email protected]. For up-to-the-minute coverage, visit coverage plan at https://newsroom.ap.org for information. For access to AP newsroom and other technic…

Updated 6 years ago
Vietnam confirms 21 more cases in new virus outbreak

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has confirmed 21 more coronavirus cases linked to three hospitals in the central city of Da Nang, the health ministry said Monday. The country, which had lifted many restrictions after…

Updated 6 years ago
Ukrainian police detain man with explosives at Kyiv bank

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian police on Monday detained a man who threatened to blow up an explosive device at a bank in the nation's capital.

Updated 6 years ago
Greece: 1 hurt as small plane hits shut village coffee shop

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A small training plane crashed into a village coffee shop in northern Greece Monday, injuring the teenage pilot and causing minor damage, authorities said.

Updated 6 years ago
Zimbabwe continues arrests of critics, says opposition party

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's military and police are arresting scores of opposition members and activists after authorities thwarted an anti-government protest last week, according to rights groups.

Updated 6 years ago
New Wisconsin justice sworn in during ultramarathon

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — New Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Jill Karofsky has finished her 100-mile (161-kilometer) ultramarathon after being sworn in mid-run.

Updated 6 years ago
Afghan troops retake prison attacked by IS group; 29 killed

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan forces retook a prison in the country’s east on Monday afternoon, following an hours-long gunbattle a day after the facility was targeted by Islamic State militants in an attack…

Updated 6 years ago
One year after mass shooting, frustration in Ohio city

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Tormented by mind-scarring memories and questions without answers, Dion Green has dedicated his life after the death of his father and eight other people in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, to m…

Updated 6 years ago
Retail rout goes on, Lord & Taylor, Tailored Brands, falter

NEW YORK (AP) — Lord & Taylor, America's oldest retailer, is seeking bankruptcy protection, as is the owner of Men’s Wearhouse and Jos. A. Banks, lengthening the list of major retail chains that have faltered in th…

Updated 6 years ago
Stocks up on signs of industrial recovery, eyes on US talks

TOKYO (AP) — Global shares edged up on Monday as investors weighed risks from rising coronavirus cases against evidence of a recovery in industrial activity in China and Europe.

Updated 6 years ago
Judge decries shooting that killed son, injured husband

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — In her first public comments since a lawyer known for his misogynistic screeds shot and killed her son and seriously injured her husband at their home, a federal judge in New Jersey calle…

Updated 6 years ago
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