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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…
Surges for US tech giants lead stocks higher on Wall Street
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook, Apple and Amazon surged in early trading Friday after reporting blowout results the night before, leading major indexes higher on Wall Street. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% in the early going, but…
Police: Girl, 2, shot in Indiana was caught in crossfire
A 2-year-old girl who was
Police: 2 assaulted officers near Confederate statue
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two people were arrested for assaulting officers who were working with a city task force to break up an encampment near a Confederate monument in Richmond, police said.
Global shares mixed after Europe reports steep GDP drop
TOKYO (AP) — Global stock markets were subdued Friday after Europe posted a record drop in economic activity and investors digested a raft of corporate earnings reports.
Judge bans lawyers from identifying Epstein abuse victims
NEW YORK (AP) — The judge presiding over the criminal case against a British socialite charged with recruiting teenage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse said Friday that her attorneys are not pe…
Bahamas, Florida brace as new Hurricane Isaias bears down
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Forecasters declared a hurricane watch for parts of the Florida coastline on Friday as Hurricane Isaias drenched the Bahamas on a track for the U.S. East Coast.
Officer injured, 2 others wounded in Florida shooting spree
A Florida man is in police custody after he went on a 40-minute shooting spree on a Tampa highway and city streets where he fired on at least 11 people, wounding two adults, and injuring a police officer when he sh…
Family of Black man killed by Mississippi police files suit
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — The family of a Black man who was
AP Entertainment Digest for July 31, 2020
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Scores of Zimbabwe protesters arrested, military in streets
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Scores of people were arrested Friday in Zimbabwe as hundreds of military troops as well as police attempted to thwart an anti-government protest, with streets empty and many people hiding i…
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson puts lockdown-easing on hold amid growth in coronavirus cases
LONDON (AP) — UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson puts lockdown-easing on hold amid growth in coronavirus cases.
UK puts lockdown-easing on hold as virus spread accelerates
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson put some planned measures to ease the U.K.'s lockdown on hold Friday, just hours before they were due to take effect, saying the number of new coronavirus cases in the cou…
Afghan officials say Pakistani rockets kill 9, wound 50
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan fired a barrage of rockets across its southwestern border, killing nine people and wounding 50 in an Afghan frontier town, Afghan officials said Friday. Pakistan said Afghan border …
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