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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
Kodak

Eastman Kodak will receive a federal loan of $765 million to help reduce the country's reliance on other countries for ingredients used in generic drugs.

Updated 6 years ago
Hanna has gone, but virus threat remains in South Texas

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas (AP) — Some areas hit by

Updated 6 years ago
In the Confederacy's capital, renewed effort to honor slaves

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — For more than 150 years, Virginia's capital city greeted visitors with a landscape steeped in Confederate heritage and dotted with its relics, including a collection of enormous statues to rebe…

Updated 6 years ago
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Updated 6 years ago
2 Russian aircraft suspected of violating Finland's airspace

HELSINKI (AP) — Two Russian military aircraft are suspected of having violated Finland's airspace close to its capital city of Helsinki, Finland’s defense ministry said Tuesday.

Updated 6 years ago
Attention turns to Chicago's last standing Columbus statue

CHICAGO (AP) — A Christopher Columbus statue on Chicago's South Side that was left standing after two other Columbus statues were removed last week may yet be taken down, a City Council member says.

Updated 6 years ago
1st hearing in 'watershed' graft case of Mexico oil chief

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican court held the first hearing Tuesday in what President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said would be a “watershed” corruption case against the former head of the state-owned oil company.

Updated 6 years ago
Warrant issued for man accused of driving toward protesters

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for a 20-year-old man accused of driving his pickup truck toward a group of protesters demonstrating against racial injustice in Virginia.

Updated 6 years ago
Efforts underway in Alaska to remove statues of colonialists

As many in the Lower 48 call for statues of Confederate leaders to be removed amid a national reckoning on race, some Alaska residents are conducting a similar movement demanding statues tied to colonization be eli…

Updated 6 years ago
Racist? French cafe pulls "African," "Chinese" ice creams

PARIS (AP) — The “African" ice cream dessert was topped by a chocolate-covered meringue ball decorated with thick red lips. The “Chinese” lemon sorbet had a yellow meringue head, with thinly drawn eyes.

Updated 6 years ago
Maduro's hold on Venezuela tightens as coronavirus surges

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — More than a year after a young U.S.-backed politician rose up to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the socialist leader holds a yet stronger grip on power — with a boost from the n…

Updated 6 years ago
Tropical storm warning issued for Puerto Rico, Caribbean

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Forecasters on Tuesday issued a tropical storm warning for Puerto Rico and other parts of the Caribbean, saying a disturbance in the Atlantic is likely to soon strengthen into a tropica…

Updated 6 years ago
Person killed in Maine shark attack IDed as New York woman

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Authorities in Maine said Tuesday the woman

Updated 6 years ago
Outside police agencies pulling out of Democratic convention

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin police departments are withdrawing from agreements to send personnel to help bolster security at the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee next month, citing concerns with a

Updated 6 years ago
France's global nuclear fusion device a puzzle of huge parts

PARIS (AP) — A hugely ambitious project to replicate the energy of the sun is entering a critical phase, as scientists and technicians in southern France begin assembling giant parts of a nuclear fusion device, an …