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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
Virus vanguard: Cape Town learned painful lessons early on

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — When Cape Town emerged as Africa’s first coronavirus hot spot, Dr. Abu Mowlana was surprised by the fear that broke out among his colleagues.

Updated 6 years ago
Lottery State-by-State

The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Tuesday:

Updated 6 years ago
AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT

States resist mask rules as Midwest virus uptick stirs alarm

Updated 6 years ago
Feds launch Minnesota office on missing Indigenous cases

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ivanka Trump and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt visited a Minneapolis suburb on Monday to open an office dedicated to investigating cold cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous people…

Updated 6 years ago
Virus exacts a heavy toll in Queens neighborhood of Corona

NEW YORK (AP) — Damiana Reyes is back at work at a busy Manhattan hair salon, making highlights, blowouts and extensions. But her mind often drifts to her father, with whom she lived in Queens, before he succumbed …

Updated 6 years ago
Cleanup from Hanna spurs fear amid COVID-19 surge in Texas

WESLACO, Texas (AP) — As recovery and cleanup efforts got underway Monday in South Texas in the wake of a downgraded Hanna, worried residents confronted the prospect of undertaking the effort amid a surge in corona…

Updated 6 years ago
N Korea's Kim boasts of his nukes amid stalled talks with US

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea leader Kim Jong Un said his country’s hard-won nuclear weapons were a solid security guarantee and a “reliable, effective” deterrent that could prevent a second Korean War, sta…

Updated 6 years ago
Head of China CDC gets injected with experimental vaccine

BEIJING (AP) — The head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention says he has been injected with an experimental coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to persuade the public to follow suit when one is ap…

Updated 6 years ago
NASCAR banks on minority drivers to broaden sport's exposure

Rajah Caruth liked the animated autos of “Cars” as a kid, got hooked on the race scene after a trip to the track and sharpened his driving skills as a teen via online racing.

Updated 6 years ago
Virus-linked hunger tied to 10,000 child deaths each month

HOUNDE, Burkina Faso (AP) — The lean season is coming for Burkina Faso’s children. And this time, the long wait for the harvest is bringing a hunger more ferocious than most have ever known.

Updated 6 years ago
New statues stoke sensitivity between South Korea, Japan

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A pair of new statues in South Korea of a man kneeling in front of a girl symbolizing a victim of sexual slavery by Japan’s wartime military is the latest subject of diplomatic sensitivity…

Updated 6 years ago
Volunteers came to the rescue as virus raged in Kyrgyzstan

MOSCOW (AP) — When his mother began deteriorating from the coronavirus two weeks ago, Bektour Iskender knew that hospitals in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, were full. So he turned to Twitter for advice.

Updated 6 years ago
Vietnam locks down its 3rd largest city as virus cases grow

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam on Tuesday locked down its third-largest city for two weeks after 22 cases of COVID-19 were found linked to a hospital, the government said.

Updated 6 years ago
Malaysia's ex-PM Najib guilty in 1st trial for 1MDB looting

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A court sentenced former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to serve up to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of crimes involving the multibillion-dollar looting of a state …

Updated 6 years ago
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT

States resist mask rules as Midwest virus uptick stirs alarm