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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…

Updated 6 years ago
Pregnant women at risk of death in Kenya's COVID-19 curfew

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Veronica Atieno remembers feeling her way through the dark alleys between the shacks that make up Nairobi’s slums, picking her way past raw sewage and rusty, razor-sharp metal roofing with tre…

Updated 6 years ago
Asia Today: SKorea records 113 new cases; 357 in Australia

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported 113 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, its first daily jump over 100 in nearly four months.

Updated 6 years ago
AP News in Brief at 12:09 a.m. EDT

Extra unemployment aid expires as virus threatens new states

Updated 6 years ago
Officials: Men's rights lawyer killed attorney in California

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities believe a men's rights lawyer shot and killed a fellow attorney in California in the days before he attacked a federal judge’s family in New Jersey and died by suicide, officials anno…

Updated 6 years ago
Today in History

Today in History

Updated 6 years ago
A coronavirus hot spot, South Texas braces for Hanna's rain

HOUSTON (AP) — South Texas — an area already hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic in recent weeks — was bracing for Tropical Storm Hanna to make landfall Saturday.

Updated 6 years ago
Floyd, the San Francisco Zoo's tallest, oldest giraffe, dies

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Floyd, the oldest and tallest giraffe at the San Francisco Zoo, died Friday.

Updated 6 years ago
Texas court says girl stays on life support, pending trial

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas appeals court ruled Friday that a hospital must keep a 17-month-old girl on life support pending a trial addressing the merits of the law doctors invoked to withdraw life-sustaining treatment.

Updated 6 years ago
US Supreme Court denies Nevada church's appeal of virus rule

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court denied a rural Nevada church’s request late Friday to strike down as unconstitutional a 50-person cap on worship services as part of the state’s ongoing respon…

Updated 6 years ago
Lottery State-by-State-All

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

Updated 6 years ago
Hurricane Douglas bears down on Hawaii as pandemic flares

HONOLULU (AP) — The first hurricane to threaten the United States since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is presenting new challenges to Hawaii officials long accustomed to tropical storms.

Updated 6 years ago
The Latest: India begins 1st human trials of potential drug

NEW DELHI — India began its first human trials of a novel coronavirus vaccine candidate as the world’s second-most populous country recorded nearly 49,000 new cases.

Updated 6 years ago
South Korea reports case spike; US states tighten controls

BEIJING (AP) — South Korea on Saturday reported more than 100 new coronavirus cases for the first time in four months, while South Africa announced a surge in infections and some U.S. states tightened anti-disease …

Updated 6 years ago
Vietnam bans wildlife imports, markets amid new health fears

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam announced Friday that it was banning wildlife imports and would close wildlife markets in response to renewed concerns about the threat from diseases that can jump from animals to huma…

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

2020's 1st Atlantic hurricane lashes Texas; floods expected