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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…
Civil rights trailblazer C.T. Vivian to be laid to rest
ATLANTA (AP) — The nation will pay its final respects Thursday to the Rev. C.T. Vivian, a pioneer of the civil rights movement who helped end segregation across the South and left an abiding imprint on U.S. history.
Witnesses say government airstrike in western Afghanistan kills at least 14, wounds 18
KABUL (AP) — Witnesses say government airstrike in western Afghanistan kills at least 14, wounds 18.
Witnesses: Afghan government airstrike kills at least 14
KABUL (AP) — Witnesses say a government airstrike has killed at least 14 people in Afghanistan’s western Herat province, many of them women and children.
Verdict due in German trial of former Nazi SS camp guard
BERLIN (AP) — As a 17-year-old SS private, Bruno Dey could hear the screams of Jews dying in the gas chamber of Nazi Germany’s Stutthof concentration camp from his post in a guard tower, and watched daily as their …
The Latest: South Africa reports new high in virus deaths
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s confirmed coronavirus cases have nearly reached 400,000 as the country reports a new daily high of 572 deaths.
N. Korea's Kim visits chicken farm, calls for improvements
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a new chicken farm being built in a county south of capital Pyongyang and called for improvements to what he described as an outdated poultry …
2 Mideast countries, world's top virus rates per population
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The small, neighboring sheikhdoms of Bahrain and Qatar have the world's highest per capita rates of coronavirus infections. In the two Mideast countries, COVID-19 epidemics initia…
Daimler lost $2.2 billion in Q2, sees signs of recovery
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Daimler AG, maker of Mercedes-Benz luxury cars and Freightliner trucks, lost 1.91 billion euros ($2.21 billion) in the second quarter as the coronavirus outbreak slashed sales of the compa…
Hearing set in suit over Robert E. Lee statue removal plan
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Attorneys will be back in court Thursday for a hearing in a lawsuit challenging Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's plan to remove a giant Confederate statue in Virginia's capital city.
The Latest: India sets another daily record for virus cases
NEW DELHI — India has recorded 685 virus deaths in the past 24 hours, as well as 444 previously unreported fatalities, bring the nationwide death toll from the pandemic to 29,861.
Emigrants send dollars home to Mexico -- and virus warnings
NEW YORK (AP) — In the weeks he spent flat on his back in his Brooklyn bunk, wracked with pain and struggling to breathe, Axayacatl Figueroa could think of nothing but the small town and the family he had left behi…
Civil rights trailblazer C.T. Vivian to be laid to rest
ATLANTA (AP) — The nation will pay its final respects Thursday to the Rev. C.T. Vivian, a pioneer of the civil rights movement who helped end segregation across the South and left an abiding imprint on U.S. history.
'Squad' member Tlaib may be vulnerable in tough primary
Rep. Rashida Tlaib had been in Congress for a matter of hours when she was
Hurricane Douglas may bring strong winds, rain to Hawaii
HONOLULU (AP) — Hurricane Douglas gathered strength as it barreled west toward the Hawaiian Islands on a track to potentially bring strong winds and flash flooding to the island chain over the weekend, weather fore…
China launches ambitious attempt to land rover on Mars
BEIJING (AP) — China launched its most ambitious Mars mission yet on Thursday in a bold attempt to join the United States in successfully landing a spacecraft on the red planet.