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Updated 1 month, 1 week 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, 1 month ago
Baltimore police officer pleads guilty to child porn charge

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore police officer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to possessing child pornography.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Police: Monk found fatally wounded at North Carolina temple

HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — A Buddhist monk found suffering from a fatal wound while kneeling at an altar was likely struck by a bullet fired from outside the North Carolina temple, authorities said Tuesday.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Soldier guilty in West Point rollover that killed cadet

FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — An Army soldier found guilty of negligent homicide in a vehicle rollover that killed a West Point cadet last year was sentenced to three years' confinement and a discharge for bad conduct, …

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
US offers $5M bounty for top Venezuela judge, Maduro ally

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Trump administration offered a $5 million reward Tuesday for information leading to the arrest of the head of Venezuela’s high court, accusing the judge of taking bribes.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Family demands charges in shooting during Floyd protests

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a man fatally shot at a Minneapolis pawn shop during protests over the death of

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
COVID-19 outbreak reported at Texas federal medical prison

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — More than 500 women at a federal medical prison in Texas have tested positive for the coronavirus, in one of the largest confirmed outbreaks at a federal prison, the Bureau of Prisons said.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Lee descendant urges official removal of Confederate statues

Democratic lawmakers and others urged official removal of Confederate monuments at the center of a politically fraught national debate, saying Tuesday that slow action was leading protesters to try to topple statue…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
EPA finds plastic trash contaminates 2 remote Hawaii beaches

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has designated the waters of two remote beaches in Hawaii as contaminated by trash, forcing the state to address the persistent problem of plastic deposited …

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Ex-student pleads to swatting conspiracy with neo-Nazi

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former Old Dominion University student who targeted his school with a fake bomb threat so he could skip class has pleaded guilty to a swatting conspiracy that ended up encompassing a neo-Na…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
The Latest: Brazil starts tests on 3 coronavirus vaccines

SAO PAULO — Brazilian health authorities are starting a three-month test of a coronavirus vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac.

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
South Africa sees rise in virus cases; Zimbabwe sets curfew

JOHANNESBURG (AP) —

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Police: Vegas man recorded 'thrill killing' and 2nd shooting

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police in Las Vegas say they arrested a man who recorded cellphone video of himself in what a homicide lieutenant called the “thrill killing” of a sleeping homeless man and the unprovoked shooting …

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
DeSantis believes Florida will soon contain virus outbreak

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis expressed confidence Tuesday that Florida will soon contain its coronavirus outbreak and that hospitals can handle the current influx of patients, putting forward a positi…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Nation's largest fuel retailer announces new CEO

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The CEO of Pilot Company, the nation’s largest fuel retailer, announced Tuesday that he will transition to chairman of the board at the beginning of next year and chief strategy officer Sham…

Updated 6 years, 1 month ago
Sanger's name to be dropped from NYC clinic over eugenics

NEW YORK (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Greater New York will remove the name of pioneering birth control advocate Margaret Sanger from its Manhattan health clinic because of her “harmful connections to the eugenics …