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Updated 1 month, 3 weeks 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, 2 months ago
Confederate symbol on Mississippi flag sparks strong debate

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Emotions are running high as Mississippi legislators consider the future of the last state flag in the U.S. that includes the Confederate battle emblem.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Lottery State-by-State-All

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

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Congress stalls out — again — dealing with national trauma

WASHINGTON (AP) — For a moment, Congress had a chance to act on policing reform, mobilized by a national trauma and overwhelming public support. Now those efforts have stalled and seem unlikely to be revived in an …

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Baylor to review statues, buildings over links to slavery

WACO, Texas (AP) — Baylor University regents are creating a panel to consider whether any statues, buildings or other tangible tributes on the Waco campus reflect a racist past.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Sri Lanka Telugu community fears decline of traditional ways

KUDAGAMA, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's Telugu community, whose nomadic lifestyle has increasingly clashed with the modern world, is facing another threat that could hasten its decline: the COVID-19 pandemic.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Nevada, Energy Department settle fight over secret plutonium

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada ended a two-year legal battle Friday with the U.S. Energy Department over the secret shipment of weapons-grade plutonium to a site near Las Vegas.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
US states reimpose virus restrictions; India tops 500,000

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Two of America's largest states have reversed course and clamped down on bars again in the nation's biggest retreat yet as the daily number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the U.S. surge…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT

As cases surge in US, rural areas seeing increases as well

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
4 Rohingya men killed in gunfight with Bangladesh police

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Four suspected members of a Rohingya group allegedly involved in kidnapping for ransom were killed in a gunfight with Bangladeshi police near the sprawling refugee camps where refugees from…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Police chief: Suspect in shooting that left 2 dead, 1 injured at Illinois warehouse dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Police chief: Suspect in shooting that left 2 dead, 1 injured at Illinois warehouse dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Brazen ambush of Mexico City chief blamed on Jalisco cartel

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Dozens of gunmen believed tied to the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel deployed for a complex, multi-point dawn ambush meant to kill Mexico City's police chief in one of the most braze…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Gunmen wound Mexico City police chief; 3 dead

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A high-sided construction truck and a white SUV pulled into the path of Mexico City's police chief just as dawn was breaking Friday on the capital’s most iconic boulevard and assailants opened fi…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT

As cases surge in US, rural areas seeing increases as well

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
US Forecast

US Forecast for Sunday, June 28, 2020

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
American jailed in Spain was unwitting drug mule, US says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Victor Stemberger wasn't about to ignore the emails inviting him into a multimillion-dollar business opportunity, so he pitched himself as perfect for the job. In a way he was — but for all the wr…