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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
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
The last surviving KKK member convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls has died in prison

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The last surviving KKK member convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls has died in prison.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Isolate on arrival: NYC region is latest to try quarantine

Welcome to New York! Now don’t come near us for two weeks.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
The Latest: Florida bans alcohol at bars as virus cases soar

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida banned alcohol consumption at its bars after its daily confirmed coronavirus cases neared 9,000, almost double the previous record set just two days ago.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Police not treating Glasgow stabbings as terrorism

LONDON (AP) — A male suspect stabbed and wounded a police officer before he was shot dead in Glasgow on Friday. Authorities are not treating the incident that left five other men wounded as terrorism, Scottish Firs…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Wisconsin woman wants burn attackers to know they hurt her

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A biracial Wisconsin woman who says a group of white men set her on fire while she was driving wants her attackers to know they hurt her but hopes they will improve themselves.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
George Nader, a key Mueller report witness, gets minimum 10-year sentence in child sex case

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — George Nader, a key Mueller report witness, gets minimum 10-year sentence in child sex case.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Opposition activists in Zimbabwe accused of lying get bail

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s High Court on Friday granted bail to three young female opposition activists who assert they were tortured and sexually assaulted by state agents but were then arrested for allege…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Police in Scotland say a stabbing incident in Glasgow that wounded several people not being treated as terrorism

LONDON (AP) — Police in Scotland say a stabbing incident in Glasgow that wounded several people not being treated as terrorism.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
States retreat as new virus cases hit an all-time high in US

Texas and Florida clamped down on bars again Friday in the nation's biggest retreat yet as a surge across the South and West sent the number of confirmed new coronavirus infections per day in the U.S. to an all-tim…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Animal cruelty tip leads to caged toddler, drugs, guns

PARIS, Tenn. (AP) — Three people are facing a multitude of charges after police found a caged toddler in a filthy Tennessee mobile home that also contained dogs, rodents and snakes, authorities said Friday.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
White man called police on Black and Hispanic men at marina

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — A social media video showing a white man calling the police on a group of Black and Hispanic men in Connecticut has prompted a police investigation and is drawing comparisons to a similar inc…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Florida bans bar alcohol consumption as coronavirus spikes

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida banned alcohol consumption at its bars Friday as its daily confirmed

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
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Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Council advances plan to dismantle Minneapolis Police Dept.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved a proposal to change the city charter to allow the police department to be dismantled, following widespread criticism of law enforcemen…