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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
Scarce medical oxygen worldwide leaves many gasping for life

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s best hope for coronavirus patients lies inside a neglected yellow shed on the grounds of its main hospital: an oxygen plant that has never been turned on.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
AP News Digest 4 a.m.

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

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

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
The Latest: New daily US cases surge to highest in 2 months

New cases of the coronavirus in the United States have surged to the highest level in two months.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
The Arctic is on fire: Siberian heat wave alarms scientists

MOSCOW (AP) — The Arctic is feverish and on fire — at least parts of it are. And that’s got scientists worried about what it means for the rest of the world.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Asia shares mixed after US rally despite rising virus fears

TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Wednesday following another rally on Wall Street, tempered by fears over surging coronavirus cases in various parts of the world.

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

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

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Roadside bombing kills 6 civilians in northern Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A roadside bombing killed at least six Afghan civilians traveling in a rickshaw in a northern province, an official said Wednesday. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
The Latest: S. Africa records highest daily toll of 111 dead

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has recorded its highest daily death toll from the coronavirus: 111.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
China tames new outbreak but elsewhere virus cases surge

BEIJING (AP) — China appears to have tamed a new outbreak of the coronavirus in Beijing, once again demonstrating its ability to quickly mobilize vast resources by testing nearly 2.5 million people in 11 days.

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Election 2020-New York, ADVISORY

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Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Historian compares civil rights protests, then and now

Douglas Brinkley, a Rice University history professor and author, whose works include books about the late civil rights icons Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., discusses differences between the 1960s civil…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Syria reports Israeli raids on central, south military posts

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian air defenses responded to Israeli attacks on military posts in a central province early on Wednesday, shortly after similar attacks in the south killed two soldiers, the defense minist…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
Removal of slavery advocate statue begins in S. Carolina

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Several hundred people gathered in Marion Square, in the historic South Carolina city of Charleston, early Wednesday to watch the removal of a statue of former vice president and slavery adv…

Updated 6 years, 2 months ago
AP Deleg Count-Dem States, 7th Add,400

Rice +- Sestak +- Sloan +- Steinman +-