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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…
The Latest: Florida graduates get augmented reality ceremony
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-- Florida seniors missing out on a live graduation are getting a surprise from their school district thanks to an augmented reality app that makes it look like they are getting their diploma o…
Rise in infections shows need for vigilance as world reopens
BERLIN (AP) — European countries reopened borders Monday after a three-month coronavirus shutdown, although international visitors are still being kept away and there was uncertainty over whether many Europeans wil…
FBI, California will help probe black man's hanging death
LOS ANGELES (AP) — State and federal authorities will monitor the investigation into the death of a black man found hanging from a tree in the Southern California city of Palmdale, officials said Monday following w…
Oklahoma governor seeks larger event for Trump's Tulsa rally
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — So many people have expressed an interest in attending President Donald Trump’s rally Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that the governor said he’s asked the campaign to consider a larger, outdoor v…
FDA approves video game for treating ADHD in kids
BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has for the first time approved a video game for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children.
The Latest: NYPD closes plainclothes anti-crime unit
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Marj Carpenter, reporter who became Presbyterian head, dies
DALLAS (AP) — Marj Carpenter, who pushed international missionary work while briefly leading the nation’s largest Presbyterian denomination in the mid-1990s following a journalism career in West Texas that included…
NYPD closes plainclothes anti-crime unit in nod to reform
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's police department is disbanding the type of plainclothes anti-crime units that were involved in the 2014 death of Eric Garner and have long been criticized for aggressive tactics, Co…
The Latest: Texas tracks upward in virus hospitalizations
AUSTIN, Tx.-- Texas is continuing an upward trend in hospitalizations of novel coronavirus patients, setting a new one-day high Monday for the seventh time in eight days.
Could this latest police shooting have been prevented?
It started off as routine: a man asleep in his car in a fast-food drive-thru. But it rapidly spun out of control when Atlanta police tried to handcuff and arrest Rayshard Brooks for being intoxicated.
Statue of Spanish conqueror removed for safekeeping
ALCALDE, N.M. (AP) — A statue of a Spanish conqueror was removed Monday from public display at a cultural center in northern New Mexico to safeguard it from possible damage and avoid civil unrest, hours before sche…
AP Exclusive: DOJ sets new dates to begin federal executions
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has set new dates to begin executing federal death-row inmates following a months-long legal battle over the plan to resume the executions for the first time since 2003.
Police: No arrests in San Antonio shooting that wounded 8
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Despite days of investigation, no arrests have been made in the shooting outside a San Antonio bar that wounded at least eight people, local police said Monday.
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Justices rule LGBT people protected from job discrimination