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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: Major Hurricane Delta to make landfall Friday
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Delta (all times CDT):
Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict draws in fighters from Mideast
BEIRUT (AP) —
Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded Friday in Oslo
OSLO (AP) — The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday at 11 a.m. (0900 GMT) in Oslo, with no shortage of causes or candidates on this year's list.
Judo in Japan: Getting unwanted scrutiny for abuse, violence
TOKYO (AP) — Japan is the home of judo, and the 19th-century martial art is sure to get more attention at home than any other sport at next year's Tokyo Olympics.
AP Week in Pictures, North America
Oct. 2 - 8, 2020
Surfer vanishes in suspected shark attack in Australia
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A surfer vanished in a suspected shark attack on Friday off the Australian southwest coast, police said.
Teen charged in Kenosha shootings due back in Illinois court
CHICAGO (AP) — A 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters days after
Battered Louisiana coast braces for 1 more: Hurricane Delta
ABBEVILLE, La. (AP) — Boarded windows and empty sidewalks made parts of Louisiana's Acadiana region look like empty movie sets as major Hurricane Delta roared ever closer to the U.S. Gulf coast, apparently on track…
Scalia 'heir' Barrett may be open to reversing Roe v. Wade
CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court has expressed unease with some landmark rulings, including ones that established a right to abortion, and has suggested in her academic writing t…
Asia Today: Sri Lanka orders closures to contain virus
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan health authorities were working Friday to contain a growing cluster of new coronavirus infections, ordering the closure of bars, restaurants, casinos, nightclubs and spas.
Politics has way of finding Supreme Court eager to avoid it
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court might prefer to avoid politics, but politics has a way of finding the court.
Asian stocks follow Wall Street higher on stimulus hopes
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Friday on hopes Washington will provide more aid to the struggling U.S. economy.
AP Week in Pictures, Latin America & Caribbean
Oct. 28 – Oct. 8, 2020
Venezuelans once again fleeing on foot as troubles mount
PAMPLONA, Colombia (AP) — Eleazar Hernández slept on a sidewalk amid a light drizzle, temperatures that dipped close to freezing and the roar of passing trucks.
UN envoy urges Malians to pull country from cycle of coups
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Mali urged people in the West African nation, who just lived through another military coup, to use a recently agreed to 18-month transition “to pull their country out of the…