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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…
Australia plans big spending pandemic measures, record debt
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government Tuesday will reveal a big spending financial blueprint for the next few years that will drive business investment and job creation while repairing pandemic damag…
Lawyers: Trump can't use job as a shield in defamation suit
NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a woman who claims President Donald Trump raped her in a department store dressing room a quarter century ago said Monday that he can’t hurl insults at her and then cite his job as reaso…
White House nixes tougher FDA guidelines on vaccine approval
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has blocked new Food and Drug Administration guidelines on bringing potential vaccines for COVID-19 to market that would almost certainly have prevented their approval before the N…
The Latest: Michigan issues mask requirement, other measures
LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan’s health department issued a mask requirement and other coronavirus restrictions Monday, just days after the state Supreme Court invalidated a 75-year-old emergency powers law that underp…
AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EDT
Trump, still infectious, back at White House -- without mask
Delta grows into hurricane in Caribbean; eyes Yucatan, Cuba
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Delta rapidly strengthened into a hurricane in the Caribbean Monday, aiming to hit Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula potentially as a major storm before continuing on to strike the U.S. G…
Man escorted off flight after physical fight over masks
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man who refused to wear a face mask on a Utah-bound flight was escorted off the plane in Arizona after he and another man who asked him to follow the rules got into a physical altercation, p…
High court reinstates S. Carolina ballot witness requirement
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a requirement that South Carolina residents voting by mail in November’s election get a witness to sign their ballots.
Delta strengthens into a hurricane in Caribbean
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Delta rapidly strengthened into a hurricane in the Caribbean Monday, aiming to hit Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula potentially as a major storm before continuing on to strike the U.S. G…
Hurricane Center: Delta strengthens into hurricane in Caribbean
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Center: Delta strengthens into hurricane in Caribbean.
John Hagee, prominent megachurch pastor, ill with COVID-19
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Prominent megachurch pastor and conservative activist John Hagee has been diagnosed with COVID-19, his son announced during services at the church his father founded.
Trump, still infectious, back at White House — without mask
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House Monday night after leaving the military hospital where he was receiving an unprecedented level of care for COVID-19. He immedi…
With COVID-19 diagnosis, Trump says 'I get it.' He doesn't.
WASHNGTON (AP) — Now that he has contracted COVID-19, President Donald Trump says he does “get it.” That revelation comes seven months — and almost 210,000 American deaths — is not the first time he has relied on p…
Los Angeles Times executive editor to resign
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Norman Pearlstine plans to resign after two years heading a newspaper battered by layoffs, mismanagement and questions about its commitment to newsroom diversit…
Killing of Black man by transit officer being reinvestigated
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California prosecutor announced Monday that she will reopen an investigation into the killing of a Black man at a train station by a transit officer 11 years ago.