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5:16 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Erling Haaland scored his first two World Cup goals, including one off a defensive blunder, and added an assist in his tournament debut to propel Norway to a 4-1 victory over Iraq in Group I

4:19 PM on Tuesday, June 16

President Donald Trump's remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has turned chartreuse from an algal bloom

4:12 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Vozinha gasped and laughed in shock when shown the number of new Instagram followers he had gained after helping tiny Cape Verde hold off powerhouse Spain in his team’s World Cup debut

4:04 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Cristiano Ronaldo looks to make history by becoming the first player to score a goal in six World Cups when Portugal meets Congo on Wednesday

3:04 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi

2:37 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The Trump administration is pushing back on complaints from Iran’s national team that it was forced to leave the U.S. immediately after its first World Cup match instead of having a day to recover in a hotel, saying that was the plan for the team all along

2:13 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Kylian Mbappé scored twice to move past Pelé and Lionel Messi with 14 World Cup goals, Bradley Barcola added another and France rebounded from a surprisingly poor first half to beat Senegal 3-1

2:05 PM on Tuesday, June 16

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from the Nebraska quarantine facility where she is being held

1:43 PM on Tuesday, June 16

France striker Kylian Mbappé has scored the 13 and 14th World Cup goals of his career to move past Pelé, Lionel Messi and countryman Just Fontaine and into a tie for the third most in tournament history

1:06 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — whose work helped propel artificial intelligence — is stressing in an Associated Press interview that society has no choice but to change in the advent of AI

1:04 PM on Tuesday, June 16

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has visited Haiti, where surging gang violence has left more than 1 in 10 people homeless

12:27 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles has set the world best time in the rarely contested 150 meters at the Golden Spike meet

11:56 AM on Tuesday, June 16

A flight tracking website shows that the B-52 that crashed during a test flight at an Air Force base in California took a sharp turn before plunging to the ground

9:44 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Federal prosecutors have charged 15 people with impeding federal agents during a massive immigration surge in Minnesota earlier this year

8:42 AM on Tuesday, June 16

A Canadian federal judge has rejected Ghana’s bid to get Thomas Partey into the country for the team’s first World Cup match while the midfielder awaits trial on rape charges

8:41 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Police in Chicago say a person is in custody in an investigation of a large cross set on fire in a well-known park

6:04 AM on Tuesday, June 16

The HBO show “Task” features tense standoffs and dramatic moments, but its most powerful scene may be Mark Ruffalo reading a victim impact statement in court

5:48 AM on Tuesday, June 16

An endorsement from President Donald Trump is worth a lot in Republican primaries

4:55 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Republicans were waging their latest fight over party identity in Georgia

8:50 PM on Monday, June 15

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake has shaken central Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least a resident, injuring dozens of people