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6:42 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Some Argentina fans shelled out tens of thousands of dollars to follow the World Cup defending champions around the U.S. One group made a 20-hour drive to Tuesday’s opening match in Kansas City against Algeria, living on sandwiches, to save money

6:42 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The rapper Mystikal will serve 20 years in prison for raping a woman at his Louisiana home in 2022

6:37 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Lionel Messi became the second player to score in five World Cups, giving defending champion Argentina an early 1-0 lead over Algeria

5:53 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The U.S. military has attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one man and leaving two survivors

5:49 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The federal government has asked a judge to halt the United States' first reparations program in Evanston, Illinois

5:16 PM on Tuesday, June 16

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

2:13 PM on Tuesday, June 16

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

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 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

12:54 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Cooper Pratt has reached the major leagues 2 ½ months after the Milwaukee Brewers signed the shortstop prospect to an eight-year, $50.75 million contract

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

11:21 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Toronto police have linked multiple shootings, including one at the U.S. Consulate in March, to complex gun-for-hire networks

5:48 AM on Tuesday, June 16

President Donald Trump’s preferred candidates are doing well in Tuesday’s primaries, securing the Republican nominations for U.S. Senate in both Georgia and Oklahoma

5:00 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Court papers say law enforcement officials disrupted a planned attack targeting the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House this past weekend

4:55 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Rep. Mike Collins defeated Derek Dooley for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Georgia

12:43 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Iran’s top diplomat says the tentative deal to end the war with the United States would require Israel to withdraw from Lebanon — a condition Israel has already rejected and that could sink the agreement

9:16 PM on Monday, June 15

Author Amy Griffin has sued a former classmate for defamation

9:08 PM on Monday, June 15

Voters in Washington, D.C. went to the polls to select party candidates for mayor and congressional delegate

8:50 PM on Monday, June 15

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