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By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Lionel Messi made his strongest case yet to be considered soccer’s greatest player of all time after finally winning the World Cup. It will never be possible to say definitively even after Argentina’s 4-2 penalty shootout victory over France in the final at Lusail Stadium.

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific says it will stop imposing temporary limits on shipments while it reviews the policy that federal regulators and shippers criticized at a hearing last week. Union Pacific has put more than 1,000 of these embargoes in place this year as part of its

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Jews in Ukraine waging a “war between darkness and light” lit a giant menorah on Sunday night to start the eight-day Hanukkah holiday as tens of thousands remained without electricity and Russia’s nearly 10-month war produced new victims. Dozens gathered in Maidan Independence Square in the capital, Kyiv, at sundown to

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Lionel Messi, wearing a black Qatari robe over his blue-and-white Argentina shirt, kissed the World Cup, shuffled toward his teammates and hoisted the golden trophy high in the air. It was an iconic sight that finally — definitively — places the soccer superstar in the

By JEFF MARTIN and JULIE WALKER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Forecasters are warning of treacherous holiday travel and life-threatening cold for much of the nation as an arctic air mass blows into the already-frigid southern United States. “We’re looking at much-below normal temperatures, potentially record-low temperatures leading up to the Christmas holiday,” said Zack

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “ Avatar: The Way of Water ” didn’t make quite as big of a splash as many assumed it would, but James Cameron’s big budget spectacle still helped breathe life into the box office this weekend. The sequel earned $134 million from North American theaters and $300.5 million internationally

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Capitol riot will make its final public presentation Monday about the unprecedented effort by Donald Trump to overturn the results of the presidential election he lost in 2020. The committee has called it an “attempted coup” that warrants criminal

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press MONTREAL (AP) — There were signs Sunday that negotiators were closing in on a historic deal at a U.N. conference that would be the most significant effort to protect the world’s land and oceans and provide a critical infusion of money to save biodiversity in the developing world. China, which

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s coastal city of Durban has closed its North Beach after three people died when they were hit by a large wave, emergency officials said on Sunday. The Emergency Medical Services “responded to reports of a freak wave that swept a group of beachgoers against the

The crew of the International Space Station is inspecting an attached Russian space capsule that may have been damaged by a micrometeorite. Russia’s space corporation says the crew on Sunday is using a camera on a robotic arm to capture images of the Soyuz MS-22 where a coolant leak was detected last Wednesday. Space officials

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers have held a memorial at Beirut airport for an Irish soldier killed in southern Lebanon last week. U.N. peacekeepers on Sunday stood by 24 year-old Pvt. Seán Rooney’s coffin after it had arrived from a hospital the southern city of Sidon.

After 11 seasons, Cecily Strong has said farewell to “Saturday Night Live.” A few hours before the last episode of the season Saturday, the TV show’s Instagram account posted a cue card saying, “we’ll miss you, Cecily.” The caption read “Tonight we send off one of the best to ever do it.” A two-time Emmy

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian opposition figures called Sunday for the president’s resignation after disastrous parliamentary elections in which less than 9% of voters cast ballots. The mass voter disavowal was a dramatic development for the country that was the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings against autocratic leaders

By SALAR SALIM Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi officials say an explosive device went off in the country’s north, killing at least nine members of the federal police force who were on patrol. A military spokesman says an officer with the rank of major was among the fatalities in the attack on Friday.

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For two years, Becky Mourey pushed the Food and Drug Administration to approve an experimental drug for her Lou Gehrig’s disease. She went to members of Congress and health regulators to make the case for Relyvrio, until patient-advocates finally prevailed. In September, Relyvrio became only the

By ALEX TURNBULL Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Fans are applying their blue, white and red face paint, squeezing into national team jerseys and icing champagne as France hopes that Les Bleus will win beat Argentina to win their third World Cup title. French TV carried live images of the France team leaving its hotel

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentines woke up ready to watch the national team play for its third World Cup title amid a national feeling of unity and joy that is rare for a country that has been engulfed in an economic crisis for years and has one of the

BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi military spokesman says an explosive device went off in the country’s north, killing several members of the Iraqi federal police force who were on patrol. The spokesman says an officer with the rank of major was among the fatalities in the attack on Friday. No one immediately claimed responsibility for

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has defrocked an anti-abortion U.S. priest, Frank Pavone, for what it said were “blasphemous communications on social media” as well as “persistent disobedience” of his bishop who repeatedly told him to stop his partisan activism for Donald Trump. A letter to U.S. bishops from