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11:07 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Lionel Messi registered his first World Cup hat trick and moved into a tie for first on the tournament's career scoring list in a brilliant performance against Algeria on Tuesday night

9:42 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

9:42 PM on Tuesday, June 16

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

9:37 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Lionel Messi delivered his first World Cup hat trick and matched Miroslav Klose's career scoring record before thousands of Argentina fans packed into Arrowhead Stadium for a match against Algeria on Tuesday night

8:53 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

8:16 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

5:13 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

4:43 PM on Tuesday, June 16

France striker Kylian Mbappé has scored the 13 and 14th World Cup goals of his career, tied for the fourth most in tournament history

4:06 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

4:04 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

3:54 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

2:56 PM 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

2:21 PM 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

1:15 PM on Tuesday, June 16

President Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies

8:48 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

8:00 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

7:55 AM on Tuesday, June 16

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

12:16 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Author Amy Griffin has sued a former classmate for defamation

12:08 AM on Tuesday, June 16

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

12:01 AM on Tuesday, June 16

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