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Lionel Messi's father has died at 68 at a clinic in Rosario. He worked in a steel factory, and when his 10-year-old son was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency the family could not afford to treat, he went looking for a club that would pay for the medicine. Barcelona stalled. He said he was taking the boy back to Argentina. That afternoon a director signed a contract on a table napkin.

An avalanche swept a ten-person team off Broad Peak around midday Thursday. Nirmal Purja's company says he and nine others were killed. Four bodies have been found, three recovered in weather that grounded helicopters. The team ranged from a woman who had summited Everest and K2 to a 39-year-old who closed her Pilates studio this year to start climbing.

Chad Williams, 24, opened fire in and around the In-N-Out on Blue Lakes Boulevard on Saturday afternoon, killing three and wounding seven before killing himself. Police say an armed customer in the drive-thru line and an off-duty Idaho State Police trooper both returned fire, diverting him. A motive has still not been established.

Under subpoena from Rand Paul, Anthony Fauci declined to answer anything. Republicans argue Biden's preemptive pardon removed his prosecution risk and therefore his right to silence. His lawyers note the pardon is retroactive — it wouldn't cover a false statement made at Wednesday's hearing. A contempt vote is set for August 5.

A magnitude 6.8 quake struck Kyushu on Tuesday afternoon. Japan's building codes largely held: the shaking itself did not flatten Kumamoto City. Most of the dead were killed by what came after — a gas explosion that tore through the Aeon Mall an hour later, and a factory chimney that came down. The toll has passed 28 and rescuers are working in summer heat.

A red Chevrolet Silverado left the Cicero Avenue bridge at about 2:16 a.m. and landed in a rail yard in Bedford Park. Vanessa Morales was 14 and had freshman orientation that morning. CPD said it terminated its pursuit — and a radio-traffic reconstruction shows that was true of a chase that ended 90 minutes earlier. A second pursuit, which CPD was leading, was still behind the truck when it went over.

Catherine Palaia was driving south through Milford on July 12 when a wheel separated from a northbound Ford F-250, struck several vehicles, cleared the concrete median and hit her SUV. Connecticut State Police still have not determined what caused the separation, and no charges have been announced. Wheel-off crashes are rare, preventable and almost always traceable to maintenance.

Police say two groups exchanged gunfire at Seattle Center, striking seven people and killing three — one of them a participant, not a bystander. A 15-year-old has now been charged with assault, not homicide, and preliminary ballistics indicate his gun did not fire the fatal rounds. A third shooter is unidentified. And on Thursday the police chief resigned.

A preliminary hearing in Los Angeles is deciding whether the singer, David Anthony Burke, stands trial for the murder of the 14-year-old. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. This week detectives described phone records, DNA evidence and a 2024 welfare check.

Roughly 70 million people are under heat advisories, with temperatures above 100 degrees from Dallas to North Dakota. The number that actually predicts harm isn't the afternoon high — it's how little the temperature falls overnight.

An online campaign accusing FIFA of favoring Argentina and Lionel Messi closed with more than 23 million signatures, one of the most-signed petitions ever recorded. It carries no legal or sporting weight — and the officiating in the final Argentina lost to Spain cut mostly the other way.

She taught literacy in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, marched against the Vietnam War and spent 35 years in Boston public school classrooms. She was also Ben and Casey Affleck's mother. Her family announced her death this week — she died on June 2.

The imprisoned music mogul was moved to segregated housing at a New Jersey federal prison after an altercation with a fellow inmate, according to multiple accounts. The Bureau of Prisons declined to confirm the incident, and it remains unclear whether the confinement is a short-term measure or something longer.

A Disneyland employee threw his keys and walkie-talkie into the water, removed his shirt and jumped into the Rivers of America in front of guests on a 90-degree afternoon. Disney says he was not hurt and that it is investigating.

The House has passed a bill to make daylight saving time permanent. The trade-off is later winter sunsets — but also much later winter sunrises. Our map estimates the latest morning each state would face, from before 8 a.m. in the Deep South to well after 9 a.m. across the northern tier.

When a transmission line faulted in Northern Virginia's Data Center Alley, more than 3 GW of data-center demand dropped off PJM at once — roughly 3% of the grid's load — sending a voltage and frequency disturbance rippling from Washington to Chicago. No one lost power, but it doubled a warning grid operators got just two years ago.

Federal authorities say Lorenzo Thompson, a Jamaican citizen, overstayed a 2021 visa by nearly five years. His union and supporters say he has a pending asylum case and valid work authorization. Under U.S. immigration law, both descriptions can be true at once.

Bertha is done. After coming ashore first in southeastern Louisiana and again near the Texas line, the season's second named storm weakened into a trough of low pressure northwest of Houston. The National Hurricane Center issued its final advisory Thursday night, and impacts across the Gulf Coast were mostly minor.

A preliminary NTSB report lays out how a Delta flight and an American flight ended up on a collision course on June 20 — an erroneous cockpit warning that paused a takeoff, dark runway warning lights, and a controller who lost track of who he had cleared.

Michigan has reported the first two US deaths in the cyclospora outbreak, both in people with significant underlying conditions. The state has logged 11,234 cases and 193 hospitalizations on its own. The federal tally everyone quotes hasn't been updated since July 16 and still lists no deaths. Here's what's confirmed, what's lagging, and what to do.

The five died in the Scioto River near Columbus after one swimmer began to struggle and the others tried to help. A passing pastor, who sensed the spot was dangerous, believes he captured the group in what may be 'the last picture' of them alive.