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8:15 PM on Friday, June 5

FIFA has announced that it will now allow fans to bring their own water bottles to some stadiums during the World Cup, adjusting a policy that had barred spectators from bringing refillable water bottles into the tournament’s 16 stadiums across North America, including some with limited or no shade from the sun

7:49 PM on Friday, June 5

The Los Angeles Dodgers have unveiled a permanent display honoring LGBTQ+ trailblazers and former players for the team Glenn Burke and Billy Bean, who were the first two major leaguers to say they were gay

7:38 PM on Friday, June 5

Matt Chapman joined some select San Francisco baseball company — including Willie Mays — with his massive day at the plate

6:38 PM on Friday, June 5

California Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui has advanced to the November ballot after facing a reelection challenge from a younger Democrat

6:27 PM on Friday, June 5

Argentina is expanding its investigation into a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship

6:25 PM on Friday, June 5

The U.N. food agency says millions of people are being pushed into acute hunger by the Iran war, as it warned would happen if the conflict escalated and oil prices remained high

6:22 PM on Friday, June 5

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6:09 PM on Friday, June 5

President Donald Trump is keeping open the possibility of speaking directly with Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te— even after Beijing has publicly urged him not to

5:56 PM on Friday, June 5

Chris Richards is training with the U.S. in a positive sign for the top American defender as he tries to make it back in time for the World Cup

5:37 PM on Friday, June 5

Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey said there’s no talk of a merger with the Big Ten and called the notion that the SEC wants to form a super league as “not consistent with the truth.”

5:35 PM on Friday, June 5

The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles says it has opened “multiple election fraud investigations” related to California’s elections and sent a prosecutor to the county’s vote-counting center

4:21 PM on Friday, June 5

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is concerned that a new factory isn’t expected to start work for more than a year on mitigating the New World screwworm fly infestation in his state

4:14 PM on Friday, June 5

Members of the Iranian World Cup soccer team have been granted U.S. visas, clearing them to enter the country ahead of their first two matches near Los Angeles this month

12:57 PM on Friday, June 5

Inflation is rising again, squeezing budgets and making essentials harder to afford

12:15 PM on Friday, June 5

Denver Broncos linebacker Jonathon Cooper has been arrested on domestic violence charges

11:35 AM on Friday, June 5

A Los Angeles jury has awarded $176 million for the hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers struck in a crosswalk by a California socialite

11:26 AM on Friday, June 5

A white police officer in Connecticut who fatally shot a Black man suffering a mental health crisis has made his first court appearance on a manslaughter charge

7:19 AM on Friday, June 5

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration policy that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to enter and stay in the U.S. The judge criticized the policy for putting immigrants' lives in "indeterminate legal limbo" and accused the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of ignoring the law

2:56 AM on Friday, June 5

Far from its European homeland, Bosnia and Herzegovina has zealous fans in the American Midwest as it prepares for its second World Cup

2:06 AM on Friday, June 5

Two corporations bid on a handful of leases during the latest oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge