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Midfielder Timmy Tillman cut from US roster for Copa America

Jun. 14, 2024 11:01 AM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — Midfielder Timmy Tillman was cut from the United States roster for the Copa America on Friday, getting the team down to the 26-player limit for the tournament. Tillman was in the U.S. training camp for the past two weeks but the 25-year-old didn't play in a pair of...

US views Copa America as last big challenge before hosting 2026 World Cup

Jun. 13, 2024 14:30 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — In a region that provides few tests, the United States views the Copa America as its last significant challenge ahead of the 2026 World Cup. “A World Cup on home soil is the biggest thing that you know we’ll probably do in our career,” star attacker Christian...

US captain Tyler Adams to have limited role in friendly against Brazil

Jun. 11, 2024 11:39 AM EDT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. captain Tyler Adams will be available in a limited role for the Americans' friendly game against Brazil on Wednesday night but forward Josh Sargent will miss his second straight match ahead of the Copa America. Adams, a 25-year-old defensive midfielder,...

Josh Sargent out for Colombia friendly, could miss Copa America

Jun. 07, 2024 18:39 PM EDT

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — United States forward Josh Sargent could miss Saturday's friendly against Colombia and could be dropped from the Copa America roster. A 24-year-old from O'Fallon, Missouri, Sargent scored 16 goals in 26 league games with Norwich in England's second-tier League...

Nearly 50 years after her death, Uruguay lays to rest a woman disappeared by its dictatorship

Jun. 06, 2024 20:06 PM EDT

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Nearly five decades after Uruguayan security forces seized Amelia Sanjurjo from the street, disappearing the newly pregnant woman into the maw of the military's prison system, she received a proper burial on Thursday in her hometown of Montevideo. The...

Iconic former Uruguayan President José Mujica is diagnosed with esophageal cancer

Apr. 29, 2024 18:33 PM EDT

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Uruguay's former guerilla-turned-president, José Mujica, widely known as a leftist icon who transformed his small country into one of the most socially liberal in all of Latin America, said Monday that he has esophageal cancer. Mujica, 88, said he was...

Renowned Peruvian investigative reporter battles criminalized smear campaign — and cancer

Apr. 28, 2024 01:26 AM EDT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — At age 75, one of Latin America’s most storied journalists had been looking forward to weaving into books the fragmented threads of more than four decades of investigative reporting that exposed high-level abuse of power in Peru and abroad. In an illustrious...