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Donovan helps Gonzalez with World Cup tips 06/29/2014 04:50pm • ARON HELLER Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) -- Landon Donovan is still playing a role for the U.S. World Cup team: supporting defender Omar Gonzalez, his Los Angeles Galaxy teammate.After injuring his left knee during a Major League Soccer game May 3, Gonzalez was supplanted in the U.S. starting lin Argentina's debt fight: What it is, why it matters 06/29/2014 12:14pm • MATTHEW CRAFT AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Time to resolve Argentina's long battle with creditors is running out.Argentina owes an interest payment to the majority of its creditors on Monday, though the government has a 30-day grace period after that to avoid going into another catastrophic d Reed builds 2-shot lead at Congressional 06/29/2014 10:54am • DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Patrick Reed is not interested in talking about being top five in the world.He only cares about PGA Tour victory No. 4.Reed, who turned off some of his peers when he won at Doral and said he was among the top five players in the world, held it toget Cameroon, Ghana to investigate World Cup failures 06/29/2014 10:00am • DOUALA, Cameroon (AP) -- The presidents of Cameroon and Ghana have called for investigations following disappointing World Cup showings that saw both countries eliminated during the group stage.In Cameroon, state media said President Paul Biya had given his prime minister one month to submit a repor 3 years late, US Open conditions at Congressional 06/28/2014 07:30pm • JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Three years after hosting a U.S. Open, Congressional Country Club is finally playing like a U.S. Open.Thick rough and fast, firm greens kept the scores high Saturday at the Quicken Loans National. There were no bogey-free rounds, and the average sc Woods misses the cut, and a 4-way tie for the lead 06/28/2014 05:08pm • DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Tiger Woods got the competition he wanted, even if it was only for two days.In his first tournament in more than three months because of back surgery, Woods made back-to-back birdies around the turn at Congressional and was one shot off the cut line A short return for Tiger Woods at Congressional 06/28/2014 03:38am • DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Tiger Woods never felt so good after playing so badly.Taking two shots to escape a plugged lie in a bunker put him a hole. Four straight bogeys on the back nine Friday in the Quicken Loans National buried his chances of making it to the weekend. Ove Woods' comments after previous missed cuts 06/27/2014 09:30pm • BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Quotes from Tiger Woods after each of the 10 times he has missed the cut on the PGA Tour:"It had to happen. I can't play my entire career without missing a cut." -- 1997 Canadian Open, where Woods missed the cut by one shot at Royal Montreal. It was his 26th start as a pro.___" RI, law firm strike $4.4M agreement on 38 Studios 06/27/2014 08:00pm • MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A law firm sued by Rhode Island's economic development agency over the failed $75 million deal with former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video game company has agreed to settle for $4.4 million, the sides said in a court filing Fr Who's that Aussie? Newbie Goss tied for lead 06/27/2014 07:21pm • JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- The young Australian at the top of the leaderboard is so new to the PGA Tour that he couldn't get into the clubhouse.Playing in his second event as a professional, 20-year-old Oliver Goss shot a bogey-free, 5-under 66 Friday in the second round of US regulators close small bank in Oklahoma 06/27/2014 07:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators have closed a lender in Oklahoma, bringing U.S. bank failures this year to 12 after 24 closures in all of 2013.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Friday that it has taken over Freedom State Bank, based in Freedom, Oklahoma.The bank, which operated one branch, had Aussies share 2nd-round lead at Quicken Loans 06/27/2014 05:52pm • BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Two Australians are tied for the lead after the morning rounds on Day 2 of the Quicken Loans National.Marc Leishman and newcomer Oliver Goss are at 6 under after each shot 66 during the second round Friday on the Blue Course at Congressional Country Club.Leishman has one PGA To Transportation museum builds Wright gas station 06/27/2014 03:01pm • CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Frank Lloyd Wright's 1927 vision of a proper service station had two fireplaces, a second-floor observation room, eye-catching copper spires and separate restrooms for the comfort of travelers increasingly hitting the road rather than rails.The World Cup quarters for Costa Rica or Greece 06/27/2014 01:10pm • GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- This World Cup just got a whole lot easier for Costa Rica. According to the rankings, anyway.Having left former champions Uruguay, Italy and England behind to sensationally win their group -- one of the toughest at the World Cup -- the Costa Rican EU deals could stoke growth, reform 06/27/2014 12:46pm • DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Leaders from the 28-country European Union on Friday signed broad trade and economic deals with non-member countries Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia.The so-called "association agreements" have been a focal point in the region's turmoil. In Ukraine,