ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta midfielder Tyler Wolff, a son of Austin coach Josh Wolff, was loaned by Major League Soccer’s Atlanta to Beveren of Belgium’s second tier for the 2022-23 season. Wolff, 19, signed with Atlanta in July 2020 and made 17 league appearances. He was part of the U.S. under-20 team that qualified for
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — All sorts of requests reach the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, via all sorts of methods, but rarely does a meaningful entreaty come via LinkedIn message. That, though, is how Micky Lawler, the president of the WTA women’s professional tennis tour, first reached out to
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — All sorts of requests reach the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, via all sorts of methods, but rarely does a meaningful entreaty come via LinkedIn message. That, though, is how Micky Lawler, the president of the WTA women’s professional tennis tour, first reached out to
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry won the first stage of a libel suit against the publisher of Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper as a judge ruled Friday that parts of a story about his fight for police protection in the U.K. were defamatory. High Court Justice Matthew Nicklin hasn’t yet
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry won the first stage of a libel suit against the publisher of Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper as a judge ruled Friday that parts of a story about his fight for police protection in the U.K. were defamatory. High Court Justice Matthew Nicklin hasn’t yet
Continue ReadingBy Michael Abeyta Click here for updates on this story COLORADO (KCNC) — On the evening of Saturday, July 2, a driver for Elevate Rides was making a run with a limousine bus near Red Rocks Amphitheatre when they were hit head-on by a sedan. In the dash cam video provided by the bus company,
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The US economy added 372,000 jobs in June, an unexpected boost in hiring and a signal that the labor market remains robust despite recession fears, according to the monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday. The unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%, still close to the 52-year low
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on an agenda next week that would ask voters for the right to remove an elected sheriff from office. The proposed change to the county’s charter could be on the
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court has ruled that absentee ballot drop boxes may be placed only in election offices and that no one other than the voter can return a ballot in person. The decision is a defeat for Democrats in the battleground state who decried Friday’s
Continue ReadingFiona Sinclair Scott, CNN This week in Paris, a series of designer collections featuring handcrafted, one-of-a-kind, eye-wateringly expensive high fashion was once again unveiled during the city’s biannual Haute Couture Week. Closer to collectible art than the clothing most regular people own, couture fashion is exclusive by definition, with each bespoke garment made for one
Continue ReadingCNN By Sandee LaMotte, CNN In February 2016, infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee was holding her dying husband’s hand, watching him lose an exhausting fight against a deadly superbug infection. After months of ups and downs, doctors had just told her that her husband, Tom Patterson, was too racked with bacteria to live. “And I
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN In February 2016, infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee was holding her dying husband’s hand, watching him lose an exhausting fight against a deadly superbug infection. After months of ups and downs, doctors had just told her that her husband, Tom Patterson, was too racked with bacteria to live. “And I have
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The United States has been drawn in a group with Poland and the Czech Republic for the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in November. Friday’s draw put host nation Britain in a group with Kazakhstan and Spain as part of the 12-team tournament in Glasgow, Scotland from Nov. 8-13. Australia was drawn
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media say that President Bashar Assad has made a rare visit to the northern province of Aleppo to tour the country’s largest city and inaugurate a power station that was once held by insurgents and suffered wide damages during the war. The visit on Friday by Assad and his family
Continue ReadingBy Christine Romans, CNN Business It’s “almost impossible” for the Fed to tamp down inflation without tipping the US economy into a recession, says Former IMF Chief Economist Ken Rogoff. “[The Fed] would have to be very lucky,” Rogoff told CNN’s Christine Romans on Early Start. “They have to decide: Do they have to have
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Hundred of firefighters backed by water-dropping planes battled a large forest fire Friday in southeastern France that has forced the evacuation of nearby villages. Thirteen firefighters have been injured in Bordezac — the village where the fire started. Overall, 18 firefighters have been injured amid several forest fires that have burned for
Continue ReadingBy John Lauritsen Click here for updates on this story BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota (WCCO) — There are efforts to reduce invasive fish populations on Twin Cities lakes by a process called “electro-shock.” “We were catching them by the buckets. Five-gallon buckets. We couldn’t even count them there were so many,” said Jordan Wein of WSB. Last
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas, CNN Paul Rudd showed a young fan some much-deserved kindness. The actor reached out to a Brody Ridder, 12, after learning the boy was being alienated at his middle school. Ridder made headlines in his hometown of Westminster, Colorado after his mother posted a photo to Facebook, revealing that his classmates refused
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La economía estadounidense añadió 372.000 puestos de trabajo en junio, un impulso inesperado a la contratación y una señal de que el mercado laboral sigue caliente a pesar de los temores de recesión, según el informe mensual de empleo de la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales, publicado este viernes. La tasa
Continue ReadingRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has received a call from Israel’s caretaker prime minister, Yair Lapid, the first such conversation between Abbas and an Israeli premier in years. The call came amid a rare flurry of high-level Israeli-Palestinian contacts ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and the occupied West
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