PARIS (AP) — U.S. first lady Jill Biden visited some American athletes at an Olympic training center in Paris on Thursday, wishing rugby and track and field competitors good luck and even taking part in a stationary relay drill with runners. Biden arrived in Paris a day before the Summer Games’ opening ceremony on the
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Everything to know about artistic swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics, including competition preview, event guide, top athletes, how to watch and daily schedule.
Continue ReadingBy Christian Olaniran Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — Actor Kevin Spacey’s waterfront home sold for $3.24 million at a public auction Thursday on the steps of a Baltimore Circuit Court. The 9,000-square-foot home in Harborview was sold to a Maryland developer, according to Sam Sheibani of Compass, a nationwide
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A running recap of the women’s pool play on July 25 at the 2024 Paris Games.
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Everything to know about swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics, including competition preview, event guide, top athletes, how to watch and daily schedule.
Continue Reading Everything to know about swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics, including competition preview, event guide, top athletes, how to watch and daily schedule.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s Democratic Alliance is taking the African National Congress, the party it co-governs the country with, to court over a preelection speech given by President Cyril Ramaphosa. It’s an early sign of friction between the country’s most important partners in a new multiparty coalition. The DA
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France kicked off its Olympic campaign with a 3-2 win against Colombia at the 2024 Paris Games despite a late scare from the South Americans.
Continue ReadingBy Andrea Olson Click here for updates on this story ARCO, Idaho (eastidahonews.com) — Roberta Armstrong has had a good life but still wonders from time to time how it would have been different had her father lived. Lt. Robert W. Madsen of Minnesota died in a training crash 80 years ago at what’s now
Continue ReadingBy Danya Gainor and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia made history Thursday as the first lawmaker to use an artificial intelligence-generated model of her voice to speak for her on the House floor. “My battle with progressive Supranuclear palsy, or PSP, has robbed me of my ability to use
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US economy just got its latest health check, and it looks promising. Gross domestic product, which measures all the goods and services produced in the economy, registered at a robust 2.8% annualized rate in the second quarter, after adjusting for inflation and seasonality, the Commerce Department said
Continue ReadingBy Aziza Shuler Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KDKA) — A Lehigh Valley Division I athlete put his dreams of attending law school on hold. He’s now dedicating his future to teaching youth tennis in Philadelphia. “Attitude, character, as well as effort,” Gabe Knowles, a tennis coach at Legacy Youth Tennis, said.
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are everywhere lately. While promoting their upcoming Marvel epic “Deadpool & Wolverine,” out Friday, the pair have done every interview, hosted a late night show and are probably commanding your social media feed. But instead of poking fun at each other as they’ve done
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — New federal court rulings are narrowing the Biden administration’s enforcement of a rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination and allowing critics to limit it even further school by school. The rule is to take effect on Aug. 1. A federal judge in Missouri blocked enforcement in six additional
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Recap of all the matches from the men’s rugby quarterfinals and classification matches.
Continue ReadingBy Tom Ignudo, Joe Brandt Click here for updates on this story BERWYN, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A Chester County woman was charged for deliberately setting a fire at a historic Main Line home on Tuesday morning. Easttown Township Police charged Kathryn Frankel with arson, risking catastrophe and other related offenses on Wednesday after a fire
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The feuding this week among officials in the Olympics, the anti-doping world and the United States government over eradicating drugs from sports is hardly new. They’ve been going at it for decades. The tension reached a new level on the eve of the Paris Games when the International Olympic
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One of Oregon’s largest wildfires of recent weeks, the nearly 2-week-old Lone Rock Fire, recently reached “mega-fire” status, meaning it’s burned more than 100,000 acres of land.
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The US Justice Department on Thursday announced the indictment of an alleged North Korean government-backed hacker for allegedly participating in a scheme to break into US hospital computer systems and extort them for ransom. Rim Jong Hyok is part of a group of hackers working for North Korea’s military
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Make sure you’ve got enough pages in your passport, because TIME has just released its list of the world’s 100 greatest places to visit in 2024. From Costa Rica to Koh Samui to the Republic of the Congo, the team of editors at the New York-based news magazine has
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