China’s Lian Junjie and Yang Hao win gold in the men’s synchro platform finals, besting Great Britain’s Tom Daley and Noah Williams by more than 25 points. Canada’s Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray won bronze.
Continue Reading China’s Lian Junjie and Yang Hao win gold in the men’s synchro platform finals, besting Great Britain’s Tom Daley and Noah Williams by more than 25 points. Canada’s Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray won bronze.
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Four years ago, the unexpected discovery in the clouds of Venus of a gas that on Earth signifies life — phosphine — faced controversy, earning rebukes in subsequent observations that failed to match its findings. Now, the same team behind that discovery has come back with more observations, presented
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It was a promising start when Ilona Maher scored the first try against France but Seraphine Okemba scored four tries to lift France to a 31-14 win. The Americans will face Great Britain in the quarterfinals.
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First seed Novak Djokovic bested 14-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal, 6-1, 6-4 at the Paris Olympics on Monday to punch his ticket to Round 3.
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Many had Belgium pegged as a dark horse in Paris, but it was Germany who looked the part in an easy win to open group play in the Olympic women’s basketball tournament.
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — As if people with anxiety don’t have enough to worry about, a new study is adding to that list — suggesting the disorder may nearly triple the risk of developing dementia years later. The research, to the authors’ knowledge, is the first to look into the association between different severities
Continue ReadingVILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — One person has died and some 200,000 households have been left without electricity in Lithuania and neighboring Latvia as strong storm winds and heavy rain pounded the two Baltic nations overnight. A 50-year-old woman was killed in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, by a falling tree on Monday, authorities said. Fire and
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Deizy Nhaquile became the first athlete from Mozambique to qualify her country for sailing at the Games when she raced in Tokyo.
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Paris Olympics organizers canceled triathlon swimming training for the second consecutive day on Monday due to water levels in the Seine River.
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — The first time Alexis Hammond rented out her Baltimore home on Peerspace, a marketplace for renting homes and other spaces by the hour, a film crew and a celebrity arrived to shoot a Wawa commercial. “There was a Baltimore Ravens football player here, so that was very exciting,” Hammond
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Schlachter and Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Many athletes have to deal with an increased weight of expectation when coming into an Olympic Games – none perhaps more so than the members of the USA women’s basketball team. And while there’s no such concept of a sure thing or a guaranteed gold medal
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris’ plan as a running mate was to brush past JD Vance as nothing but a rubber stamp for Donald Trump. But now that she’s the presumptive Democratic nominee, her campaign is seizing on the Ohio senator as a major liability, looking to her own vice presidential selection
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Everything to know as the 3×3 basketball competition gets underway at the Paris Olympics, with both the U.S. men and women looking to capture gold.
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India’s Harmanpreet Singh scored in the waning minutes to force a 1-1 draw in Monday’s clash vs. Argentina in Pool B field hockey action. India entered Paris as the all-time Olympic medals leader in men’s field hockey.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — The French government was investigating after multiple telecommunications lines were hit by acts of vandalism Monday, affecting fiber lines and fixed and mobile phone lines as cities around France host events for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Organizers for the Paris Games say their operations were not affected. France’s second largest
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — One woman sleeps with a knife under her pillow, in the hope she can protect herself against armed men who might storm her house at night. Another was raped “repeatedly for days” along with her four daughters, while her husband and sons were forced to watch. Another was thrown
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have overrun two front-line villages in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, a Ukrainian army sergeant said Monday, after relentless assaults that are part of a Kremlin summer push to overwhelm battlefield defenses there. Separately, attacks in Russia’s Kursk region by the Security Service of Ukraine, also known as
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Both U.S. men’s beach volleyball teams are in action on Tuesday at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden decried “extremism” that he says has undermined public confidence in the the U.S. Supreme Court, as he called on Congress to quickly establish term limits and an enforceable ethics code for the court’s nine justices. He also called on lawmakers to ratify a constitutional amendment limiting
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