DETROIT (AP) — Two U.S. senators are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate automakers selling customers’ driving data to brokers who package it and then sell it to insurance companies. In a letter to FTC Chairwoman Linda Khan, Democrats Ron Wyden of Oregon, and Edward Markey of Massachusetts allege that General Motors, Hyundai,
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Team France is greeted by a warm welcome as they arrive at the 2024 Opening Ceremony on the Seine River in Paris.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former FBI officials have settled lawsuits with the Justice Department to resolve claims that their privacy was violated when the department leaked to the news media text messages that they had sent one another that disparaged former President Donald Trump. Peter Strzok, a former top counterintelligence agent who played
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Beyonce gives a warm welcome to Team USA as the 2024 Paris Olympic Games officially kick off at the Opening Ceremony.
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After starting her family, soccer player Casey Krueger is excited to be at the 2024 Paris Games. After being an alternate in Tokyo, she’s excited to hit the pitch with the U.S. women’s team.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PAPARA, Tahiti (AP) — Tahitian dancers in palm leaf skirts mingled with surfers, locals and tourists as the opening ceremony for the Games commenced in French Polynesia on Friday morning, some 10,000 miles away from Paris. Steps from the ocean and near the lush green mountains of Tahiti, the event was heavily focused
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Team USA, led by flag bearers LeBron James and Coco Gauff, arrive at the 2024 Olympic Opening Ceremony on the Seine River in Paris.
Continue ReadingBy Aditi Sangal and Kyle Feldscher, CNN Paris (CNN) — Romanian rowing athletes Ionela-Livia Cozmiuc and Marius Cozmiuc set a historic first at the opening ceremony Friday in Paris, becoming the first-ever married couple to serve as flag bearers for their country. In what is truly an athletic love story, the two flag bearers are both multiple-time Olympians. Marius Cozmiuc
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Govs. Wes Moore, D-Md., J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., and Chris Sununu, R-N.H. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Preempted by coverage of the Olympics. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M.; Rep. Michael
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria reminded France of a particularly dark chapter of its colonial past during the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics. Algerian athletes brought red roses on their boat as they paraded for the event. Then they tossed the flowers into the river to honor victims of an infamous 1961 police crackdown
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Ex-FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page reached settlements with the Justice Department that will see the government paying out a total of $2 million in their lawsuits over the department’s 2018 release of their text messages. Former agent Strzok will get $1.2 million and Page, who was an FBI lawyer, will get
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Lansing (AP) — Federal judges have given final approval to new boundaries for several Detroit-area state legislative seats. The decision ended a case in which the court found that race illegally influenced the old district maps. The court ordered the seats to be redrawn after a group of Black residents argued in a
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Mariah Taylor checks in with American track and field runner Sha’Carri Richardson aboard Team USA’s boat at the 2024 Olympic Opening Ceremony.
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — In early June, Toyota announced the recall of nearly 100,000 Tundra pickups and about 3,500 Lexus luxury SUVs to fix a problem that could cause their engines to lose power while driving. At the time, Toyota said it was working to find a solution to the issue. The solution,
Continue ReadingAP National Writer PARIS (AP) — French Olympic gold medalists Teddy Riner and Marie-José Pérec teamed to light the cauldron for the Paris Olympics to end an elaborate but rain-soaked opening ceremony. Riner won three golds in judo and Pérec won three in athletics, becoming the first sprinter to win consecutive golds in the 400-meter
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — México envió 200 miembros de su Cuerpo de Fuerzas Especiales de élite, parte del Ejército mexicano, al estado de Sinaloa el viernes para reforzar la seguridad, de acuerdo con un comunicado de la Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional de México. Los miembros de élite trabajarán con las autoridades locales
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials have denied clemency to a man who is set to be executed for the 1998 killing of his girlfriend’s mother. Taberon Dave Honie is scheduled to die by lethal injection Aug. 8. Honie had asked the state parole board to commute his sentence to life in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — Celine Dion made a triumphant return Friday with a very public performance, closing out the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony from the Eiffel Tower. Nearly two years after revealing her stiff person syndrome diagnosis, Dion belted Edith Piaf’s “Hymne à l’amour” (“Hymn to Love”) as the finale of the roughly four-hour
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Watch as the cloaked figure carrying the Olympic torch crashes a performance of Les Misérables and kicks off a performance dedicated to “liberation” at the Olympic Opening Ceremony.
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The Opening Ceremony kicks off the 2024 Olympic Games as athletes from around the world officially become Olympians.
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