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Illinois officer dies trying to stop fleeing car on bridge
BROOKLYN, Ill. — An Illinois police officer died early Wednesday while trying to stop a car fleeing police into Missouri, authorities said. The officer from Brooklyn was struck around 3 a.m. on the McKinley Bridge, which connects the two states. He was setting up stop sticks, which flatten tires, when...
Police brass eyed in probe of Black man’s deadly arrest
MONROE, La. — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Louisiana State Police brass obstructed justice to protect the troopers seen on long-withheld body camera video punching, dragging and stunning Black motorist Ronald Greene during his fatal 2019 arrest. It marks a significant expansion of the federal inquiry that began as a...
U.K. to roll out covid vaccines to 16- and 17-year-olds
LONDON — The U.K. is to offer coronavirus vaccines to 16 and 17-year-olds in the coming weeks after the independent body of scientists that makes recommendations over the rollout changed its advice. The four nations of the U.K. all accepted the change in advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination...
Airstrikes pummel Taliban positions in southern Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. and Afghan airstrikes hit Taliban targets overnight in southern Helmand province in an effort to dislodge the insurgents after they captured much of the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, officials said Wednesday. The United Nations and Human Rights Watch asked both sides to take care to...
3 in fatal Michigan rock-throwing case get probation
FLINT, Mich. — Three young Michigan men who were teens when they were part of a rock-throwing incident that killed a motorist on Interstate 75 were put on probation after spending more than three years in custody while their case was stuck in court. The court hearing Tuesday ended a...
Grammys commit to more hiring diversity for 2022 show
LOS ANGELES — The Grammy Awards will adopt an inclusion rider that will require producers to recruit and hire more diverse candidates backstage and in front of the camera for next year’s ceremony. The Recording Academy announced Wednesday that the rider will be added to its agreement with producers staging...
Pentagon IDs officer killed in violence outside building
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon police force on Wednesday identified the officer who was fatally stabbed at a transit center outside the Pentagon. The Pentagon Force Protection Agency said Officer George Gonzalez was a New York native and Army veteran who served in Iraq. He’d been on the police force for...
Sydney McLaughlin outsprints teammate Dalilah Muhammad for hurdles record
TOKYO — Sydney McLaughlin broke the world record. Dalilah Muhammad broke it, too. Only one of the world’s best hurdlers could win the Olympic gold medal — and McLaughlin came out ahead in the latest installment of the best rivalry in track. The 21-year-old from New Jersey won the 400-meter...
Triston Casas’ 3rd homer, Scott Kazmir help U.S. baseball beat Dominicans
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Triston Casas hit his third home run of the Olympics, a two-run drive in the first inning off Boston Red Sox Double-A teammate Denyi Reyes, and the United States beat the Dominican Republic, 3-1, on Wednesday to stay in gold medal contention. Tyler Austin, a former major...
Brenna Stewart leads U.S. women to semis with win over Australia
SAITAMA, Japan — Breanna Stewart and the U.S. women played their best basketball of the Tokyo Games, putting on a dominant performance that team has been known for over the years en route to winning six consecutive Olympic gold medals. The Seattle Storm star was a big reason why the...
U.S., 3 unbeaten teams set for Olympic men’s basketball semis
SAITAMA, Japan — They believe they are the best basketball team at the Olympics, too good to consider anything but gold. “If we do what we do well, we bring the intensity on defense, we play our roles but we’re ourselves in our roles, we’re free, we’re the best players...
Despite chip shortage, GM posts $2.8B profit, ups guidance
DETROIT — Despite a computer chip shortage that temporarily closed some of its factories, General Motors made a healthy $2.8 billion net profit in the second quarter. The earnings came even though GM plants cranked out 200,000 fewer vehicles than they did during the same period in 2019, the last...
Japan to limit hospital care as covid cases hit new high
TOKYO — Japan’s government is introducing a contentious new policy in which coronavirus patients with moderate symptoms will isolate at home instead of in hospitals, as new cases surge in Tokyo to record levels during the Olympic Games. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s plan, which aims to save hospital beds almost...
Biden chides Republican governors who resist vaccine rules
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden called on resistant Republican governors to “get out of the way” of vaccine rules aimed at containing the more transmissible and dangerous covid-19 variant. He backed city and private mandates requiring people to be vaccinated to go about some daily activities. Speaking Tuesday from the...
Obama curtails 60th birthday bash after delta variant surge
WASHINGTON — The party for the nation’s 44th president will go on, but only for family and close friends. Former President Barack Obama has scaled back his 60th birthday bash set for this weekend due to the surge of infections blamed on the delta variant of the coronavirus, his office...
This Date in Sports History: Aug. 4
1945 — Byron Nelson wins his 11th consecutive PGA Tour event, beating Herman Barron by four strokes. Nelson finishes the year with a record for most tournament wins (18) in a season. 1982 — Joel Youngblood becomes the only player in major-league history to get hits for two teams in...
Trump-backed Mike Carey, centrist Shontel Brown win Ohio U.S. House races
COLUMBUS — Mike Carey, a coal lobbyist backed by former President Donald Trump, won a Republican primary Tuesday for an open U.S. House seat in central Ohio that tested Trump’s status as kingmaker. While centrist County Councilwoman Shontel Brown held off progressive Nina Turner in the race for the other...
Carmelo Anthony to join LeBron, Lakers on 1-year dealVideo
LOS ANGELES — Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James long have wanted to be on the same team. They finally will get their chance after Anthony agreed to a one-year deal to join the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday. Anthony broke the news on social media by posting a video that...
Stephen Curry lands 2nd $200M contract of career with Warriors
SAN FRANCISCO — Stephen Curry landed the second $200 million-plus contract of his career, reaching agreement on a $215 million, four-year extension with the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday that takes him through the 2025-26 season. Curry’s agent, Jeff Austin of Octagon, confirmed the new deal for the star point...
Sumo scare? Olympic riders say horses spooked by statue
KAMIYOGA, Japan — Equestrian jumpers aren’t keen on surprises. Neither are the horses, and it takes years of training to keep them from getting spooked. Of course, no horse in Tuesday night’s Olympic jumping qualifier ever had seen anything like obstacle No. 10. “As you come around, you see a...
Judge blocks Texas troopers from stopping migrant transports
AUSTIN — A federal judge Tuesday blocked Texas from allowing state troopers to stop vehicles carrying migrants on the grounds that they may spread covid-19 as worries and new cases are rising along the U.S.-Mexico border. The temporary order by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone of El Paso is at...
Missouri governor pardons gun-waving St. Louis lawyer couple
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday announced that he made good on his promise to pardon a couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators as they marched past the couple’s home in a luxury St. Louis enclave last year. Parson, a Republican, on...
Browns get good news on injured LB Anthony Walker
BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns dodged their first major injury of this season. Starting middle linebacker Anthony Walker Jr. will not need surgery but is expected to miss an extended period with a right knee injury suffered on a noncontact play in training camp Monday. Coach Kevin Stefanski said...
Panthers receiver carted off; player who hit him is cut
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Carolina Panthers wide receiver Keith Kirkwood was hit in the neck area during practice Tuesday, carted off the field and taken away by ambulance. The player who struck him was kicked out of practice and waived. Kirkwood suffered a concussion, was released from the hospital and is...
Arkansas governor pushes mask law change, despite resistance
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson pressed forward Tuesday with efforts to allow schools to mandate face masks as the state’s coronavirus cases continued to spiral, but faced heavy opposition from fellow Republicans over the move. Hutchinson called the majority-GOP Legislature back into session to take up the change...
