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U.S. women’s soccer team circles wagons, aims for 5th gold medal
TOKYO — The U.S. women’s national soccer team is in a bubble of its own making for the Tokyo Olympics, and it’s not just because of coronavirus restrictions. The World Cup champions have become adept at shutting out all the outside noise — the seemingly endless social media debates, the...
Blue Origin’s Bezos reaches space on 1st passenger flightVideo
VAN HORN, Texas — Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket company’s first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft. The Amazon founder was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands...
This date in sports history: July 20Video
1858 — Fans are charged for the first time to see a baseball game. Approximately 1,500 fans pay 50 cents to see the New York All-Stars beat Brooklyn, 22-18, at Fashion Race Course on Long Island. 1958 — The PGA championship calls for medal play for the first time, and...
Coming off ACL tear, former Penn State star Saquon Barkley says little about Giants campVideo
NORTH CALDWELL, N.J. — Coming off an ACL injury that cost him most of last season, Saquon Barkley either doesn’t know or isn’t saying how much he will be able to do when the New York Giants report to training camp next week. Speaking during a break at a youth...
Kevin McCarthy proposes 5 Republicans to sit on Jan. 6 panel
WASHINGTON — House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has picked five Republicans to sit on the new select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, signaling that Republicans will participate in the investigation that they have staunchly opposed. McCarthy has selected Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, who recently visited...
Biden wants spending to boost economy, but GOP to block vote
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Monday that his infrastructure and families agenda must be passed to sustain the economic momentum of his first six months in office, aiming to set the tone for a crucial week of congressional negotiations on the two bills. But a Wednesday deadline set by...
History awaits: Bucks try to focus with championship chance
MILWAUKEE — High atop the outside of Fiserv Forum — way above even a leaping Giannis Antetokounmpo’s reach — blares the Bucks’ postseason motto. “HISTORY IN THE MAKING” it reads, a sign and a situation that’s now impossible to ignore. And yet, that’s exactly what the Bucks are trying to...
Column: Quirky SRX exceeded expectations in debut season
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — SRX exceeded all expectations, right? Not even a bookie in Las Vegas — Tony Stewart’s gold standard for foreseeing results — could have predicted the six-week Superstar Racing Experience summer season would have been such a success. It grew so big, so quickly that by the made-for-TV...
Ready or not: Short-handed U.S. basketball roster off to Tokyo
The U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team has been together for two weeks. There have been six practices. The team played four exhibitions. A pair of roster changes have already been required and the Americans have no idea when three other players will join the team for the first time. If...
Mets manager Luis Rojas suspended 2 games for Pirates outburst
CINCINNATI — New York Mets manager Luis Rojas was suspended Monday for two games and fined for excessive arguing with umpires, an outburst that followed a bizarre play a day earlier at PNC Park against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Rojas was to begin serving his suspension Monday night at Cincinnati. He...
Analysis: If Carey Price isn’t right for Kraken, Braden Holtby could be
SEATTLE — Carey Price would be an instant cornerstone for the NHL’s newest franchise if the Seattle Kraken select the Montreal Canadiens goaltender in the expansion draft Wednesday night. It is not a no-brainer decision, however. Price’s questionable injury status clouds the selection process. The 34-year-old star has a knee...
Utah man falls to death hiking Provo Canyon with 9-year-old boy
SPANISH FORK, Utah — A Utah man hiking with the young son of his fiancee fell to his death near Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon, leaving the 9-year-old boy to climb down the mountain by himself, authorities said. The boy’s mother called for help, saying she could see her...
Watchdog: Wilbur Ross misled on reason for citizenship question
President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary misled Congress about why he sought to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, according to an investigation from the Office of Inspector General, but President Joe Biden’s Justice Department has decided not to prosecute. The watchdog agency’s probe showed that Wilbur Ross misrepresented...
Judge: Indiana University can require covid-19 vaccinations
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana University can require its roughly 90,000 students and 40,000 employees to get vaccinated for covid-19 under a federal judge’s ruling that might be the first of its kind regarding college immunization mandates. In a ruling dated Sunday, U.S. District Judge Damon Leichty in South Bend rejected a...
Peyton Manning teams up with brother, ESPN for MNF MegaCast
ESPN has finally landed Peyton Manning as a “Monday Night Football” commentator. It’s just not in a way anyone expected, and it won’t be for the full season. Walt Disney Company announced on Monday a partnership with Manning and his Omaha Productions company in which Peyton and Eli Manning will...
Stocks skid, yields sink as coronavirus fears shake global markets
NEW YORK — Resurgent pandemic worries knocked stocks lower from Wall Street to Tokyo on Monday, fueled by fears that faster-spreading variants of the virus may upend the economy’s strong recovery. The S&P 500 fell 68.67, or 1.6%, to 4,258.49, after setting a record just a week earlier. In another...
Pennsylvania smashes record for gambling revenue in a year
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania smashed its record for gambling revenue, state regulators said Monday, reporting nearly $3.9 billion in the last fiscal year as every category of wagering showed growth in one of the nation’s largest casino and gambling states. The rebound comes after pandemic-related shutdowns helped knock casino revenue down...
Arkansas coronavirus hospitalizations go up by 106 over weekend
LITTLE ROCK — The number of people hospitalized because of the coronavirus jumped by 106 over the weekend in Arkansas, which is leading the nation in new virus cases per capita. The Department of Health said Monday that the state’s virus hospitalizations increased to 787. Of those, 291 patients are...
New chief selected for Capitol Police after 1/6 insurrection
WASHINGTON — A police official who has run large departments in Maryland and Virginia has been selected as chief of the U.S. Capitol Police in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which pro-Trump rioters stormed the building in a violent rage, disrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential...
German officials defend their actions on devastating floodsVideo
BERLIN — German officials defended their actions ahead of last week’s severe floods that caught many towns by surprise and killed 196 people in Western Europe, but they conceded that more lessons can be learned from the disaster. As floodwaters receded Monday, authorities continued searching for more victims and intensified...
‘Kansas’ rock violinist, singer Robby Steinhardt, dies at 71
Robert E. “Robby” Steinhardt, a violinist and vocalist with the progressive rock band Kansas, has died due to complications from pancreatitis. He was 71. His wife, Cindy Steinhardt, said he died Saturday at a hospital in Tampa, Florida. She announced on Facebook Monday that he had just recorded his first...
Canada to let in vaccinated U.S. citizens on Aug. 9
TORONTO — Canada announced Monday it will begin letting fully vaccinated U.S. citizens into Canada on Aug. 9, and those from the rest of the world on Sept. 7. Officials said the 14-day quarantine requirement will be waived as of Aug. 9 for eligible travelers who are currently residing in...
Prince Harry working on ‘intimate and heartfelt memoir’
NEW YORK — Prince Harry is writing what his publisher is calling an “intimate and heartfelt memoir.” Random House expects to release the book, currently untitled, late in 2022. “I’m writing this not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become,” the Duke of Sussex,...
Investors dump stocks, buy bonds as virus fears flare again
Resurgent pandemic worries are knocking stocks lower from Wall Street to Sydney on Monday, fueled by fears that faster-spreading variants of the virus may upend the economy’s strong recovery. The S&P 500 was 2% lower in afternoon trading, after setting a record just a week earlier. In another sign of...
Ben & Jerry’s to stop sales in West Bank, east Jerusalem
Ben & Jerry’s said Monday it was going to stop selling its ice cream in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and contested east Jerusalem, saying the sales in the territories sought by the Palestinians are “inconsistent with our values.” The announcement was one of the strongest and highest-profile rebukes by a...
