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Algerian boxer Imane Khelif clinches medal at Olympics amid controversyVideo
VILLEPINTE, France — Boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria clinched a medal at the Paris Olympics in an emotional fight Saturday that followed days of sharp scrutiny and online abuse as misconceptions about her gender exploded into a larger clash about identity in sports. Khelif defeated Anna Luca Hamori of Hungary,...
Sha’Carri Richardson’s comeback halted by Julien Alfred, who wins 100-meter title
SAINT-DENIS, France — Sha’Carri Richardson’s comeback story hit a brick wall Saturday when Julien Alfred romped in the rain to the 100-meter title in 10.72 seconds to bring the first Olympic medal to her island country of Saint Lucia. Racing one lane to the left of Richardson, and with water...
Penn State grad Stephen ‘Pommel Horse Guy’ Nedoroscik adds another bronze at OlympicsVideo
Stephen Nedoroscik’s meticulous attention to details and rituals do not stop with his pommel horse routine. Outside the gym, the Penn State graduate can be obsessive, too. So when he again solved his Rubik’s Cube in under 10 seconds Saturday ahead of the pommel horse final at the Paris Olympics,...
Katie Ledecky swims into history with 800 freestyle victory at OlympicsVideo
NANTERRE, France — Every year on August 3, Katie Ledecky is reminded of her first Olympic gold medal. She was just 15 years old, a reserved high schooler who had surprisingly made the U.S. swim team for the London Games. Then she went out and shocked the world, beating everyone...
Katie Ledecky swims into history with 800 freestyle victory at the Paris Olympics
NANTERRE, France — Katie Ledecky capped another stellar Olympics by becoming only the second swimmer to win an event at four straight Summer Games, holding off Ariarne Titmus to win the 800-meter freestyle Saturday night. It was Ledecky’s second gold medal in Paris and ninth of her remarkable career, which...
U.S. men’s basketball rolls into Olympic quarterfinals as top seed after rout of Puerto RicoVideo
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — Halfway to its goal of gold, the U.S. has the No. 1 seed going into the medal round at the Paris Olympics. And now the real games start. Anthony Edwards scored 26 points, six players reached double figures for the U.S. and the Americans wrapped up the...
Trump says he’ll skip an ABC debate with Harris in September and wants them to face off on Fox News
CHAPIN, S.C. — Donald Trump says he is pulling out of a scheduled September debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC and wants them to face off on Fox News, making it increasingly unlikely that the candidates will confront each other on stage before the November election. In a...
Schumer predicts Democrats will keep control of the Senate now that Harris is atop the party ticket
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is predicting that Democrats will keep control of the Senate in the November election and he feels “exhilarated and gratified” by the surge of enthusiasm with Vice President Kamala Harris atop the party’s ticket. Schumer, who played a pivotal role in talking privately...
Simone Biles captures 7th Olympic gold medal by winning women’s vault for 2nd time
PARIS — Simone Biles is getting kind of old for this. Just maybe not too old to keep going. Maybe. Minutes after the American gymnastics star won the seventh Olympic gold of her career Saturday in a vault final that left little doubt that, even at 27, she remains in...
Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz meet for the Olympic tennis men’s singles gold
PARIS — Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz will meet for the men’s tennis singles gold medal at the Paris Olympics on Sunday in the latest installment of a fascinating old-vs.-young rivalry that included a matchup in the Wimbledon final three weeks ago. Alcaraz won that one — “Quite comfortably,” Djokovic...
Giants’ Blake Snell throws 1st career no-hitter in 3-0 win over the RedsVideo
CINCINNATI — Blake Snell pitched his first career no-hitter Friday night, striking out 10 as the San Francisco Giants beat the Cincinnati Reds, 3-0. The reigning NL Cy Young Award winner walked three and threw 114 pitches, 78 for strikes, in his first complete game in 202 major league starts....
Ravens’ offensive line in flux after losing 3 starters in the offseasonVideo
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Patrick Mekari’s versatility could be an important asset for the Baltimore Ravens this season. He’s shown he can play both tackle and guard, and the Ravens face some uncertainty at both of those positions. “I just want to play, and I want to help the team,”...
A complete list of Paris Olympics medal winnersVideo
PARIS — The 2024 Olympics are underway. The United States led the medal standings after the sixth day of competition with host France second and China third, but more winners will join the list every day from July 27-Aug. 11. See which countries lead the medal count and the highlights...
Favre challenges a judge’s order that blocked his lead attorney in Mississippi welfare lawsuit
JACKSON, Miss. — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre says a Mississippi judge improperly blocked his lead attorney from representing him in a state civil lawsuit that seeks to recover misspent welfare money. Using another of his attorneys, Favre filed an appeal Thursday asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to overturn the...
Olympic cheers fill the air as fans return for a 10,000-meter masterpiece and more at the trackVideo
SAINT-DENIS, France — The ear-splitting roars raining down on the track and field stars in the Stade de France felt like eight years of pent-up energy flowing out at once. They were for distance runner Joshua Cheptegei, who stamped his mark on a masterpiece of a 10,000-meter race to set...
U.S. Homeland Security halts immigration permits from 4 countries
SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration has temporarily suspended permits for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to enter the United States and stay up to two years amid concerns about fraud by their financial sponsors, officials said Friday. Nearly 500,000 people from the four countries arrived through June under presidential...
Flavor Flav helps Olympic discus thrower Veronica Fraley who said she struggles to pay the rentVideo
SAINT-DENIS, France — Vanderbilt discus thrower and Olympian Veronica Fraley lamented on social media that she needed help paying the rent. Hip-hop artist Flavor Flav and entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian decided to help. Soon after Fraley posted on social media platform X that she was in need of financial assistance, Flav,...
Ohio expected to launch recreational marijuana sales next week
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Recreational marijuana sales in Ohio are likely to start next week. The state intends to issue operation certificates Tuesday that will allow existing medical marijuana dispensaries to begin selling nonmedical pot products, the Division of Cannabis Control said Friday. Several dispensaries have said they will be ready...
Analysis: Simone Biles’ greatest power might be the toughness that’s been there all alongVideo
PARIS — In the early days after she was adopted by her grandparents, Simone Biles, a preschooler at the time, put herself in charge of younger sister Adria. Part of it was Biles doing what big sisters do. Part of it was trying to give Adria something familiar to hold...
Léon Marchand completes his dominating run through the Paris Olympics, capturing 4th swimming goldVideo
NANTERRE, France — Léon Marchand held up four fingers. One for every gold medal at the Paris Olympics. His dominating run through the Summer Games is complete. With French President Emmanuel Macron among the more than 15,000 fans cheering him on in person, Marchand captured his fourth swimming gold with...
Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz will play for the men’s singles gold at the 2024 OlympicsVideo
PARIS — Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz will face each other for the 2024 Olympics tennis men’s singles gold medal after lopsided victories in the semifinals Friday. Djokovic is 37, which makes him the oldest man to play in a Summer Games final. Alcaraz is 21, which makes him the...
U.S. men routed 4-0 by Morocco and eliminated from Olympic soccer tournament in quarterfinalsVideo
PARIS — This is where the Olympics end for the United States men’s soccer team. Routed 4-0 by Morocco in the quarterfinals Friday, a run that had seen the U.S. reach the knockouts for the first time since Sydney 2000 was ended in brutal fashion. “To go down in the...
Nvidia facing antitrust probe, report says
NEW YORK — Antitrust tensions are heating up in the chipmaking industry. Rivals have accused Wall Street darling Nvidia of abusing its market dominance in selling chips that power artificial intelligence — and the U.S. Justice Department is investigating these complaints, technology news site The Information reported. According to the...
What Americans still remain in Russian prisons?
The U.S. and Russia on Thursday completed their largest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history, a deal involving 24 people, many months of negotiations and concessions from other European countries who released Russians in their custody as part of the exchange. But not all Americans came home. Some still are being...
Trump election subversion case returned to trial judge following Supreme Court opinion
WASHINGTON — The criminal case charging former President Donald Trump with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election was returned Friday to the trial judge in Washington after a Supreme Court opinion last month that narrowed the scope of the prosecution. The case was formally sent back to U.S. District...
