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Salt Lake City Olympic bid projects $4 billion in total costs to stage 2034 Winter Games
Organizers for the proposed 2034 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City released their first budget estimate Monday, projecting total costs of just under $4 billion, with $2.84 billion of that slated for operational costs. The committee said even though there will be 40% more events than the last time Salt...
Celtics beat Mavericks 105-98, take 2-0 lead in NBA Finals as series heads to Dallas
BOSTON — Jrue Holiday led the scoring. Derrick White added a chase-down block. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown pitched in, too — with their passing and defense. The Mavericks can stop worrying about who Boston’s best player is. Everyone is contributing to the Celtics’ quest for an unprecedented 18th NBA...
Jurors in Hunter Biden’s gun trial begin deliberating whether he’s guilty of federal firearm charges
WILMINGTON, Del. — Jurors in Hunter Biden’s gun trial began deliberating Monday to decide whether the president’s son is guilty of federal firearms charges over a revolver he bought when prosecutors say he was addicted to crack cocaine. He is charged with three felonies in the case that has laid...
How an Israeli raid freed 4 hostages and killed at least 274 Palestinians in Gaza
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — They arrived in the middle of the day, when the squat concrete buildings of the Nuseirat refugee camp are stifling and the narrow streets outside are filled with people. No one suspected a thing until the shots rang out. The Israeli raid caught everyone off...
Far-right gains in the EU election deal stunning defeats to France’s Macron and Germany’s Scholz
BRUSSELS — Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union and made major gains in parliamentary elections Sunday, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to French President Emmanuel Macron. On a night where the 27-member bloc palpably shifted to the right, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni more than doubled...
NBA Finals notes: Rudy Tomjanovich wins lifetime achievement award
Rudy Tomjanovich was moved to tears by his latest award, only because he had no idea it was coming or that he was even under consideration. The Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and two-time NBA champion coach with the Houston Rockets was announced Sunday as this year’s recipient of the...
Blue Jays pitcher Yusei Kikuchi embarrassed after colliding with A’s opponent chasing foul pop
OAKLAND, Calif. — Even on a day when he wasn’t pitching, Toronto Blue Jays left-hander Yusei Kikuchi ended up right in the middle of the action. Not in a way he wanted, though. Kikuchi cost his team an out by bolting from the dugout and colliding with an opponent on...
Stanley Cup Final notes: Healthy Eetu Luostarinen is boon for Panthers
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A year after a broken leg sidelined Eetu Luostarinen for the Stanley Cup Final, the flexible Finn is healthy this time around. That’s a big deal for the Florida Panthers in their pursuit of the first championship in franchise history. Luostarinen made several noticeable defensive plays...
How well do you know a century’s worth of U.S. Open golf trivia?
How well do you know the U.S. Open? Try this quiz (answers at the bottom): 1. Where was the first U.S. Open played? a.) Pinehurst No. 2 b.) Newport c.) Shinnecock Hills 2. Who is the only player to complete the career Grand Slam at the U.S. Open? a.) Tiger...
Giants veteran tight end Darren Waller retires at age 31
New York Giants tight end Darren Waller announced his retirement from playing football Sunday, saying he “found a lot of joy” in the sport, but “the passion has slowly been fading.” In a nearly 18-minute video posted on his YouTube channel, the 31-year-old Waller confirmed he’s stepping away from the...
McDavid, Draisaitl and the Oilers hope to avoid Stanley Cup Final frustration
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Leon Draisaitl is nothing if not self-aware. Before the Stanley Cup Final, the versatile Edmonton Oilers forward acknowledged he’s a good hockey player and has a special skillset that makes him that way. The day after he and Connor McDavid lost their first foray into the...
Kyle Larson celebrates NASCAR playoff waiver with another win
SONOMA, Calif. — Kyle Larson celebrated NASCAR approving his participation in the playoffs with his third Cup victory of the season — a Sunday win at his home track. The victory for Larson, who grew up 80 miles away from Sonoma Raceway in Elk Grove, was his second on the...
Panthers say they have to be better in Game 2 after beating Oilers in Game 1
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Up 1-0 in Round 1 against Tampa Bay, the Florida Panthers said they had to get better. Down 1-0 in Round 2 against Boston, they said it again. Up 1-0 in the Eastern Conference Final against the New York Rangers, same thing. And now, leading the...
Scottie Scheffler holds on to win Memorial for 5th PGA Tour title
DUBLIN, Ohio — Scottie Scheffler had more stress than he wanted Sunday at the Memorial and got the victory everyone has come to expect. On a Muirfield Village course so demanding only six players broke par, Scheffler had his highest final round in nearly two years at 2-over-par 74, and...
Rodeo bull hops fence at Oregon arena, injures 3 before being captured
SISTERS, Ore. — A rodeo bull hopped a fence surrounding an Oregon arena and ran through a concession area into a parking lot, injuring at least three people before wranglers caught up with it, officials said. The crowd at the 84th Sisters Rodeo in the city of Sisters was singing...
Trump to undergo probation interview Monday, a required step before his New York sentencing
Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to be interviewed by New York probation officials Monday, a required step before his July sentencing in his criminal hush money case, according to three people familiar with the plan. Trump will do the interview via a computer video conference from his residence at...
Coroner: Human remains found in former home of Johnstown man convicted in slaying of wife
JOHNSTOWN — Human remains have been found in the former residence of a man convicted last week of murder in the death of his wife, authorities said. The (Johnstown) Tribune-Democrat reports that 48-year-old Brian Giles lived with Nancy Giles in an apartment in the Johnstown house before she went missing...
Princeton’s Sarah Fillier is preparing for upcoming PWHL draft, where Canadian projected to go 1st
Sarah Fillier has a degree from Princeton, but she’s opting for a pro hockey career by entering the PWHL draft on Monday. The projected No. 1 pick from Canada took a moment to cherish her past six years in college. On the ice, Fillier capped a four-year college career —...
Carlos Alcaraz tops Alexander Zverev at the French Open for his 3rd Grand Slam title at age 21
PARIS — As Carlos Alcaraz began constructing his comeback in Sunday’s French Open final, a 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 victory over Alexander Zverev for a first championship at Roland Garros and third Grand Slam title in all, there arrived the sort of magical shot the kid is making a...
Mets rally in ninth to beat Phillies, 6-5, and split London Series, getting game-ending double play
LONDON — Catcher Luis Torrens turned Nick Castellanos’ bases-loaded slow roller in front of the plate into a game-ending double play, and the New York Mets hung on to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5 on Sunday for a split of their two-game London Series. New York rallied from a 4-3...
Trump complains about his teleprompters at a scorching Las Vegas rally
LAS VEGAS — Former President Donald Trump rallied voters in the scorching heat of Las Vegas, at points telling his supporters to ask for help if needed and appearing irritable with the teleprompters that he said were not working. The presumptive GOP nominee’s campaign hired extra medics, loading up on...
Biden honors U.S. war dead with a cemetery visit ending a French trip that served as a rebuke to Trump
BELLEAU, France — President Joe Biden closed out his trip to France by paying his respects at an American military cemetery that Donald Trump notably skipped when he was president, hoping his final stop Sunday helped draw the stakes of the November election in stark relief. Before returning to the...
‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ boosts Will Smith’s comeback and the box office with $56 million opening
NEW YORK — “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” the fourth installment in the Will Smith-Martin Lawrence action comedy series, opened with an estimated $56 million in theaters over the weekend, handing Hollywood a much-needed summer hit and Smith his biggest success since he slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards....
Howard University cuts ties with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs after video of attack on Cassie
Howard University is cutting ties to Sean “Diddy” Combs, rescinding an honorary degree that was awarded to him and disbanding a scholarship program in his name, after a recently released 2016 video that appeared to show him attacking the R&B singer Cassie. “Mr. Combs’ behavior as captured in a recently...
From women pastors to sexual abuse to Trump, Southern Baptists have a busy few days ahead of them
Thousands will gather in Indianapolis June 11-12 for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. The meeting comes at a fraught time in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Messengers — as voting delegates are known — will vote on whether to establish a constitutional ban on churches with women...
