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Police in Ohio fatally shot a pregnant shoplifting suspect
BLENDON, Ohio — Police in a Columbus suburb fatally shot a pregnant woman in an Ohio supermarket parking lot after she accelerated her car toward an officer, police officials said. Ta’Kiya Young, 21, of Columbus, died Thursday evening in Blendon. A supermarket employee told officers who were at the store...
Trump and 18 others charged in Georgia election case scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 6
ATLANTA — Former President Donald Trump and the 18 people indicted along with him in Georgia are scheduled to be arraigned next week on charges they participated in a wide-ranging illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. All 19 defendants, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani...
U.S. Open filled with players making comebacks from retirement, pregnancy, injury
NEW YORK — Comebacks are nothing new in tennis. There’s quite a history of that sort of thing, including by stars such as Martina Navratilova, John McEnroe, Martina Hingis, Bjorn Borg, Kim Clijsters and Andy Murray. Perhaps that’s why so many fans of Serena Williams hold out hope she’ll return...
Poll: Biden widely seen as too old for office, but Trump has other problems
WASHINGTON — Americans actually agree on something in this time of raw discord: Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president in a second term. Only a few years his junior, Donald Trump raises strikingly less concern about his age. But they have plenty of other problems with...
Jacksonville killings refocus attention on city’s racist past and the struggle to move on
By some measures, the city was making strides to emerge from its racist past. But the killing of three Black people Saturday by a young, white shooter was a painful and startling reminder that the remnants of racism continue to fester in Jacksonville, Florida. What happened in Jacksonville, said longtime...
Pope says ‘backward’ U.S. conservatives have replaced faith with ideology
ROME — Pope Francis has blasted the “backwardness” of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church, saying they have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic doctrine allows for change over time. Francis’ comments were an acknowledgment of the divisions in the U.S. Catholic Church, which...
Evacuation order finds few followers in northeastern Ukraine despite Russia’s push in region
KUPIANSK, Ukraine — The thunder of mortar fire echoes in the distance as 5-year old David approaches his mother with an innocent request: Can he play with the baseball bat a relative gave him as a gift? Valeria Pototska rolls her eyes and tells her son no for the umpteenth...
A Marine Osprey crashes during drills in Australia, killing 3 and injuring 20, some critically
CANBERRA, Australia — A United States Marine Corps aircraft with 23 Marines aboard crashed on a north Australian island Sunday, killing at least three and critically injuring at least five during a multinational training exercise, officials said. Three had been confirmed dead on Melville Island and five were flown in...
Arizona State imposes 1-year bowl ban for potential violations under Herm Edwards
TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona State issued a self-imposed one-year bowl ban amid an NCAA investigation for possible infractions incurred under former football coach Herm Edwards. The ban announced Sunday is a preemptive step as the NCAA investigates the Sun Devils for alleged recruiting violations during the covid-19 pandemic. “Arizona State...
Simone Biles wins a record 8th U.S. Gymnastics title a full decade after her firstVideo
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A decade later, Simone Biles is still on top. The gymnastics star won her record eighth U.S. Championship on Sunday night, 10 years after she first ascended to the top of her sport as a teenage prodigy. Biles, now a 26-year-old newlywed considered perhaps the greatest...
Simone Biles wins record 8th U.S. Gymnastics title after taking 2-year breakVideo
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A decade later, Simone Biles is still on top. The gymnastics star won her record eighth U.S. Championship on Sunday night, 10 years after she first ascended to the top of her sport as a teenage prodigy. Biles, now a 26-year-old newlywed considered perhaps the greatest...
Viktor Hovland wins FedEx Cup, $18M prize with best 2 weeks of his careerVideo
ATLANTA — Viktor Hovland played the best golf of his life in the final two weeks of the PGA Tour season, and it paid off Sunday with the biggest trophy of his career — a FedEx Cup title along with the $18 million bonus. Staked to a six-shot lead, Hovland...
California wins Little League World Series over Curacao on walk-off homerVideo
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — Louis Lappe hit a walk-off homer and California beat Curacao 6-5 in the Little League World Series championship on Sunday, despite giving up a four-run lead. Louis flipped his bat and threw his arms in the air as he trotted around the bases, leaping onto home plate...
Trump campaign reports raising more than $7 million after Georgia booking
NEW YORK — For former President Donald Trump, a picture is worth … more than $7 million. Trump’s campaign says he has raised $7.1 million since Thursday when he was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in...
Recent winners Chris Buescher and William Byron open NASCAR playoffs as unwitting favoritesVideo
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Chris Buescher and William Byron have this in common: Neither wants to declare himself the favorite heading into the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Both have a strong case, though. Buescher won three of the last five regular-season races, including the finale Saturday night at Daytona International...
Frances Tiafoe, other U.S. men know it’s been 20 years since Andy Roddick’s U.S. Open titleVideo
NEW YORK — They were 10 words, 10 simple and factual and essentially harmless words — “It’s 20 years since Andy Roddick won the singles here … ” Yet as soon as that phrase hung in the air at Frances Tiafoe’s pre-U.S. Open news conference, and before the question could...
Dolphins WR Daewood Davis released from hospital after being carted off with injuryVideo
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Miami Dolphins rookie wide receiver Daewood Davis was released from a Jacksonville hospital Sunday morning and is in the NFL’s concussion protocol after he was carted off the field during the fourth quarter of Miami’s preseason game against the Jaguars on Saturday night. Miami coach Mike...
Man killed, another wounded in shooting steps away from Philadelphia’s Independence HallVideo
PHILADELPHIA — At least two people were killed and three others were wounded in gun violence in Philadelphia over the weekend, including a man who was gunned down near Independence Hall, authorities said. A 29-year-old man was shot shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday steps away from the tourist attraction where...
Tropical Storm Idalia takes aim at Gulf of Mexico on a possible track toward the U.S., forecasters sayVideo
MIAMI — Tropical Storm Idalia formed Sunday off the coast of Mexico on a potential track to come ashore as a hurricane in the southern U.S., the National Hurricane Center said. At 5 p.m. Sunday, the storm was about 95 miles east-southeast of Cozumel, Mexico, moving northeast at 3 mph...
Sheriff provides the first details of how a white man fatally shot 3 Black people at a Florida storeVideo
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A 21-year-old white man fatally shot three Black people in Florida with guns bought legally despite his once being involuntarily committed for a mental health exam, the local sheriff said Sunday. Ryan Palmeter shot one of his victims as she sat in her car outside a Jacksonville...
Chris Buescher wins at Daytona, eliminating Chase Elliott and helping Bubba Wallace land final NASCAR playoff berth
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Chris Buescher has become a NASCAR title contender in less than a month. Buescher won the Cup Series regular-season finale at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday night, eliminating fan favorite Chase Elliott from playoff contention and sending Bubba Wallace into the postseason. Buescher and teammate Brad...
Viktor Hovland shoots 66 for 6-shot lead at Tour Championship to close in on FedEx Cup titleVideo
ATLANTA — Viktor Hovland delivered another sterling performance, this time starting from the top that allowed him to pull away Saturday in the Tour Championship with a 4-under-par 66 that gave him a six-shot lead going into the final round of the PGA Tour season. That leaves the Norwegian star...
Hartman throws 4 TD passes as No. 13 Notre Dame opens with a 42-3 win over Navy in IrelandVideo
DUBLIN — Sam Hartman threw for four touchdowns in his Notre Dame debut, and the No. 13 Fighting Irish routed Navy, 42-3, on Saturday in a season-opening victory in Ireland’s capital. Notre Dame (1-0) scored at will by air and on the ground against the Midshipmen (0-1), improving to 3-0...
Former Cup Series champ Kurt Busch formally retires while still recovering from concussionVideo
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Kurt Busch, the 2004 NASCAR champion who stepped away from racing last season after a significant concussion, officially retired Saturday at Daytona International Speedway. Busch, 45, held back tears as he called it quits while sitting on the same stage where he celebrated one of his...
The 49ers’ heavy investment in Trey Lance backfires, but it hasn’t destroyed the franchiseVideo
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Few teams ever have invested as much capital into acquiring a player as the San Francisco 49ers did when they traded three first-round picks to draft Trey Lance. And few teams have ever cut ties with a highly drafted quarterback as quickly as San Francisco did...
