U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky has won the women’s 800-meter freestyle for her ninth Olympic gold medal. It is the fourth time she has won this event. Ledecky joins Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi, Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, American swimmer Mark…
U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson finished second in the 2024 Olympics women’s 100-meter finals, losing to Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia. Two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica abruptly pulled out of the women’s 100-meter dash, giving no immediate reason for…
Simone Biles won her third gold in the vault final at the 2024 Olympics as part of an action-packed day of events. It is his her seventh Olympic gold medal and 10th overall. Biles performed her iconic namesake vault, the…
Emergency crews in Kansas rescued a toddler after he fell into a narrow pipe and got stuck a dozen feet below ground in the yard of his Kansas home.
By JOE REEDY LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge overturned a jury’s $4.7 billion verdict in the class-action lawsuit filed by “Sunday Ticket” subscribers against the NFL and has granted judgment to the NFL. U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez ruled…
By JONEL ALECCIA The popular deli meat company Boar’s Head is recalling an additional 7 million pounds of ready-to-eat products made at a Virginia plant as an investigation into a deadly outbreak of listeria food poisoning continues, U.S. Agriculture Department officials said Tuesday.…
BY KAITLYN HUAMANI SAN DIEGO (AP) — Marvel Studios returned to San Diego Comic-Con with dancing Deadpool variants and a choir for a panel that included news about the next two “Avengers” films and surprise guests, including Harrison Ford and…
By BARBARA SURK and ANGELA CHARLTON PARIS (AP) — French authorities have foiled several plots to disrupt the 2024 Olympics, including arresting a Russian man in one of them, officials said Wednesday, just days before the opening ceremony of the Summer Games in Paris.…
By GRAHAM DUNBAR PARIS (AP) — What was expected to be a simple coronation of Salt Lake City as the 2034 Winter Olympic host turned into complicated Olympic politics Wednesday, as the IOC pushed Utah officials to end an FBI investigation…
INDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) — A shooting outside a Mississippi nightclub left three people dead and more than a dozen injured over the weekend, authorities said. A large crowd gathered outside a club near the Sunflower County courthouse in Indianola early…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case of former President Donald Trump in Florida has dismissed the prosecution because of concerns over the appointment of the prosecutor who brought the case. U.S. District Judge Aileen…
James Sikking, who starred as a hardened police lieutenant on “Hill Street Blues” and as the titular character’s kindhearted dad on “Doogie Howser, M.D.,” has died at 90. Sikking died of complications from dementia, his publicist Cynthia Snyder said in a statement…
The FBI named Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the suspected shooter behind the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. One attendee was killed and two were…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shannen Doherty, the “Beverly Hills, 90210” star whose life and career were roiled by illness and tabloid stories, has died at 53. Doherty died Saturday, according to a statement from her publicist, Leslie Sloane, given to…
NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Simmons, television’s hyperactive court jester of physical fitness who built a mini-empire in his trademark tank tops and short shorts by urging the overweight to exercise and eat better, died Saturday. He turned 76 on…
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — A shooting at Donald Trump‘s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania is being investigated as an attempted assassination of the former president and presumptive Republican nominee, law enforcement officials say. A shooter is dead and an attendee was killed. Trump’s campaign says he is…
Donald Trump’s campaign said in a statement that he was “fine” after being whisked off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd. “President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their…
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump was whisked off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd. Trump was showing off a chart of border crossing numbers when bangs started ringing through the…
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked a Mississippi law that would require users of websites and other digital services to verify their age. The preliminary injunction by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden came…
BY DÁNICA COTO SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Beryl strengthened into what experts called an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm as it approached the southeast Caribbean, which began shutting down Sunday amid urgent pleas from government officials for…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Beryl has been upgraded to a Category 3 hurricane by the National Hurricane Center on the way to the southeast Caribbean. Hurricane warnings were in effect for Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, and St. Vincent…
BY JAKE COYLE NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Sutherland, the prolific film and television actor whose long career stretched from “M.A.S.H.” to “The Hunger Games,” has died. He was 88. Kiefer Sutherland, the actor’s son, confirmed his father’s death Thursday. No further details were…
BY KIM TONG-HYUNG SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday signed a new partnership that includes a vow of mutual aid if either country faces “aggression,” in a pact that came…
BY MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.…