Tahiti welcomed the 2024 Olympic surfing event on Friday with blazing sunshine, songs and Polynesian culture honoring the sport’s ancient roots, a world away from the rain of the Games’ opening ceremony in Paris.
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Mike Trout has received good medical news for a change. The Los Angeles Angels star said an MRI on his left knee came back clean and he is hoping to resume his rehab soon. “It is a huge relief for me. I just want make sure it feels
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The Olympic table tennis tournament kicks off on Saturday, with action in men’s singles, women’s singles and mixed doubles. China will look to continue its table tennis dominance and add to its already historic 32 gold medals.
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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two weeks after Donald Trump’s near assassination, the FBI confirmed Friday that it was indeed a bullet that struck the former president’s ear, moving to clear up conflicting accounts about what caused the former president’s injuries after a gunman opened fire at a Pennsylvania rally. “What struck former President
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — The Raiders do run seven-on-seven drills in training camp, but coach Antonio Pierce has made it known he prefers all 11 on each side going against each other. And when the Raiders have put their front four on the practice field this week with the rest of
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Get ready for the opening day of swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics with event-by-event previews, lane assignments and predictions.
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Ireland’s Shane Lowry had the honor of being one of his country’s flag bearer on Friday at the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers found over 100 pounds of meth in a truck.
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is turning to AI-powered scanners in a new bid to keep guns out of its subway system. But the pilot program launched Friday is already being met with skepticism from riders and the threat of a lawsuit from civil liberties advocates who say the searches are
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — Two U.S. senators are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate automakers selling customers’ driving data to brokers who package it and then sell it to insurance companies. In a letter Friday to FTC Chairwoman Linda Khan, Democrats Ron Wyden of Oregon, and Edward Markey of Massachusetts allege that General Motors,
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former FBI officials have settled lawsuits with the Justice Department to resolve claims that their privacy was violated when the department leaked to the news media text messages that they had sent one another that disparaged former President Donald Trump. Peter Strzok, a former top counterintelligence agent who played
Continue Reading Associated Press PAPARA, Tahiti (AP) — Tahitian dancers in palm leaf skirts mingled with surfers, locals and tourists as the opening ceremony for the Games commenced in French Polynesia on Friday morning, some 10,000 miles away from Paris. Steps from the ocean and near the lush green mountains of Tahiti, the event was heavily focused
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Strong winds coming soon for the Desert Southwest as temperatures will drop slightly.
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Govs. Wes Moore, D-Md., J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., and Chris Sununu, R-N.H. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Preempted by coverage of the Olympics. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M.; Rep. Michael
Continue Reading ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria reminded France of a particularly dark chapter of its colonial past during the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics. Algerian athletes brought red roses on their boat as they paraded for the event. Then they tossed the flowers into the river to honor victims of an infamous 1961 police crackdown
Continue Reading Associated Press Lansing (AP) — Federal judges have given final approval to new boundaries for several Detroit-area state legislative seats. The decision ended a case in which the court found that race illegally influenced the old district maps. The court ordered the seats to be redrawn after a group of Black residents argued in a
Continue Reading AP National Writer PARIS (AP) — French Olympic gold medalists Teddy Riner and Marie-José Pérec teamed to light the cauldron for the Paris Olympics to end an elaborate but rain-soaked opening ceremony. Riner won three golds in judo and Pérec won three in athletics, becoming the first sprinter to win consecutive golds in the 400-meter
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Excessive heat and humidity will continue through tonight. Thankfully this weekend we will be a lot drier with seasonable temperatures.
Continue Reading Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Celine Dion made a triumphant return Friday with a very public performance, closing out the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony from the Eiffel Tower. Nearly two years after revealing her stiff person syndrome diagnosis, Dion belted Edith Piaf’s “Hymne à l’amour” (“Hymn to Love”) as the finale of the roughly four-hour
Continue Reading Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials have denied clemency to a man who is set to be executed for the 1998 killing of his girlfriend’s mother. Taberon Dave Honie is scheduled to die by lethal injection Aug. 8. Honie had asked the state parole board to commute his sentence to life in
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