Basketball and Biles: US hoops team watches Simone win yet another gold medal
AP Basketball Writer PARIS (AP) — True to their word, the U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team showed up to see Simone Biles at the Paris Games.…
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Sea lions are stranding themselves on California’s coast with signs of poisoning by harmful algae
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Sea lions are stranding themselves on a long stretch of the California coast and showing signs that they may have been…
Continue Reading 14-month-old boy rescued after falling down narrow pipe in the yard of his Kansas home
Associated Press Emergency crews have rescued a terrified and screaming toddler after he fell into a narrow pipe and got stuck around a dozen feet…
Continue Reading The Snoop Olympics: Paris proving a boon to NBC after interest waned in Tokyo, Beijing games
AP Media Writer Less than a week in, the Paris Olympics are turning out to be a good story for NBC. Ratings are significantly up after the Tokyo and…
Continue Reading Korean Air says turbulence is knocking instant noodles off its economy menu
AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Turbulence is knocking a beloved instant noodle offering off Korean Air’s economy menu. Cups of Shin Ramyun…
Continue Reading Hamas leader’s assassination sheds light on a long history of alleged Israeli attacks in Iran
Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Explosions in secretive underground nuclear facilities. Cyber-attacks. Top scientists poisoned. Natural…
Continue Reading Cardi B files for divorce from Offset, posts she’s pregnant with their third child on Instagram
AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cardi B has filed for divorce from her husband, rapper Offset. A representative for Cardi B confirmed the news to…
Continue Reading Two couples drop wrongful death suit against Alabama IVF clinic and hospital
Associated Press/Report For America MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Two couples who sued an Alabama hospital and in-vitro fertilization clinic where their…
Continue Reading ‘He had everyone fooled’: Former FBI agent sentenced to life for child rape in Alabama
Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former FBI agent has been sentenced to life behind bars for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl.…
Continue Reading Ohio historical society settles with golf club to take back World Heritage tribal site
Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s historical society has struck a deal that will allow it to take control of ancient ceremonial and…
Continue Reading A woman is arrested in vandalism at museum officials’ homes during pro-Palestinian protests
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman has been arrested on hate crime charges in the vandalism of the homes of the Brooklyn Museum’s leaders…
Continue Reading Montenegro court approves extradition of cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon to native South Korea
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A Montenegrin appeals court has upheld a ruling by a lower court to hand over a South Korean mogul known as “the…
Continue Reading Average rate on a 30-year mortgage falls to 6.73%, lowest level since early February
AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell this week to its lowest level since early February, easing…
Continue Reading Wildfires in Colorado burn dozens of homes and structures, threaten hundreds more
Associated Press LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — A wildfire burning in Colorado’s heavily populated Front Range region has burned dozens of homes and…
Continue Reading Putin called him a patriot. But who is Vadim Krasikov, a Russian released in the mass prisoner swap?
Vadim Krasikov, the Russian at the center of a massive prisoner swap, has long topped the Kremlin’s list for an exchange. President Vladimir Putin…
Continue Reading Former Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker sues university over his firing
Associated Press Former Michigan State University head football coach Mel Tucker is suing the university and school leaders, saying they wrongfully…
Continue Reading Russia releases US journalist and other Americans and dissidents in massive 24-person prisoner swap
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Russia have made their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history. Moscow on Thursday…
Continue Reading As a historic prisoner exchange unfolds, a look back at other famous East-West swaps
Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When Washington and Moscow exchange prisoners, it usually comes after months of secret, back-channel…
Continue Reading Prisoner Swap Latest: Freed Americans return to US soil and emotional welcome
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Russia completed a 24-person prisoner swap on Thursday, the largest in post-Soviet history, with Moscow…
Continue Reading Appeals court upholds Donald Trump’s gag order as he again presses judge to exit hush money case
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court has denied Donald Trump’s bid to end a gag order in his hush money criminal case. The…
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