Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. Follow along for live updates from today’s events. PARIS (AP) — Someone is going to have a very difficult task on Saturday. Someone is going to have to place a medal around the neck of a man who is every bit of 7-foot-4
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. Follow along for live updates from today’s events. PARIS (AP) — Guerschon Yabusele scored 17 points and France beat Germany 73-69 in front of a raucous crowd to advance to the men’s Olympic basketball gold medal game. Isaia Cordinier added 16 points and
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Business groups in Mexico warned Thursday of economic damage to companies and thousands of regular citizens as a protest blockade of Mexico’s main east-west highway reached its second full day. Farmers blockaded the highway between Mexico City and Puebla Tuesday. By Thursday, some truckers and drivers had spent almost two full
Olympics live updates: Noah Lyles seeks another gold in men’s 200M final 1 of 5 | Noah Lyles, of the United States, competes during the men’s 200-meter semifinal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) 2 of 5 | Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, of the United States, leads in a women’s
NEW YORK (AP) — After 13 months of what felt like an endless breaking of heat records, the streak came to an end last month — just barely. The European climate agency Copernicus said Thursday that July 2024’s average heat just missed surpassing July of last year . While the slightly cooler month is good
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (AP) — World champion Ellesse Andrews of New Zealand won the Olympic title in the women’s keirin at the Paris Games on Thursday night, holding off Dutch rider Hetty van de Wouw and Britain’s Emma Finucane at the finish line. It
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — Germany beat defending Olympic champion Norway in the semifinals of the men’s beach volleyball tournament at the Paris Games on Thursday, clinching at least a silver medal. The Canadian women are also headed to the finals after beating Switzerland. Tokyo
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Wings are expecting the return of Satou Sabally and Maddy Siegrist soon after the Olympic break but might have trouble keeping Odyssey Sims, who has been the second-leading scorer filling in for the injury-plagued team. Sabally, a
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. Gold-medal-winning Olympic gymnasts Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey are heading back to school. Chiles and Carey — part of the “Golden Girls” squad led by Simone Biles that soared to gold in Paris last week — have both announced they are returning to
MIAMI (AP) — Federal investigators say they found the DNA of a decorated former U.S. Green Beret on some of the 60 automatic weapons he allegedly smuggled from Florida to South America as part of a failed 2020 coup attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The allegations were detailed in court papers filed days after
