Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano, erupted on Sunday, spewing out lava and sending large black clouds of ash and smoke into the sky. Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano, erupted on Sunday, spewing out lava and sending large black clouds of ash and smoke into the sky. Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — There will be no repeat medal for Patty Mills at the Paris Olympics. There was, however, another chapter to his legacy in the international game. Maybe the last chapter. Australia and “FIBA Patty” — that’s what people call him when
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — Romania’s Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said Tuesday that he will boycott the Paris Olympics ’ closing ceremony due to a “scandalous situation” that cost a Romanian gymnast a bronze medal. Ana Barbosu had already begun celebrating her bronze for the
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Fickle winds in Marseille have altered the sailing schedule for the 2024 Olympics for the second time, forcing the postponement of the medal races for one-person dinghies on Tuesday. Organizers are hoping to run the men’s and women’s races
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — Vinesh Phogat of India stunned four-time world champion Yui Susaki of Japan with a late takedown to claim a 3-2 decision in their opening match at 50 kilograms at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday. Susaki, the seemingly unbeatable top seed
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — Noah Lyles wasted no time. After winning the 100 meters at the Paris Olympics , he promptly declared what he wanted the most as the newly anointed Fastest Man Alive. “ I want my own shoe ,” he said. “I
Women’s basketball teams are about to move a step closer to getting financially rewarded for success in the NCAA Tournament. The Division I Board of Directors was expected to meet Tuesday and introduce a proposal to give performance units to teams that make March Madness. Units represent revenue. “Unless something very odd happens, and I
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname “hobbits.” Now a new study suggests ancestors of the hobbits were even slightly shorter. “We did not expect that we would find
NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is pushing back a date for a key ruling on presidential immunity until two days before Trump’s scheduled sentencing. The immunity decision had been due Sept. 6, with the sentencing set for Sept. 18. But then Trump’s lawyers asked Judge Juan M. Merchan
Indonesian security forces on Tuesday recovered the body of a New Zealand pilot who was killed in an alleged separatist attack in the restive Papua region, officials said. Glen Malcolm Conning , a helicopter pilot for Indonesian aviation company PT Intan Angkasa Air Service, was shot dead on Monday by gunmen allegedly with the West
