CHICO, Calif. (AP) — Fire crews battling California’s largest wildfire this year have corralled a third of the blaze aided in part by cooler weather, but a return of triple-digit temperatures could allow it to grow, fire officials said Sunday. Cooler temperatures and increased humidity gave firefighters “a great opportunity to make some good advances”
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — Nigeria is headed to the quarterfinals, the first African team to ever make it that far at the Olympics. The reward is a matchup with seven-time defending champion U.S. in Paris on Wednesday. The Olympic women’s basketball draw was announced late Sunday night. The other matchups were Spain against Belgium, France
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The woeful Chicago White Sox lost their 20th consecutive game Sunday, the majors’ longest skid in 36 years and one short of the American League record, as Chris Flexen was chased early in a 13-7 defeat against the Minnesota Twins. Royce Lewis hit a three-run homer off Flexen in a six-run second
PARIS (AP) — The American men are finally matching the women at the Paris Olympics , where the female athletes went into the halfway mark with a 9-0 lead in individual gold medals for the United States. The men wearing red, white and blue found a groove on Sunday — Day 9 of the Games.
PARIS (AP) — Americans Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes advanced to the beach volleyball quarterfinals on Sunday night despite losing a set for the first time at the Paris Olympics . The U.S. women won 21-18, 17-21, 15-12. They will play Switzerland’s Tanja Hueberli and Nina Brunner, who beat Spain earlier Sunday. In the other
PARIS (AP) — Stephen Nedoroscik is leaning into his newfound stardom as a geeky, bespectacled, Rubik’s Cube-solving video gamer who just won two bronze medals at the Paris Olympics . “It’s still just surreal to me. I wake up in the morning, I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m a two-time Olympic medalist!’ It is so
PARIS (AP) — Japan won its second fencing gold medal of the Paris Olympics by beating Italy 45-36 in the last bout of the Games in the men’s team foil final Sunday. Japan’s alternate, Yudai Nagano, came in for the eighth leg and gave Japan a commanding lead with a 5-0 matchup with Italy’s replacement
PARIS (AP) — Steven van de Velde, the Dutch beach volleyball player who was convicted of raping a 12-year-old British girl in 2016, was eliminated from the Paris Olympics on Sunday night when he and partner Matthew Immers lost to Brazil in straight sets. In his fourth and final match, Van de Velde was again
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Noah Lyles won the Olympic 100 meters by .005 seconds Sunday, waiting some 30 seconds after the finish of an excruciatingly close sprint to find out he’d beaten Kishane Thompson of Jamaica. The word “Photo” popped up on the scoreboard after Lyles and Thompson dashed to the line. Lyles paced the
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ordinary Americans are “getting whacked” by too many laws and regulations, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says in a new book that underscores his skepticism of federal agencies and the power they wield. “Too little law and we’re not safe, and our liberties aren’t protected,” Gorsuch told The Associated Press in an
