▶ Follow AP’s live coverage of the 2024 election MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has decided on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate in her bid for the White House. The 60-year-old Democrat and military veteran rose to the forefront with a series of plain-spoken television appearances in the days after
NEW YORK (AP) — Billy Bean, who became the second former Major League Baseball player to come out as gay in 1999 before becoming the sport’s senior vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, has died. He was 60. MLB released a statement confirming his death. Bean died at home on Tuesday after a yearlong
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — Kellie Harrington is an unusual boxing champion. She is passionate only about the amateur version of her pro-dominated sport, and she has long claimed to have no ambitions of being paid to fight. Minutes after she stepped onto the podium
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers has secured the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan and will face Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin in the November election. Slotkin and Rogers, long considered the front-runners for their respective party nominations, will now shift focus to the general election. Slotkin enters with
NEW DELHI (AP) — In a video that lit up social media feeds in Bangladesh, jubilant protesters climbed atop a statue of Sheikh Mujib Rahman, the country’s first leader after independence, and beat it with iron rods and axes as people below hooted and cheered. Crowds across the nation have attacked symbols of Rahman, as
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Three-time world champion Quan Hongchan of China won the gold medal Tuesday in the women’s 10-meter platform at the Paris Olympics to defend her title from Tokyo. Quan set the tone on her first dive, recording a perfect score
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — Lee Jin-man takes a closer look at his photo of Italian diver Giovanni Tocci competing in the men’s 3-meter springboard competition. Why this photo? We take photos of divers in various stages of their jumps, but this one has a
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — Zakia Khudadadi has spent most of her life breaking through glass ceilings. Or rather, smashing through them with a sidekick. The taekwondo Paralympian made history in 2021 in Tokyo , becoming the first Afghan woman to compete in an international
International Olympic Committee WOMEN’S GOLF COMPETITION Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. Site: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. Course: Le Golf National. Yardage: 6,374. Par: 72. Prize: Gold, silver, bronze medals. Television: Wednesday-Friday, 3 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel); Saturday, 3 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Golf Channel). Defending champion: Nelly Korda. Last
MEXICO CITY (AP) — In singer-songwriter Ivan Cornejo’s world, regional Mexican music can have pop, ballads and also a bit of melancholic lyrics. His most recent and third studio album, “Mirada,” is a mixture of styles, without neglecting his interest in modern corridos and sad sierreño. Cornejo, 20, is originally from California. His maternal grandfather
