ATLANTA (AP) — Two rallies. Two Americas. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump stood in the same arena four days apart, each looking over capacity crowds like concert stars or prizefighters. The competing events were staged three months before Election Day in the state that produced the closest margin of the 2020
WALDORF, Md. (AP) — One child was killed and another was injured after a wind gust blew a bounce house into the air at a baseball game in Maryland on Friday night, local officials said. Local emergency personnel received a call in Waldorf, Maryland, at about 9:21 p.m. Friday from the Regency Furniture Stadium reporting
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — It was a winless stay for Canada at the Paris Olympics. At least it got a closer look at Syla Swords — the future of its women’s basketball program. The 18-year-old Swords became the youngest Canadian basketball player to compete in the Olympics . “I still don’t really think I believe
PARIS (AP) — Emotional and unable to hold back tears, Carlos Alcaraz needed a moment to compose himself after losing to Novak Djokovic in the men’s tennis singles final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday. There would be no youngest-ever champion and no repeating Rafael Nadal’s feat of winning a gold medal for Spain in
PARIS (AP) — The first medal for any Russian athlete at the 2024 Olympics — technically not representing their country, but competing as neutrals , because of the war on Ukraine — came in tennis on Sunday, when Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider got a silver in women’s doubles. Andreeva and Shnaider lost the final
PARIS (AP) — Belgium’s Olympic committee announced Sunday that it would withdraw its team from the mixed relay triathlon at the Paris Olympics after one of its competitors who swam in the Seine River fell ill. Claire Michel, who competed in the women’s triathlon Wednesday, “is unfortunately ill and will have to withdraw from the
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — Jackie Young scored 19 points and the U.S. showed off its incredible depth Sunday night, beating Germany 87-68 in the Americans’ final game of pool play. A’ja Wilson added 14 points, and Breanna Stewart had 13. With the victory, the Americans clinched the top seed in their pool and extended their
NANTERRE, France (AP) — Bobby Finke set a world record in the 1,500-meter freestyle Sunday, giving the United States a huge boost on the final night of swimming at the Paris Olympics. But the giddiness was quickly erased when the Americans lost the men’s 4×100 medley relay at the Summer Games for the first time.
PARIS (AP) — There is a freedom that Sunisa Lee feels when she’s on the uneven bars that’s hard for her to describe. Sure, there’s anxiety before every routine. Funny how it melts away the second that familiar combination of wood and fiberglass hits her grips. At that point, the American gymnastics star just sort
PARIS (AP) — Kristen Faulkner timed her attack to perfection to win the women’s road race at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, becoming the first American rider in 40 years to win a medal in the event. The 158-kilometer (98-mile) route started and finished in Paris, with Faulkner crossing the line at the Trocadéro in
