Live updates: Follow AP’s coverage of the 2024 Olympics in Paris as Simone Biles wins another gold, Sha’Carri Richardson goes for her first and Katie Ledecky tries for another. Stephen Nedoroscik’s meticulous attention to details and rituals do not stop with his pommel horse routine. Outside the gym, the American athlete can be obsessive, too.
MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Germany and defending champion Canada played to a scoreless draw before going to extra time in the quarterfinals of the Olympic women’s soccer tournament on Saturday. Canada has been dogged by a drone-spying scandal throughout the tournament. The winner goes on to play the United States in a semifinal on Tuesday
NANTERRE, France (AP) — Summer McIntosh of Canada stamped herself as one of the swimming stars of the Paris Olympics with her third individual gold medal Saturday night. The 17-year-old chased down American Alex Walsh and held off another U.S. swimmer, Kate Douglass, to finish in an Olympic record of 2 minutes, 6.56 seconds. Douglass
The head of a group of family members of victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks said Saturday that she’s hearing nearly unanimous praise of the U.S. defense secretary’s nullification of plea deals for the accused 9/11 mastermind and two others that would have removed the death penalty as a possibility. The American Civil Liberties
A gallery of highlights on Day 8 of the Olympics captured by AP photographers at the Paris Games. ___ AP Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images Blog , Instagram , Twitter
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Thousands of people rallied in the streets of Venezuela’s capital Saturday, waving the national flag and singing the national anthem in support of an opposition candidate they believe won the presidential election by a landslide. Authorities have declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner of last Sunday’s election but have yet to
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — Memo to the French fans: Joel Embiid plays in Philadelphia. The fans in Philly are, in a word, passionate. And those years of being on stage for the 76ers’ faithful has prepared him for these Paris Olympics. In a very odd way, that is. “Playing in Philly,” Embiid said, “they boo
Live updates: Follow AP’s coverage of the 2024 Olympics in Paris as Simone Biles wins another gold, Sha’Carri Richardson goes for her first and Katie Ledecky tries for another. SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Sha’Carri Richardson overcame a slow start Saturday to qualify for the Olympic 100-meter final later that night despite finishing second to Julien
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian security forces on Saturday fired bullet rounds and teargas at several journalists and protesters during demonstrations against the country’s economic crisis in the capital city, Abuja, according to journalists at the scene and videos reviewed by The Associated Press. It was not immediately confirmed whether the projectiles fired at journalists
It’s an area of low atmospheric pressure, thunderstorms and wind sloshing out of the Caribbean Sea across Cuba, into the Gulf of Mexico and toward Florida . But by the time it dissipates, weather forecasters may have called it by five different names. First it was Invest 97L, then it was Potential Tropical Cyclone Four.
