PARIS (AP) — Field hockey will have mixed gender on-field umpiring at the Paris Games , which the sport’s governing body said was a first in Olympic play. The International Hockey Federation, or FIH, announced the move Sunday. The organization has had mixed gender umpiring at other tournaments but never before in the Olympics. “Gender
HOUSTON (AP) — The lawyer of a powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who is now in U.S. custody pushed back Sunday against claims that his client was tricked into flying into the country, saying he was “forcibly kidnapped” by the son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada had eluded authorities for decades
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — LeBron James made his Olympic return after a 12-year absence. Kevin Durant played for the first time this summer. And the two most-experienced Olympians on this U.S. team opened the Paris Games — not to mention a bid for a fifth consecutive gold medal for the Americans — with a near-perfect
PARIS (AP) — Brody Malone has spent the last 16 months defying the odds, improbably coming back from a catastrophic right knee injury in the spring of 2023 to reach the Olympics for a second time. When the 24-year-old won his third national title in June , he looked every bit the star the Americans
Monday’s slate for the Paris Olympics includes a handful of the world’s biggest basketball stars, a couple of compelling swimming finals and a gymnastics showdown. Here’s a guide of what to look out for: China and Japan set up for exciting final in men’s gymnastics The men’s gymnastics team final starts at 5:30 p.m. CEST
NANTERRE, France (AP) — Yazan Al Bawwab’s refugee father never reached his goal to become an Olympic swimmer. He had to leave Palestine at 18, bouncing around Europe and the Middle East, even selling tomatoes in Italy at one point to get by. Eventually opening a furniture business in Dubai, Rashad Al Bawwab made sure
FOREST RANCH, Calif. (AP) — Wildfires across the western United States and Canada put millions of people under air quality alerts Sunday as thousands of firefighters battled the flames , including the largest wildfire in California this year. The so-called Park Fire had scorched more than 550 square miles (1,430 square kilometers) of land in
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians urged their government to do more to get Russia to release prisoners of war, voicing their anger on Sunday at a ceremony commemorating the second anniversary of an explosion that killed more than 50 . Several thousand soldiers and civilians gathered at Kyiv’s Independence Square Sunday to commemorate the second
NEW YORK (AP) — Edna O’Brien, Ireland’s literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel “The Country Girls” before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast that found her welcomed everywhere from Dublin to the White House, has died. She was 93. O’Brien died Saturday after a long illness
PARIS (AP) — Steven van de Velde, the Dutch beach volleyball player who served time in prison for having sex with a 12-year-old girl, received a mixture of boos and applause when he was introduced before losing his opening match on Sunday at the Paris Olympics . Van de Velde did not speak to reporters
