The Latest: The 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony is underway with Lady Gaga performing, parades and more. The ceremony came hours after suspected acts of sabotage targeting trains. Follow AP’s live coverage. PARIS (AP) — The Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony got underway after a rough start to the Summer Games on Friday, with rainy skies
The Latest: The 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony is underway with Lady Gaga performing, parades and more. The ceremony came hours after suspected acts of sabotage targeting trains. Follow AP’s live coverage. PARIS (AP) — The Nigeria women’s basketball team wasn’t allowed to board the delegation’s boat for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics
Warner Bros. Discovery has sued the NBA after the league did not accept the company’s matching offer for one of the packages in its upcoming 11-year media rights deal. The lawsuit was filed on Friday in New York state court in Manhattan. WBD, the parent company of TNT Sports, is seeking a judgement that it
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador thanked Guatemala on Friday for helping the nearly 600 Mexicans who have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence , but also minimized the violence that drove them there. In his first comments since the refugees fled earlier this week, the president went on
The Latest: The 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony is underway with Lady Gaga performing, parades and more. The ceremony came hours after suspected acts of sabotage targeting trains. Follow AP’s live coverage. PARIS (AP) — Lady Gaga delivered a dazzling performance as the first musical act during the Paris Olympics 2024 opening ceremony — except
PARIS (AP) — Six South Korea swimmers have left the Olympic village to move to a hotel closer to their venue, the Korea Times reported Friday. Korea Swimming Federation president Chong Chang-hoon cited concerns over the lengthy commute to La Defense Arena as the reason for the change for the members of the country’s men’s
Once the opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics is over, competition begins in earnest all across France. There are plenty of gold medals at stake on Saturday. There’s swimming and tennis all day long. And several stars will be in action. Here are the biggest storylines to follow on the first full day of
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances filed a lawsuit Friday challenging amendments to the island’s net metering law, which compensates solar-equipped households for their contributions to the grid, triggering a backlash. The lawsuit filed against Gov. Pedro Pierluisi aims to protect the independence of the Puerto Rico
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scores of wildfires across the United States and Canada have scorched swaths of land in California, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Alberta and beyond, forcing evacuations and road closures, as well as destroying and threatening structures. Air quality advisorie s and alerts have been issued in some affected areas. Here’s the latest on
PARIS (AP) — A massive security operation has been deployed Friday in Paris to keep the opening ceremony of the Olympics safe. The capital’s streets are blocked off, squadrons of police are on patrol and imposing metal-fence security barriers have been erected like an iron curtain on both sides of the River Seine. Up to
