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QB Caleb Williams oversees 2 field-goal drives in preseason debut as Bears rout Bills
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Though the ever-confident quarterback never doubted himself, Caleb Williams still found his NFL preseason debut performance reassuring in helping lead the Chicago Bears to a 33-6 win over the Buffalo Bills on Saturday. After all, it had been nearly nine months since the rookie No. 1...
Steph Curry’s late barrage of 3-pointers lifts U.S. past France for Olympic goldVideo
PARIS — Stephen Curry was thinking about this two years ago after winning his fourth NBA title. The only thing left for him to win was Olympic gold. And in the ultimate moment, he made sure that medal would be his. The U.S. is atop the international men’s basketball world...
Richmond up next as NASCAR returns from Olympic break for final 4 races of regular seasonVideo
Firmly on the playoff bubble, Chris Buescher can take solace in the fact that this upcoming part of the schedule was so good to him last year. Not that he’s taking anything for granted. “Three of the next four races we’re heading into, we were able to win last year,”...
Ferguson officer critically injured at protest on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death
FERGUSON, Mo. — A Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was critically injured outside the city’s police station during protests on the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a pivotal moment in the national Black Lives Matter movement, police said Saturday. Ferguson police chief Troy Doyle said Officer Travis...
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas romp to 1,600 relay win for U.S.Video
SAINT-DENIS, France — Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Gabby Thomas teamed up for America’s 14th gold and 34th overall medal at the track Saturday, wrapping up the Olympic action at the Stade de France with a 4.23-second runaway in the women’s 1,600 relay. The gold medalists in the 400 hurdles and 200...
Court ruling could lead to Jordan Chiles losing her bronze medal
PARIS — Romania’s Ana Barbosu could replace American Jordan Chiles as the Olympic bronze medalist in gymnastics floor exercise after the Court of Arbitration for Sport voided an appeal from Chiles’ coach that vaulted her onto the podium. CAS ruled Saturday that the on-floor appeal by U.S. coach Cecile Landi...
France defends men’s volleyball Olympic gold medal, beating Poland in front of a wild home crowd
PARIS — Jean Patry and his jubilant French teammates locked shoulders, formed a circle, then jumped and danced. They kept bouncing on their side of the net for several minutes while the raucous home crowd joined right along and shook the stands. France defended its Olympic gold medal in men’s...
American b-boy Victor among quarterfinalists in Olympics’ 1st men’s breaking event
PARIS — B-boy Victor, an American two-time world champion, was among eight dancers to advance to the quarterfinals of the Olympics first men’s breaking tournament Saturday. Victor Montalvo, the U.S. favorite, won battles against two Japanese b-boys, including b-boy Hiro10 (Hiroto Ono). That win drew loud boos from the many...
U.S. women net 5th Olympic gold medal in soccer with a 1-0 win over Brazil in final
PARIS — At just the right moment, Mallory Swanson yelled at teammate Sophia Smith not to go near the ball as it came through. Swanson knew Smith was offside. But Swanson wasn’t. “I was like, ‘Don’t touch it! Leave it, leave it, leave it!’” Swanson said. “And then it was...
Cringy moves and a white b-girl’s durag prompt questions about Olympic breaking’s authenticity
PARIS — From the Australian b-girl with the meme-worthy “kangaroo” dance move to the silver-medal winning Lithuanian in a durag, breaking’s Olympic debut had a few moments that raised questions from viewers about whether the essence of the hip-hop art form was captured at the Paris Games. Rachael Gunn, or...
Travis Scott is released from police custody after arrest over a Paris hotel altercation
PARIS — Travis Scott was released from French police custody without a charge after his arrest at a Paris hotel following an altercation with a security guard, French prosecutors said Saturday. In a statement, the Paris prosecutor’s office said, “the police custody order for Travis Scott has been lifted and...
Debby finally moves out of the U.S., though risk from flooded rivers remains
Debby finally moved out of the U.S. on Saturday after the storm spent the better part of week unleashing tornadoes and flooding, damaging homes and taking lives as it moved up the East Coast after first arriving in Florida as a hurricane. Debby’s last day over the U.S. before blowing...
Torture of 9/11 suspects means even without plea deal, they may never face a verdict
WASHINGTON — A Defense Department disagreement over how to bring to justice the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and two others has thrown the cases into disarray and surfaced tension between the desire of some victims’ families to see a final legal reckoning and the significant obstacles that...
Israeli airstrike on a Gaza school kills at least 80 people, Palestinian health officials say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza early Saturday, killing at least 80 people and wounding nearly 50 others, Palestinian health authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks of the 10-month war between Israel and Hamas. A witness said it struck during prayers...
Kamala Harris makes an immigration pitch in Arizona as she fights to gain ground in the Sun Belt
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Vice President Kamala Harris drew on her prosecutorial background to make her first expansive pitch on immigration to border-state voters as she and her new running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, attracted thousands to a campaign rally during their tour of battleground states. Harris, the former attorney...
Trump campaign projects confidence and looks to young male voters for an edge on Harris
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — As Donald Trump adjusts to the reality of his new race against Kamala Harris, his campaign is counting on younger male voters to give him the edge in November in a presidential contest they insist is his to lose. Trump and his Republican campaign now...
Large geological feature known as the ‘Double Arch’ and the ‘Toilet Bowl’ collapses in southern Utah
PAGE, Ariz. — A large geological feature in southern Utah known as the “Double Arch,” the “Hole in the Roof” and sometimes the “Toilet Bowl” has collapsed, National Park Service officials said Friday. No injuries were reported. The popular arch in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area fell Thursday, and...
Iran is accelerating cyber activity that appears meant to influence the U.S. election, Microsoft says
NEW YORK — Iran is accelerating online activity that appears intended to influence the U.S. election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said Friday. Iranian actors also have spent recent months creating fake news sites and impersonating activists, laying the groundwork to stoke...
Trump headlines Montana rally after plane makes emergency landing
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Donald Trump traveled to Montana for a Friday night rally intended to drum up support for ousting the state’s Democratic senator, but the former president’s plane first had to divert to an airport on the other side of the Rocky Mountains because of a mechanical issue, according...
Last known intact U.S. slave ship is too ‘broken’ and should stay underwater, a report recommends
MOBILE, Ala. — The last known U.S. slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers and historians announced following a yearslong investigation. The task force headed by the Alabama Historical...
Harvard rebuffs protests and won’t remove Sackler name from two buildings
BOSTON — Harvard University has decided against removing from campus buildings the name of a family whose company makes the powerful painkiller OxyContin, despite protests from parents whose children fatally overdosed. The decision last month by the Harvard Corporation to retain Arthur M. Sackler’s name on a museum building and...
U.S. men win volleyball bronze medal at the Paris Olympics, beating Italy in straight setsVideo
PARIS — As of this moment, Matt Anderson is planning to make another go at an Olympic gold medal in men’s volleyball four years from now. At age 41. If his body holds up. If his young family is all in on the idea. Four-time U.S. Olympians Anderson and David...
Helen Maroulis gets bronze, becomes 1st American woman to win 3 Olympic wrestling medalsVideo
PARIS — Helen Maroulis emphatically pushed her name back atop the list of U.S. women’s Olympic wrestling medalists. Maroulis pinned Canada’s Hannah Taylor in 24 seconds to claim bronze medal in the 57-kilogram freestyle category on Friday. She is the first American woman to claim three Olympic medals, following her...
Sha’Carri Richardson rallies U.S. women in Olympic 4×100 while men shut out againVideo
SAINT-DENIS, France — Sha’Carri Richardson made her first Olympic gold-medal moment memorable, giving the sprinters behind her the side-eye, then stomping her foot to the track on her final step across the finish line. Afterward, she moved aside to watch the U.S. men do what they do best in the...
Breanna Stewart, U.S. women’s basketball team advance to gold medal game at Paris OlympicsVideo
PARIS — Breanna Stewart and the U.S. women’s basketball team cruised to a familiar place: the Olympic gold medal game. Stewart led a balanced offense as the Americans beat Australia, 85-64, on Friday in the semifinals to extend their Olympic winning streak to 60 consecutive games dating to the 1992...
