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US men’s 4×400 relay team wins gold at Paris Olympics Show Caption Hide Caption USWNT and US men’s basketball win gold in Paris Mallory Swanson scored in the 57th minute to lead the USWNT to gold, while Steph Curry and company beat France on their home court to win it all. SAINT-DENIS, France – Rai Continue reading

Gavin Newsom took to the streets of California to clean up trash left behind by homeless encampments Thursday, threatening municipalities that if they do not clean up encampments they’ll lose state funding next year. A frustrated Newsom was seen picking up trash from a cleared encampment in Los Angeles — one of the largest hubs Continue reading

PARIS — Victor Wembanyama sat on the bench, tears streaming, and watched the best men’s basketball team in the world celebrate again. Wembanyama, the 20-year-old budding superstar from France, had wept for a good 10 minutes by then. Still, he observed every punishing second. With wet cheeks, he had made it through shaking hands with Continue reading

SAINT-DENIS, France — Since he was a kid growing up in Abbeville, Miss., Shelby McEwen always loved to jump. “Jumping off trampolines, jumping off hay, flipping all the time,” McEwen said. His love of jumping eventually led him to try the high jump in his early 20s, and from there it took him all the Continue reading

LOADING ERROR LOADING The 2024 Paris Olympics are the first Olympic Games to include breakdancing ― officially known as “breaking” ― as an event, and an unlikely competitor has stolen the show. On Friday, Raygun failed to earn even a single point and did not advance beyond the competition’s round-robin stage. Elsa via Getty Images Continue reading

Simeon Burke was supported in court by his parents, Martina and Sean, and siblings, Ammi and Isaac, pictured at an earlier hearing at Cloverhill Court. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin A judge has told remand prisoner Simeon Burke that he is in custody voluntarily but could be released with “one flick of a pen” and Continue reading

LOADING ERROR LOADING A Montana man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl in 1996 died by suicide last month, a day after police questioned him about the teen’s cold case, the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday. Paul Hutchinson, 55, was questioned by authorities July 23, after DNA evidence collected in Danielle “Danni” Houchins’ death Continue reading

Photograph: PA/Niall Carson The former principal of Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath was “absolutely horrified” when teacher Enoch Burke interrupted a school religious service asking her to withdraw her “demand” that teachers “accept transgenderism”, the High Court has heard. Niamh McShane said she also felt “agitated” and “hunted” when Mr Burke approached her at Continue reading

Elon Musk, self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist,” is demanding the government infringe on free speech rights. Despite his posturing as a defender of free expression, Musk is one of the nation’s most vexatious litigants against anybody who exercises their First Amendment rights in a way he doesn’t like. X’s CEO, Linda Yaccarino, posted a video on Continue reading

Tim Walz as her running mate in the 2024 election, the website domain “HarrisWalz.com” sold for $15,000. It was a tidy profit for domain owner Jeremy Greene Eche, who bought it for around $9 in 2020. Eche is what is known as a “domain squatter,” someone who buys up low-cost web addresses with the intention Continue reading