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Simone Biles dazzles in her return from a 2-year layoff to dominate the US Classic 08/06/2023 05:31pm • HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) ��� Simone Biles spent two years trying to distance herself from those strange days in Tokyo and all the outside noise that came along with it. She dove into therapy and slowly ��� very slowly ��� returned to training even though she wavered on whether she was really up fo Simone Biles is trying to enjoy the moment after a two-year break. The Olympic talk can come later 08/06/2023 04:42pm • HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) ��� Simone Biles is well aware of how the drill goes. She's lived it. Multiple times at this point. Whenever the gymnastics star goes to work, the questions about the Olympics come, no matter where the Games fall on the calendar. ���It's just like when you get married (and As clinics pivot post-Roe, battle rages over syringe service in opioid-ravaged West Virginia 08/06/2023 01:46am • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� Staff at Women's Health Center of West Virginia know what it's like to provide controversial health services that government officials have sought to ban or restrict. The Charleston clinic was the state's only abortion provider for years until the state Legislature passed Racist abuse by Mississippi officers reveals a culture of misconduct, residents say 08/06/2023 12:03am • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Monica Lee sat outside her parents' home, where a former Mississippi sheriff���s deputy pummeled her son, who died hours later in the hospital. It was a sweltering afternoon in Braxton ��� the same town where, in a separate episode, six white law enforcement officers tortured Today in History: Aug. 6, U.S. drops atom bomb on Hiroshima 08/06/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Sunday, Aug. 6, the 218th day of 2023. There are 147 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb code-named ���Little Boy��� on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an Vigil held as search for missing Greenbelt teacher continues 08/05/2023 08:40pm • Still holding out hope that a missing Maryland teacher might be found, the Greenbelt, Maryland, community gathered Friday night to rally around each other in honor of 60-year-old Mariame Toure. Toure, who also goes by the name of Mariame Sylla ��� or "Madame Sylla" as she's known by students 3 Indian soldiers are killed in Kashmir gunfight on the 4th anniversary of special status revocation 08/05/2023 10:17am • SRINAGAR, India (AP) ��� Three Indian soldiers were killed in a gun battle with rebels fighting against New Delhi���s rule in Kashmir, officials said Saturday, as authorities stepped up security on the fourth anniversary since India revoked the disputed region���s special status. The battle broke ou A Virginia Beach man won the right to keep an emotional support emu. Now, he���s running for office. 08/05/2023 09:01am • VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) ��� Nicholas Olenik has battled mental health challenges throughout his life. As a sometimes anxious child, it took longer for him to process emotions. Four years ago, the 41-year-old fell into a depression when his brother died from a heart attack. The dark days of the pand The buzz around Simone Biles' return is papable. The gymnastics star seems intent on tuning it out 08/04/2023 06:40pm • HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL (AP) ��� Ignore the wedding band and it could have been 2019 for Simone Biles. Or 2016. Or 2014. Long before Tokyo. Long before the "twisties.��� Long before two years off in which the gymnastics star took a step back, took a long look at the arc of her record-setting career and Oppressive heat, wildfires expected to worsen globally, experts say 08/04/2023 05:17pm • Blistering heat, large wildfires and warming oceans from North America across Europe to North Africa have caught hundreds of millions of people in dozens of countries unprepared this year. Experts warn it will only get worse in the short term, even if critical changes are made immediately. In ear Russell Peters, first-ever comic with Netflix special, cracks up MGM National Harbor near DC 08/04/2023 02:07pm • Hear our full chat on my podcast ���Beyond the Fame with Jason Fraley.��� His mantle holds a Gemini, Peabody and Emmy as one of Rolling Stone's 50 Best Comics of All Time. This Saturday night, Russell Peters cracks up MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. "It's my act that I'll be Judge's decision could force change in Michigan's handling of newborn blood samples 08/04/2023 01:32pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� The state of Michigan must return or destroy dried blood samples from nine newborns or get approval from parents to keep them, according to the latest scathing opinion from a federal judge who found parts of a routine testing program unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Thomas Ludi NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 08/04/2023 12:23pm • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ No, Trump is not facing the death penalty on his Kashmir leader says the region lacks democracy and asks India to restore its special status 08/04/2023 08:31am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Kashmir���s top pro-India politician had a stark message Friday ��� the eve of the fourth anniversary since India revoked the disputed region���s special status, throwing the Himalayan territory into political chaos: ���Democracy stops where the boundaries of Jammu and Kashmir beg 'TMNT: Mutant Mayhem' continues lasting legacy of 'Turtle Power' 08/04/2023 04:14am • "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" have blockbuster competition at the box office this weekend as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" hopes to bring families to movie theaters like "The Super Mario Bros. Movie." Directed by Jeff Rowe ("The Mitchells vs. The Machines"), the computer-animated