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Bethesda man wants a ticker-tape parade for Katie Ledecky 08/13/2024 10:40am • Bethesda, Maryland's Seth Engel is a man with a mission. He wants Olympian Katie Ledecky celebrated with a ticker-tape parade. "I am serious," Engel said, "I have pushed this at every level I can." The long time C-SPAN producer said a ticker-tape parade, with its mounds of confetti raining dow The violence in Bangladesh after Hasina's ouster stirs fear within the country's Hindu minority 08/13/2024 10:31am • KHULNA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� When a mass uprising forced Bangladesh���s longtime prime minister to step down and flee the country last week, a 65-year-old retired auditor who had worked for her political party feared for his life. Arobinda Mohalder, who is part of Bangladesh���s Hindu minority, had j PGA Tour postseason begins and LPGA starts gearing up for final major in Scotland 08/13/2024 10:15am • PGA Tour FEDEX ST. JUDE CHAMPIONSHIP Site: Memphis, Tennessee. Course: TPC Southwind. Yardage: 7,243. Par: 70. Prize money: $20 million. Winner's share: $3.6 million. Television: Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (NBC). Sunday, noon-2 p.m. (Golf Ch Alyssa Milano to make her Broadway debut in the razzle-dazzle musical 'Chicago' this fall 08/13/2024 09:30am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Alyssa Milano hopes to charm audiences when she makes her Broadway debut this fall in the musical ���Chicago,��� adding her celebrity to a show that skewers celebrity culture. ���The beauty of theater is that you get to try new things every night,��� she tells The Associated Press. Trump and Musk talk about assassination attempt and deportations during glitchy chat on X 08/13/2024 07:16am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump recounted his assassination attempt in vivid detail and promised the largest deportation in U.S. history during a high-profile return to the social media platform formerly known as Twitter ��� a conversation that was plagued by technical glitches. ���If I had not turne AP Top 25 Reality Check: How each ranked teams' season could go wrong 08/13/2024 07:10am • We interrupt this optimistic time of year for some pessimism. The preseason AP Top 25 is out and college football fans all over the country can dream about how this year it all comes together for their team. Teams that begin the season ranked can be especially hopeful ��� but maybe curb your enthusi Ed Sheeran's favorite team Ipswich among promoted trio looking to survive in the Premier League 08/13/2024 07:08am • One of them delivered an underdog story for the ages, winning the title at preseason odds of 5,000-1 in 2016. Another was a mainstay in the league for 11 years on the back of its famous conveyor belt of young talent. The other's back story in England's top division is from pretty much a generation a Russian artist released in swap builds a new life in Germany, now free to marry her partner 08/13/2024 06:39am • KOBLENZ, Germany (AP) ��� Sasha Skochilenko and Sofya Subbotina are planning to get married. That wasn't an option in their native Russia, but it's possible now that they live in Germany, which recognizes same-sex weddings. ���We don���t know how or in which city we will do it, but that���s the plan Yemen���s Houthis seized UN rights office in Sanaa, UN official says 08/13/2024 06:18am • CAIRO (AP) ��� Yemen���s Houthi rebels stormed the headquarters of the United Nations��� Human Rights Office in the capital, Sanaa, seizing documents, furniture and vehicles, a senior U.N. official said Tuesday. The seizure was the latest move in a crackdown by the Houthis on people working with the Liberty aims to defend C-USA title as favorite in Year 2, though challenges loom from several teams 08/13/2024 06:10am • Liberty not only proved with coach Jamey Chadwell that it could win as a new arrival to Conference USA last season, but take that success to another level. An unprecedented 13-0 regular season that included the league championship, its first in FBS. A high-profile New Year's Six appearance in the Fi Sale and Snell lock horns in scoreless duel before Braves beat Giants 1-0 in 10 innings 08/13/2024 01:59am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Chris Sale and Blake Snell put on a pitching show Monday night in a matchup of aces before the Atlanta Braves edged the San Francisco Giants 1-0 on pinch-hitter Travis d'Arnaud's sacrifice fly in the 10th inning. ���It was a grind from the start,��� Sale said. ���Snell is abou Francis fires gem, Wagner gets 3 hits in MLB debut as Blue Jays beat Angels 4-2 08/13/2024 01:36am • ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) ��� Bowden Francis pitched seven dominant innings and Will Wagner got hits in the first three at-bats of his major league debut as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Los Angeles Angels 4-2 on Monday night. Leo Jim��nez launched his first career home run and the last-place Blue Jays Bogaerts has RBI single, Merrell makes game-saving catch in 9th as Padres beat Pirates 2-1 08/13/2024 01:29am • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� Xander Bogaerts had an RBI single in the seventh inning, Jackson Merrell made a game-saving diving catch in the ninth inning, and Joe Musgrove had a solid return from the 60-day injured list as the San Diego Padres beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 on Monday night. The Padres won fo In one region of Senegal, girls can become wrestlers ��� and win. But only until marriage 08/13/2024 01:15am • MLOMP, Senegal (AP) ��� It���s almost dusk, and the West African heat is finally faltering. In Mlomp, a village in southern Senegal, dozens of teenagers in colorful jerseys are throwing each other to the ground to the rhythm of Afrobeats against a backdrop of palm trees. It's a common sight across S Diamondbacks take lead on back-to-back wild pitches, rally for 5-4 win over the Rockies 08/13/2024 01:12am • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Corbin Carroll and Kevin Newman scrambled home on back-to-back wild pitches in the seventh inning, and the Arizona Diamondbacks erased a three-run deficit to beat the Colorado Rockies 5-4 on Monday night for their fourth straight win. The D-backs continued their extended roll, with