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Wrexham is halfway to the Premier League under Ryan Reynolds. Expect things to get much tougher now 08/09/2024 08:29am • Wrexham is at the halfway stage of its unlikely journey toward the Premier League. Next stop: League One. Hot off a successful preseason tour to the west coast of the United States, the Welsh club co-owned by actor Ryan Reynolds begins its domestic season on Saturday with a home match against Wycomb Democrats and Republicans descend on western Wisconsin with high stakes up and down the ballot 08/09/2024 07:20am • EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) ��� For a brief moment this week, the fierce competition for swing voters in swing-state Wisconsin converged on the tarmac of the tiny Chippewa Valley Regional Airport. Minutes after Vice President Kamala Harris landed with her new running mate Tim Walz for their first campaign AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Vermont's state primaries 08/09/2024 07:06am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Two Democrats will compete in Vermont���s state primary on Tuesday for the right to challenge four-term Republican Gov. Phil Scott in November. The race is the highest profile of a handful of contested primaries on the ballot. Voters will also decide primaries for lieutenant gove Pakistan celebrates Arshad Nadeem's Olympic gold medal in javelin 08/09/2024 06:24am • MIAN CHANNU, Pakistan (AP) ��� Pakistanis are celebrating the country's first Olympic gold medal in decades after Arshad Nadeem set an Olympic record in javelin to beat defending champion Neeraj Chopra of India on Thursday night. Nadeem's throw of 92.97 meters easily surpassed the previous mark of 9 Krist��f Rasovszky of Hungary wins Olympic men's marathon to complete swimming events in the Seine 08/09/2024 05:59am • PARIS (AP) ��� There were plenty of concerns about swimming in the long-polluted Seine River. When the final gold medal was handed out Friday, everyone seemed thrilled to have taken a nearly two-hour dip in the the iconic waterway. Krist��f Rasovszky of Hungary wrapped up Olympic events in the Sein The scrutiny Khelif and Lin face over their sex at the Olympics is a repeating problem in sports 08/09/2024 05:21am • It's 15 years ago this month that a teenage runner from South Africa was publicly scrutinized over her sex at a major sports event. The lesson everyone was meant to take from that was: never again. Yet, the humiliation Caster Semenya faced has been repeated for two women competing in boxing at the P Belarus Olympic sprinter who was in an airport standoff in Tokyo finds a new life running for Poland 08/09/2024 05:17am • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) ��� Three years ago, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya's Olympics ended in a dramatic standoff at a Tokyo airport when officials from the Belarus team tried to send her home against her will. She's back at the Paris Olympics representing a new country and looking to settle some unfin AP Week in Pictures: Global 08/09/2024 04:00am • Aug. 2���8, 2024 Severe drought returned to Brazil, the 2024 Paris Olympics entered their last week and people in Bangladesh staged massive protests that drove Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images published in the past week by The Associ Chi Chi Rodriguez, Hall of Fame golfer known for antics on the greens, dies at 88 08/09/2024 02:02am • Juan ���Chi Chi��� Rodriguez, a Hall of Fame golfer whose antics on the greens and inspiring life story made him among the sport���s most popular players during a long professional career, died Thursday. He was 88. Rodriguez's death was announced by Carmelo Javier R��os, a senator in Rodriguez���s n Nevada man accused of hate crime acknowledged in police interview that he referenced 'hanging tree' 08/09/2024 01:16am • RENO, Nevada (AP) ��� A Nevada man charged with a hate crime acknowledged he referenced a ���hanging tree��� during a verbal altercation with a Black man who was gathering signatures for a proposed ballot measure southeast of Reno, according to a criminal complaint made public Thursday. Gary Miller, Haniger hits 3-run double in ninth to rally Mariners to 4-3 win over Tigers 08/09/2024 01:09am • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Mitch Haniger hit a game-ending three-run double as the Seattle Mariners rallied to beat the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Thursday night. Luke Raley, who homered in the bottom of the sixth to get Seattle on the scoreboard after Detroit led 3-0, opened the ninth with a single against Tyler Gray runs for 2 touchdowns as the Giants beat the Lions 14-3 in a preseason game with few starters 08/09/2024 12:18am • EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) ��� With the starters on both teams getting a chance to rest in the preseason opener, second-year pros Tommy DeVito and Eric Gray used the opportunity to make a case for themselves in the eyes of coach Brian Daboll as the New York Giants posted a 14-3 victory over the Detr Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homers and extends hitting streak to 20 games as Blue Jays beat Orioles 7-6 08/08/2024 11:06pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered for the 10th time in 20 games and drove in four runs, Kevin Gausman pitched eight innings to win his fourth straight decision and the Toronto Blue Jays survived a late rally to beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-6 on Thursday night. With his Hall of Fame fath Top-seeded Coco Gauff beats Yafan Wang 6-4, 6-2 in Toronto in her first hard-court match since April 08/08/2024 10:54pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Top-seeded Coco Gauff routed Yafan Wang 6-4, 6-2 on Thursday in the second round of the National Bank Open. Preparing for her U.S. Open title defense, Gauff played her first hard-court match since the Miami Open in April. ���It���s not easy transitioning from all these different sur Defending champion Jannik Sinner beats Borna Coric in Montreal in return from tonsillitis 08/08/2024 10:38pm • MONTREAL (AP) ��� Top-ranked Jannik Sinner opened his National Bank Open title defense with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Borna Coric on Thursday in the second round of the National Bank Open. Sinner missed the Olympics because of tonsillitis after a quarterfinal loss to Daniil Medvedev at Wimbledon. In J