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Freddie Crittenden takes full advantage of track's new repechage rule to earn place in hurdles final 08/07/2024 02:58pm • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) ��� Taking the easy road has never been the way for American hurdler Freddie Crittenden, and he certainly didn't change at the Olympics. Crittenden advanced to the final of the 110-meter hurdles Wednesday, three days after he intentionally exploited a new ���repechage��� rul Paris Olympics food donations seek to help needy, contribute to sustainability and set an example 08/07/2024 02:55pm • PARIS (AP) ��� It is quite literally the food of champions. Paris Olympics organizers are determined that it not go to waste. Food that goes uneaten at the Games ��� by the athletes, the spectators and the workers ��� is helping those in need around the French capital, part of an effort to cut down French guard Marine Johannes wows crowd with no-look passes and off-balance 3's 08/07/2024 02:51pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Marine Johannes has been sensational for France, wowing the crowd nearly every time she touches the basketball. Whether it's making an off-balance, one-legged 3-pointer or throwing a pinpoint no-look pass for a easy lay-in, France's star guard has been incredible so far in the women's NASA delays next crew launch to buy more time at the space station for Boeing's troubled capsule 08/07/2024 01:38pm • NASA is delaying its next astronaut launch to buy more time at the International Space Station for Boeing���s troubled new crew capsule. The space agency said Tuesday it���s bumping SpaceX���s four-person flight from this month to next. It���s now targeted for Sept. 24 at the earliest. Officials sa Fugitive ex-Catalan leader plans return to Spain despite threat of arrest over failed secession bid 08/07/2024 01:00pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Carles Puigdemont, the former leader of Catalonia who fled Spain after organizing an illegal independence referendum in the wealthy Spanish region seven years ago, announced that he plans to return home on Thursday despite the likelihood of being arrested on his return. Pu Who is Yahya Sinwar, the new leader of Hamas? 08/07/2024 12:24pm • Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, has been announced as the new leader of the militant group Hamas. He rose to the top position after the killing of the previous leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in an explosion in Iran that has been blamed on Israel. Some things to know about Juri Vips to return to Rahal Letterman Lanigan at Portland in fourth Honda for third IndyCar start 08/07/2024 12:20pm • ZIONSVILLE, Ind. (AP) ��� Juri Vips will return to Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing for a third IndyCar Series start at the Grand Prix of Portland that will give the team four Honda entries for the Aug. 25 race. The Estonian driver, who turns 24 on Sunday, will join Graham Rahal, Pietro Fittipaldi and It's some Olympic rematches in the Paris basketball semifinals, with US-Serbia and Germany-France 08/07/2024 10:47am • PARIS (AP) ��� U.S. coach Steve Kerr knows something unexpected is going to happen when his team plays against Serbia in the semifinals of the Paris Olympics. Maybe Serbia will change its lineup. Maybe Nikola Jokic will play the entire game. Or maybe the surprise will be that there's no surprise at US setter Jordyn Poulter recovers from serious knee injury to lead Americans into Olympic semifinals 08/07/2024 10:20am • PARIS (AP) ��� Moments before match point of the Olympic quarterfinals, Jordyn Poulter punched herself in the outer thigh. It wasn't a motivational tactic ��� she's plenty good at getting herself fired up. No, the American setter was making sure blood kept flowing around her surgically repaired lef Disney's streaming business is profitable for first time, but slowing US park business ups anxiety 08/07/2024 10:14am • Disney returned to a profitable third quarter as its combined streaming business started making money for the first time, along with a very strong showing in theaters for the movie ���Inside Out 2.��� Operating income for the entertainment segment, which includes its movie studio and parts of its t Today in Sports - The original U.S. 'Dream Team' wins the basketball gold at the Barcelona Olympics 08/07/2024 10:00am • Aug. 8 1902 ��� The United States, led by William Larned, beats Britain three matches to two to capture the Davis Cup. 1903 ��� Britain wins the Davis Cup by beating the United States 4-1. 1936 ��� At the Berlin Olympics, the United States finishes 1-2-3 in the men���s decathlon. Glenn Morris sets a Crashes, cramps and accusations run rampant during heated Olympic track and field qualifying session 08/07/2024 09:55am • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) ��� Pushing and shoving in one race on the track. A cameraman walking into the action in another. Leg cramps and untimely misses in the field. The often-routine qualifying rounds at Olympic track and field took some strange turns Wednesday with a four-man pileup in one men�� Federal infrastructure funding is fueling a push to remove dams and restore river habitat 08/07/2024 09:06am • BOONE, N.C. (AP) ��� On the whooshing Watauga River, excavators claw at the remains of Shulls Mill Dam, pulling concrete apart piece by piece and gradually opening a waterway kept in check for nearly two centuries. Removal of this privately-owned hydropower dam in western North Carolina will be a bo Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou set to debut for PFL 08/07/2024 08:45am • Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou is set to return to MMA when he makes his Professional Fighters League debut in October, stepping back inside the cage after a pair of high-profile paydays in boxing. Ngannou fights 2023 PFL heavyweight champion Renan Ferreira on a PFL pay-per-view sup Polish man sentenced to four months, deported from Denmark for June assault on Danish prime minister 08/07/2024 07:03am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� A Polish man on Wednesday was sentenced to four months in jail for assaulting the Danish prime minister as well as separate sexual harassment charges. He will also be deported and banned from returning to Denmark for the next six years. The unidentified 39-year-old man,