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Americans are 'getting whacked' by too many laws and regulations, Justice Gorsuch says in a new book 08/04/2024 03:16pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Ordinary Americans are ���getting whacked��� by too many laws and regulations, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says in a new book that underscores his skepticism of federal agencies and the power they wield. ���Too little law and we���re not safe, and our liberties aren���t pr When L��on Marchand swims, nearly all of France watches - even fans at other Olympic events 08/04/2024 02:49pm • PARIS (AP) ��� The popularity of French swimmer L��on Marchand has caused some problems at the Olympics. It's a distraction, at least for some. At the tennis venue on Wednesday night, Austin Krajicek was serving for the match in doubles against Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz when fans at Roland Gar Back injury robs Evan Carter of chance to follow up on remarkable debut with Rangers 08/04/2024 02:49pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Evan Carter never really had a chance to follow up on a remarkable debut that helped the Texas Rangers on their way to a World Series title last year. A slow start turned into a nagging lumbar strain in his back, which ultimately led to general manager Chris Young's recent VP's campaign launches 'Republicans for Harris' in push to win over GOP voters put off by Trump 08/04/2024 01:26pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign on Sunday was launching ���Republicans for Harris��� as she looks to win over Republican voters put off by Donald Trump's candidacy. The program will be a ���campaign within a campaign,��� according to Harris' team, using well-known Republic One church, two astronauts. How a Texas congregation is supporting its members on the space station 08/04/2024 08:33am • About 10 miles from Johnson Space Center, a Houston-area church takes a moment during Wednesday Bible studies and Sunday evening services to pray for two members who cannot be there. In fact, there���s no way on Earth for NASA astronauts Barry ���Butch��� Wilmore and Tracy Dyson to show up at Provi Two table tennis players are competing in the Paris Olympics and Paralympics 08/04/2024 08:12am • PARIS (AP) ��� Two table tennis players will enjoy the full experience of the Paris Games. Brazil's Bruna Alexandre and Australia's Melissa Tapper are participating in the Olympics and the upcoming Paralympics, joining a select list of athletes who have done the Summer Games double. Among them was O Cristina Bucsa and Sara Sorribes Tormo win the Olympic women's tennis doubles bronze for Spain 08/04/2024 07:35am • PARIS (AP) ��� Cristina Bucsa and Sara Sorribes Tormo won the women's tennis doubles bronze medal for Spain at the Paris Olympics ��� just their second event as a team ��� by defeating Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-2 on Sunday. Bucsa and Sorribes Tormo earned Spain' Kentucky Republicans ridicule Beshear's efforts to land spot on national Democratic ticket 08/04/2024 07:33am • Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's efforts to land the No. 2 spot on the Democratic presidential ticket drew ridicule from prominent Republicans during the Bluegrass State's premier political event. U.S. Rep. James Comer lampooned the governor for trying to ���reinvent his image from a wimpy choir boy to Jamaica's Shericka Jackson a no-show at 200 meters and won't race for individual medal at Olympics 08/04/2024 07:25am • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) ��� Jamaican sprinter Shericka Jackson pulled out of the women's 200 meters Sunday and will not race for an individual medal at the Paris Games. Jackson, the defending world champion who is the second-fastest woman of all time in the 200, had previously withdrawn from the 10 Mixed-gender boats start racing in 1st Games with equal sailing medal chances for men and women 08/04/2024 05:49am • MARSEILLE, France (AP) ��� The mixed-gender boats ��� both dinghies and a multihulls ��� took to the Mediterranean on Friday and Saturday in Marseille for the 2024 Olympics, just as the first medal races in skiffs and windsurfing were held. The first one-man, one-woman crew in the Olympics sailed in 'My first example of a public servant': DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, community leaders mourn death of Joe Bowser 08/04/2024 04:57am • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said she's heartbroken about the passing of her father, Joe Bowser, who died Friday. He was 88 years old. In a statement on his death, Mayor Bowser said that she owes her career in public service to her father. "For 52 years, my dad has been at my side ��� guiding me, Russia's Putin offers disaster aid to North Korea to help it cope with recent flooding damage 08/04/2024 03:40am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� Russian President Vladimir Putin offered humanitarian assistance to help North Korea cope with damages from recent floods, both countries said, in another sign of expanding relations between the two nations. In a message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday, Put Spanish journalist or Russian spy? The mystery around Pablo Gonz��lez's double life 08/04/2024 03:08am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, reporters from around the world rushed to the Polish-Ukrainian border to cover an exodus of refugees fleeing Russian bombs. Among them was Pablo Gonz��lez, a freelance journalist from Spain who had been based in Poland since 2019, 'We're going to survive and it's going to come back': A year after Maui wildfire, survivors press on 08/04/2024 02:45am • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) ��� They have combed the ashes for mementos, worried about where they would sleep, questioned their faith and tried to find a way to grieve amid the great, unsettling devastation. Residents have faced a year of challenges, practical and emotional, since the deadliest U.S. wildfi A year after Maui wildfire, chronic housing shortage and pricey vacation rentals complicate recovery 08/04/2024 12:45am • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) ��� Josephine Fraser worried her young family's next home would be a tent. Fraser and her partner, their two sons and their dog had moved nine times in as many months, from one hotel room to another, since the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century razed her hometown of Lahaina, o