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Simone Manuel flops in the 50 free, fails to advance out of the heats in Olympic swimming 08/03/2024 12:32pm • NANTERRE, France (AP) ��� In another disappointment for the American swim team, Simone Manuel was eliminated in the preliminaries of the 50-meter freestyle at the Paris Olympics on Saturday. Manuel posted the 18th-fastest time in the hectic sprint covering one length of the pool, not good enough to 2024 Olympics tennis: Matt Ebden goes from lopsided loss in singles to doubles gold with John Peers 08/03/2024 12:13pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Matt Ebden's 2024 Olympics started with his first singles match in more than two years ��� a 6-0, 6-1 loss to Novak Djokovic as a fill-in after other players pulled out of that event. A week later, back in his element as a doubles player, Ebden will leave France as a gold medalist wit American rower Meghan Musnicki ���heartbroken��� after ending the Olympics without a medal in Paris 08/03/2024 11:17am • VAIRES-SUR-MARNE, France (AP) ��� It was a ���soul crushing��� end to the Paris Olympics for 41-year-old Meghan Musnicki, the oldest American woman to ever row at the Summer Games. Musnicki and her U.S. teammates finished fifth in the final of the women���s eight on Saturday in what was likely Musni A tour of Paris: The men's and women's Olympic road races highlight city's spectacular sights 08/03/2024 06:55am • PARIS (AP) ��� The road races in cycling at the Olympics are an opportunity for the host city to shine. The routes that the men and women traverse over several grueling hours and hundreds of kilometers of racing typically pass some of its most iconic historical and cultural landmarks. They provide Bobby Kersee coaches some of biggest stars in track history with 'mad scientist' training methods 08/03/2024 06:54am • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) ��� Bobby Kersee was in a taxi to the airport the night his current prot��g��, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, broke the world record in the 400-meter hurdles at the U.S. Olympic trials. ���I haven't seen one of Sydney's world records live yet,��� Kersee says. Once his athletes s US and Russia tout prisoner swap as a victory. But perceptions of the deal show stark differences 08/03/2024 03:40am • President Vladimir Putin strode along the red carpet between two rows of rifle-toting honor guards and warmly greeted intelligence operatives freed in the biggest prisoner swap with the West since the Cold War. ���The Motherland hasn���t forgotten about you for a minute,��� Putin said, embracing eac Severe drought has returned to the Amazon. And it's happening earlier than expected 08/03/2024 03:24am • BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) ��� Holder of one-fifth of the world's fresh water, the Amazon is beginning the dry season with many of its rivers already at critically low levels, prompting governments to anticipate contingency measures to address issues ranging from disrupted navigation to increasing forest Gleyber Torres pulled by Aaron Boone for lack of hustle in Yankees' 8-5 loss to Blue Jays 08/03/2024 01:30am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres was removed Friday night from an 8-5 loss to Toronto by manager Aaron Boone for not hustling, sending a message to the clubhouse of a team that has struggled since mid-June. Torres did not run hard out of the batter���s box on his 110.7 mph dri Rangers put Max Scherzer put on 15-day IL with right shoulder fatigue 08/03/2024 12:10am • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Max Scherzer was placed on the 15-day injured list Friday because of right shoulder fatigue, though Texas manager Bruce Bochy doesn't expect the three-time Cy Young Award winner and active career strikeout leader to be out any longer than that. ���We don���t think it���ll Heat, erratic winds and possible lightning could complicate the battle against California wildfire 08/02/2024 11:29pm • CHICO, Calif. (AP) ��� Firefighters battling California���s largest wildfire of the year are preparing for treacherous conditions entering the weekend, when expected thunderstorms may unleash fire-starting lightning and erratic winds that could erode progress made over the past week. Dry, hot condit Mariners' Julio Rodr��guez takes next step in recovery from ankle injury, no timeline on return 08/02/2024 08:40pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Mariners center fielder Julio Rodr��guez has started running in his recovery from a high-ankle sprain, but the team is still uncertain about the timeline for when their young star could return to the lineup. General manager Justin Hollander said Friday that Rodr��guez had started �� Election 2024 Latest: DNC chair says Harris secured enough delegate votes to become party nominee 08/02/2024 08:00pm • Vice President Kamala Harris had secured enough votes from Democratic delegates to become the party���s nominee for president, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said Friday. The online voting process doesn���t end until Monday, but Harris' campaign marked the moment when she crossed Transgender woman's use of a gym locker room spurs protests and investigations in Missouri 08/02/2024 07:49pm • COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) ��� A transgender woman���s use of the women���s locker room in a suburban St. Louis gym prompted a protest, a plan for a boycott and calls for an investigation by the state���s politically vulnerable Republican attorney general, who quickly obliged. The woman joined the gym Sunda Idaho prosecutor says he'll seek death penalty against inmate accused of killing while on the lam 08/02/2024 06:56pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� An Idaho prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty against an Idaho inmate charged with killing a man while he was on the lam during a 36-hour escape from prison. Skylar Meade, 32, has already been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to the March escape from Gen Z players, mountain air and return to his roots have given Colorado's Pat Shurmur a new outlook 08/02/2024 06:51pm • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) ��� Maybe it's the mountain air. Maybe it's being around all Gen Zs. Or being away from the NFL meatgrinder. Pat Shurmur said he feels rejuvenated as he prepares for his first season as Colorado's offensive coordinator, where he's in charge of building an offense around star QB