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Who's in the massive prisoner swap between Russia and the West? 08/01/2024 02:21pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� One spent over 5�� years behind bars in Russia while other, higher-profile detainees were released ahead of him. Another was jailed for only a few months. They include journalists, veteran political activists and those simply opposed to the war in Ukraine. The youngest is 1 Wisconsin judge refuses GOP request to pause absentee voting ruling sought by disabled people 08/01/2024 02:15pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� A judge refused Thursday to put on hold his ruling that allows disabled people in Wisconsin to be emailed absentee ballots at home in November���s presidential election in the closely watched battleground state. Republicans asked the judge to not enforce his ruling while their Review: In 'The Instigators,' a heist goes terrifically wrong 08/01/2024 01:55pm • Though depression lurks around the edges of ���The Instigators,��� Doug Liman���s heist movie is a loosely amiable return to South Boston for Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, who also co-wrote the film. In the film���s opening moments, Rory (Damon), a former Marine, tells his therapist, Dr. Rivera (Hon Lions looking to get running game with Gibbs, Montgomery going in training camp 08/01/2024 01:53pm • ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) ��� The Detroit Lions ranked among the league leaders in rushing last season and expect to be just as effective this upcoming season with Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery running behind one of the NFL���s best offensive lines. In the first week of padded practice at training British prime minister announces policing plan to deal with violence after fatal stabbing of girls 08/01/2024 01:42pm • LONDON (AP) ��� British Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the ���tiny mindless minority��� behind unrest that has plagued several cities after a horrific stabbing at a children���s dance class and vowed to put a stop to it as the 17-year-old suspect was named Thursday in part to counter misinfor Lions��� depth on the defensive line will be tested after knee injury to Cominsky 08/01/2024 01:21pm • ALLEN PARK , Mich. (AP) ��� The Detroit Lions��� depth on the defensive line will be tested as they face the season without defensive end John Cominsky. The 6-foot-5, 285-pound Cominsky was carted off the field with a right knee injury on Tuesday, during the team���s second padded practice. ���Comi Ohio State opens camp determined to change the narrative of the past 3 disappointing seasons 08/01/2024 01:13pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� Ohio State opened camp on Thursday with the usual towering expectations but also a heavy sense of urgency built up over the three consecutive seasons blown up by losses to Michigan. The Buckeyes finished 11-2 in each of those campaigns but failed each time in their primary mi Two couples drop wrongful death suit against Alabama IVF clinic and hospital 08/01/2024 12:53pm • MOBILE, Ala. (AP) ��� Two couples who sued a hospital and in-vitro fertilization clinic over the accidental destruction of their frozen embryos have dropped their lawsuit, months after Alabama's supreme court ruled they could pursue wrongful death claims because embryos could be considered children. No Olympic medal for caddies. Xander Schauffele's looper was moved to tears by a gold ring 08/01/2024 12:33pm • SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) ��� Caddies do not get a medal in the Olympics, only the golfers do. The caddie for Xander Schauffele received some gold that he considers just as valuable from the Tokyo Games. Schauffele and his family gave Austin Kaiser a gold ring. ���They knew it meant a l Inmate sentenced to more than 4 years in prison killing of Boston gangster James ���Whitey��� Bulger 08/01/2024 12:27pm • CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) ��� An inmate was sentenced to more than four years Thursday for his role in the 2018 fatal bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James ���Whitey��� Bulger in a troubled West Virginia federal prison. Massachusetts gangster Paul J. DeCologero was sentenced in federal court a Talks to add cross-country running and cyclocross to Winter Olympics, World Athletics' Coe confirms 08/01/2024 12:14pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Talks to give cross-country running and cyclocross Olympic status in the Winter Games have begun, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said Thursday at the Paris Summer Games. The two events could share a course for racing, Coe suggested, with the added goal of giving African natio Russia releases US journalist and other Americans and dissidents in massive 24-person prisoner swap 08/01/2024 11:46am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan, along with dissidents including Vladimir Kara-Murza, in a multinational deal that set two doze From bugs to trees, a Md. arborist���s tips for spotting invasive species in your backyard 08/01/2024 10:05am • Some bugs are OK, others are not, and the same goes for trees growing in the D.C. region. What should you be on the lookout for? During a walk-through at Patuxent River State Park, Davey Tree Expert Company arborist Lou Meyer points to an ailanthus tree, also known as the tree of heaven, and Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Aug. 2 - Aug. 8 08/01/2024 10:00am • Aug. 6 1958 ��� Glen Davis of Columbus, Ohio, sets a world record in the 400 hurdles with a time of 49.2 in Budapest, Hungary. 1966 ��� Muhammad Ali knocks out Brian London in the third round to retain his world heavyweight title. 1972 ��� South African Gary Player wins his second PGA golf champions Carrie Underwood will return to 'American Idol' as its newest judge 08/01/2024 08:30am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Carrie Underwood will be the next singer to sit behind the judges' table on ���American Idol,��� filling Katy Perry's spot after her departure from the show in May. Underwood, who rose to fame after she won the singing competition show in 2005, will return 20 years later as a j