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Hancock replaces injured Carlini as setter on U.S. women's Olympic volleyball team 07/31/2024 10:31am • PARIS (AP) ��� Micha Hancock has replaced injured setter Lauren Carlini on the U.S. women's volleyball team roster at the 2024 Olympics. Hancock had been the official alternate, a new position for the Paris Games. Information about Carlini's injury was not immediately available on Wednesday. She is How Hungary's Orb��n uses control of the media to escape scrutiny and keep the public in the dark 07/31/2024 10:22am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) ��� In the months leading up to elections for the European Parliament, Hungarians were warned that casting a ballot against Prime Minister Viktor Orb��n would be a vote for all-out war. The right-wing Fidesz party cast the June 9 election as an existential struggle, one that African Human Rights Commission condemns Indigenous groups' eviction to protect nature 07/31/2024 09:17am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� The Congolese government violated the rights of the Indigenous Batwa community by evicting them about 50 years ago from their ancestral lands to expand one of the country���s biggest national parks, according to the African Union's commission on human rights. The decision, ma Two strikes on militant leaders risk inflaming a Middle East on edge 07/31/2024 09:06am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� The targeting of two senior militant leaders in two Middle Eastern capitals within hours of each other ��� with each strike blamed on Israel ��� risks rocking the region at a critical moment. The strikes come as international mediators are working to bring Israel and Hamas Etsy plans to test its first-ever loyalty program as it aims to boost sales 07/31/2024 08:05am • Etsy said Wednesday it will begin testing its first-ever loyalty program in September, a move designed to boost the e-commerce site's sluggish sales and draw in occasional shoppers. The New York-based company said select buyers will receive an invitation for the program, which will offer free shippi Formula 1 team Alpine hires 36-year-old Oliver Oakes as team principal to lead a turnaround 07/31/2024 07:17am • ENSTONE, England (AP) ��� Alpine named 36-year-old Oliver Oakes as its team principal on Wednesday as he aims to lead the team ���back to competitiveness��� in Formula 1. Alpine said Oakes, who is British, would be the second-youngest team principal in F1 history. He brings experience from founding Israel has a long history of targeted killings. Here's a look at some of them 07/31/2024 05:06am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� A pair of strikes on militant leaders in Beirut and Tehran has escalated tensions in a region already on edge and adds to a long list of targeted killings attributed to Israel. Hamas said Israel was behind the assassination of its supreme leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital, a Simone Biles and Team USA earn 'redemption' by powering to Olympic gold in women's gymnastics 07/31/2024 03:01am • PARIS (AP) ��� Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles and Sunisa Lee spent the night before perhaps the biggest gymnastics meet of their lives restless. There was a tension in the air. They'd all been in the Olympic spotlight before, experiences that left them with medals but also the kind of scars ��� be they She became a mother after Islamic State captivity. A decade on, Yazidi community shuns her children 07/31/2024 01:42am • DOHUK, Iraq (AP) ��� The day they came to take her children, the young mother bundled them up against the cold. She asked her nearly 6-year-old son to take care of his younger sister. ���Don���t let anyone hit her,��� she told the boy. ���OK, Mama,��� she remembers him replying. Much else was left u She became a mother after Islamic State captivity. A decade on, Yazidi community shuns her children 07/31/2024 01:41am • DOHUK, Iraq (AP) ��� The day they came to take her children, the young mother bundled them up against the cold. She asked her nearly 6-year-old son to take care of his younger sister. ���Don���t let anyone hit her,��� she told the boy. ���OK, Mama,��� she remembers him replying. Much else was left u Pinch-hitter Solano delivers winning single in the 10th as the Padres stun the Dodgers 6-5 07/31/2024 01:13am • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� Pinch-hitter Donovan Solano singled past diving third baseman Kik�� Hern��ndez with the bases loaded and one out in the 10th inning and the San Diego Padres stunned the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers 6-5 Tuesday night. Solano's hit thrilled a record crowd of 47,559 at Petco Tommy Pham hits grand slam in his return, Cardinals beat the Rangers 8-1 07/30/2024 11:49pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� Tommy Pham hit a pinch-hit grand slam in his first game back with the Cardinals and St. Louis beat the Texas Rangers 8-1 on Tuesday night. Pham���s blast off reliver Cody Bradford capped a five-run fifth. It was his first at-bat since being dealt to the Cardinals from the White So Brewers activate Joe Ross from the injured list as he returns after missing more than 2 months 07/30/2024 11:44pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Brewers right-hander Joe Ross returned to the mound Tuesday after missing more than two months with a lower back injury. Ross (2-5) started Milwaukee's 5-1 loss to the Atlanta Braves and allowed five runs and eight hits over five innings. He struck out four and walked two. ���I fe Taylor HRs in 2nd straight game, Falter is strong in return to rotation as Pirates stop Astros 6-2 07/30/2024 11:39pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� Michael Taylor homered for the second straight game, Bailey Falter returned to the rotation and threw one-run ball into the sixth inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Houston Astros 6-2 on Tuesday night. Taylor hit a 403-foot, two-run homer off Astros starter Hunter Brown (9-7) Jarred Kelenic, Bryce Elder come up big for Braves in 5-1 victory over Brewers 07/30/2024 11:32pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Jarred Kelenic broke out of a month-long slump by hitting a homer and double in the Atlanta Braves��� 5-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night. Austin Riley went 4 for 5 as the Braves won despite leaving 11 men on base. Kelenic doubled during Atlanta���s four-run ou