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Israel soccer player will serve a 2-game ban at the Paris Olympics after losing urgent court appeal 07/24/2024 01:31pm • PARIS (AP) — Israel defender Roy Revivo lost his appeal of a two-game FIFA ban at the Paris Olympics in a ruling made hours before the team’s opener against Mali. After an urgent hearing earlier Wednesday at the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s Olympic base in Paris, the panel of three judges A prominent Myanmar Christian leader is released from prison for a second time in 4 months 07/24/2024 12:32pm • BANGKOK (AP) — A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was released from prison earlier this week, a member of a Kachin peace organization said Wednesday. The Rev. Hkalam Samson was first arrested in December 2022. In April last year h Jets' Sauce Gardner voted No. 1 cornerback in the AP's top 5 NFL cornerback rankings 07/24/2024 12:31pm • Sauce Gardner has been elite since he first stepped on an NFL field two years ago. The two-time All-Pro again was voted the NFL’s No. 1 cornerback by The Associated Press in a preseason survey. He also landed the top spot in 2023. A panel of eight AP Pro Football Writers ranked the top five player Montgomery County's rent stabilization law now in effect, caps rent hikes 07/24/2024 11:14am • For any renter, being advised of an upcoming large rent increase can be a gut punch. Montgomery County, Maryland's new rent stabilization law is now in effect. Tuesday, the County Council adopted the regulations that allow Bill 15-23, which was approved a year ago, to be implemented. Under the Winter Olympians will compete at these 13 venues when the Games return to Salt Lake City in 2034 07/24/2024 11:08am • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Winter Olympics will make its grand return to Salt Lake City in 2034, the International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday, marking the success of Utah's decadeslong effort to preserve Olympic venues and retain public enthusiasm. Local leaders have had their sights set Turkey plans to regulate a large stray dog population, raising some fears about mass killings 07/24/2024 11:08am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish bill aimed at regulating the country's millions of stray dogs moved closer to becoming law Wednesday as animal rights advocates feared many of them would be killed or end up in neglected, overcrowded shelters. “Although some people persistently ignore it, Turkey h Man gets life without parole in 1988 killing and sexual assault of woman in Boston 07/24/2024 10:24am • BOSTON (AP) — A man was sentenced to life in prison without parole in the killing of a woman whose body was found in the basement of a Boston building more than three decades ago. DNA evidence linked Carl Vega, 61, to the 1988 killing of 21-year-old Judy Chamberlain, prosecutors said. A maintenan Former University of Florida president will return on an interim basis after Ben Sasse's resignation 07/24/2024 10:03am • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former University of Florida president will take back the role on an interim basis following ex-U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse's unexpected announcement last week that he was stepping down from the job after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy. The school's Board of Trustees voted What you need to know about Netanyahu's DC visit 07/24/2024 09:30am • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit D.C. on Wednesday to address Congress and discuss a hostage and cease-fire deal with U.S. officials as the Israel-Hamas war continues into its ninth month. Netanyahu's three-day visit will lead to some changes to everyday traffic routines i Britain's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces his first House of Commons grilling from lawmakers 07/24/2024 07:35am • LONDON (AP) — Newly elected British leader Keir Starmer faced a House of Commons milestone on Wednesday, fielding lawmakers’ queries at the boisterous weekly Prime Minister’s Questions session. It was the first such session since Starmer’s Labour Party won a landslide election victory on Jul She dreamed of becoming an Olympian. Now, Ashburn-native Emily Fox is set to help lead the US women's soccer team 07/24/2024 06:12am • Before heading to Olympic training camp with the U.S. women's national soccer team, Emily Fox returned home to Ashburn, Virginia, for an extended stay for the first time since the pandemic. As the 26-year-old defender began to clean up her room, she went through some of her old childhood mementos. Women's boxing fights its way to parity with the men's game, just 12 years after its Olympic debut 07/24/2024 06:00am • PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Charley Davison's husband and their three young children were already in bed back home on the east coast of England before she pulled on her headgear and stepped into the World Boxing ring in southern Colorado earlier this year. The 30-year-old Davison was able to pursue her O Northwestern coach David Braun returns to Indianapolis with plenty of support and no interim tag 07/24/2024 06:00am • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — When Northwestern coach David Braun walked to the podium and told everyone he was excited to be back at the Big Ten preseason kickoff Tuesday, he meant it. Every word. Few attendees at last year's Big Ten media days figured Braun, then saddled with an interim tag, could turn a Farmers in Africa say their soil is dying and chemical fertilizers are in part to blame 07/24/2024 05:46am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could produce a bountiful harvest of 200 bags of maize. That has dwindled to 30. He says his once fertile soil has become a nearly lifeless field that no longer earns Biles, Richardson, Osaka comebacks 'bigger than them.' They highlight issues facing Black women 07/24/2024 05:44am • PARIS (AP) — When Naomi Osaka lifts her racket on the red clay courts at Roland Garros during the Paris Olympics later this month, it'll represent more than a high-stakes competition for the tennis star. For Osaka, a four-time grand slam champion, it's an important step in her journey after return