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Casting aside concerns about the Seine, Sharon van Rouwendaal wins more Olympic gold in open water 08/08/2024 06:38am • PARIS (AP) ��� As Sharon van Rouwendaal approached the finish of an Olympic open water race like no other, she was hardly concerned about the safety of swimming in the Seine River. Heck, she'd already taken a few gulps of water ��� the same water that drew so much scrutiny at the Paris Games. ���I w Three people arrested in rural Nevada over altercation that Black man says involved a racial slur 08/08/2024 02:04am • RENO, Nevada (AP) ��� Three people were arrested and charged Wednesday in connection with a verbal altercation last week in Virginia City, Nevada, during which a Black man said a racial slur was directed at him by a man who also said ���they have a hanging tree��� for people like him. The incident Residents in Alaska capital clean up swamped homes after an ice dam burst and unleashed a flood 08/07/2024 11:12pm • JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) ��� In her yard under the blazing sun Wednesday, Debbie Penrose Fischer leafed through a water-logged cookbook with sentimental value that she hoped to salvage but doubted she could. Nearby, friends helped carry boxes out of her family's garage, which was inundated this week afte India should soon have its first Olympics sponsor, a sign of the country's growing Games influence 08/07/2024 08:49pm • PARIS (AP) ��� The International Olympic Committee expects to add an Indian sponsor soon in a sign of the country's growing influence over the Olympics during a bid to host the 2036 Summer Games. The IOC currently has 15 top-tier partners, which collectively paid almost $740 million last year in ca 7 Best Small-Cap Growth Stocks to Buy 08/07/2024 08:00pm • Having exposure to small-cap stocks is a smart idea. Small-cap companies with market capitalizations of roughly between $250 million and $2 billion have unique advantages that can help diversify a portfolio and offer excellent growth potential. Smaller companies are often in the early stages of the The Latest: Tropical Storm Debby lingering over Georgia and the Carolinas 08/07/2024 07:51pm • Tropical Storm Debby was lingering over coastal Georgia and the Carolinas on Wednesday, still dumping torrential rain in places before moving north. The system has already stirred up tornadoes and submerged streets in waist-high floodwaters. The storm was forecast to move relatively slowly across S Asked about bear carcass prank, RFK Jr. says he once had a freezer full of roadkill meat 08/07/2024 07:41pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� It wasn���t just the dead bear. Days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted to taking a bear carcass from the side of the road and placing it in Central Park as a prank a decade ago, he said that has been picking up roadkill his "whole life��� and once had a ���freezer full of it SUV crash that killed 9 family members followed matriarch's 80th birthday celebration in Florida 08/07/2024 06:31pm • It was a weekend to celebrate a beloved family matriarch, surrounded by generations of her loved ones at her disco-themed 80th birthday party. But it ended in tragedy, after an SUV carrying 10 family members through South Florida careened off a two-lane country road and into a canal in a remote stre Fugitive ex-Catalan leader plans return to Spain despite threat of arrest over failed secession bid 08/07/2024 01:00pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Carles Puigdemont, the former leader of Catalonia who fled Spain after organizing an illegal independence referendum in the wealthy Spanish region seven years ago, announced that he plans to return home on Thursday despite the likelihood of being arrested on his return. Pu Movie Review: 'It Ends With Us' with Blake Lively tackles big issues but slips into soap opera 08/07/2024 12:21pm • Lily Bloom and Ryle Kincaid don't really meet-cute. On a rooftop in Boston, he announces himself by angrily kicking a patio chair. She's up there trying to come to terms with her abusive father's death. They talk about maraschino cherries, gun violence and flirt. There's something off about this pai Juri Vips to return to Rahal Letterman Lanigan at Portland in fourth Honda for third IndyCar start 08/07/2024 12:20pm • ZIONSVILLE, Ind. (AP) ��� Juri Vips will return to Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing for a third IndyCar Series start at the Grand Prix of Portland that will give the team four Honda entries for the Aug. 25 race. The Estonian driver, who turns 24 on Sunday, will join Graham Rahal, Pietro Fittipaldi and Tropical weather brings record rainfall. Experts share how to stay safe in floods. 08/07/2024 12:00pm • The extreme weather seen in places across the United States in recent weeks shows that it doesn't take a catastrophic hurricane to cause significant damage ��� the torrential rain from Tropical Storm Debby in parts of the Southeast is just one example. The slow-moving system lingering over Georgia Aditi Ashok of India takes the road less traveled to get to Olympic golf 08/07/2024 11:20am • SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) ��� Aditi Ashok of India had her golf shirt untucked and took long, languid steps along the fairway Wednesday at Le Golf National, looking very much like someone who had a long day of travel. That she did. Ashok walked off the 18th green at the Portland Classic US setter Jordyn Poulter recovers from serious knee injury to lead Americans into Olympic semifinals 08/07/2024 10:20am • PARIS (AP) ��� Moments before match point of the Olympic quarterfinals, Jordyn Poulter punched herself in the outer thigh. It wasn't a motivational tactic ��� she's plenty good at getting herself fired up. No, the American setter was making sure blood kept flowing around her surgically repaired lef Movie Review: Delicate and powerful, ���Good One��� is one of the year���s indie breakouts 08/07/2024 10:02am • A 17-year-old���s perception of her father is forever altered on a three-day backpacking trip in India Donaldson���s excellent debut ��� Good One," in theaters Friday. Something happens. And then something doesn���t happen. But that���s more of the tear point on the already delicate fabric of a rela