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Emotional stage win for Castrillo in Spanish Vuelta on the day his team's founder dies 08/29/2024 05:21pm • MANZANEDA, Spain (AP) ��� Pablo Castrillo picked up an emotional stage win in the Spanish Vuelta on Thursday, the day his team's founder died. Castrillo gave Kern Pharma the victory in the 12th stage a few hours after the team said its founder and former president, Manolo Azcona, died at the age of Seine water quality issues resurface for para triathletes at Paralympic Games 08/29/2024 04:46pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Concerns over water quality in the Seine River resurfaced at the Paralympic Games on Thursday when organizers changed the schedule for para triathlon races. All 11 medal events are to be held on one day, Sept. 1, instead of two as originally planned, Paris 2024 organizers said in a st Fall is bringing fantasy (and romantasy), literary fiction, politics and Taylor-ed book offerings 08/29/2024 04:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Brandon Sanderson, whose epic ���Wind and Truth��� is a highlight of the upcoming publishing season, sees nothing wrong with the idea of ���escapism.��� ���It's just the ability to go to another world and relate to other people's problems, problems that aren't our problems. It's a Jury deliberates in first criminal trial linked to New Hampshire youth center abuse 08/29/2024 04:39pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� Jurors in the first criminal trial linked to New Hampshire���s sprawling child abuse scandal began deliberating Thursday in the case of a former youth detention center worker charged with repeatedly raping a teenage girl two decades ago. Victor Malavet, 62, is one of nine men Claw machine games are Rio de Janeiro's new public enemy 08/29/2024 04:31pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Rio de Janeiro ��� already notorious for street muggings, corrupt politicians, ruthless militias and Kalashnikov-toting drug traffickers ��� has a new public enemy: plushies. Or, more specifically, the joystick-controlled claw machines that dispense them. On Wednesday, Rio po RFK Jr. can't get off ballot in North Carolina, can't get back on it in New York 08/29/2024 04:15pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lost twice Thursday in his battles to stay on the presidential ballot in some states and get off of it in others. North Carolina���s elections board refused to take him off that state���s ballot, with a majority saying it was too late in the process for h Justice Department watchdog finds failures in FBI's handling of child sex abuse cases 08/29/2024 04:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The FBI has failed to report some child sexual abuse allegations to local law enforcement or social service agencies even after changes prompted by its handling of the case against former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, according to a Justice Department watchdog report r No. 10 Florida State seeks to learn from 'sickening' loss, faces Boston College in home opener 08/29/2024 04:06pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Florida State coach Mike Norvell was sickened by his team's season-opening 24-21 loss to Georgia Tech in Ireland. He made sure to thank fans who journeyed across the Atlantic to support the team, but made clear it's time to get back to ���work��� ��� his mantra throughout Sports on TV for Friday, Aug. 30 08/29/2024 04:05pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Friday, Aug. 30 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (WOMEN'S) 3 a.m. (Saturday) FS2 ��� AFL: St. Kilda at Gold Coast 5 a.m. (Saturday) FS2 ��� AFL: Melbourne at Geelong AUTO RACING 7:25 a.m. ESPN2 ��� Formula 1: Practice, Autodromo Nazionale Monz Presto's Picks: Terps, Cavs and Hokies kick off season in a different world for the sport 08/29/2024 03:55pm • Welcome to a brand-new world of college football. It always amazes me how a sport that prides itself on tradition is so subject to radical changes, from conference makeup to how it determines a champion. If you've been enjoying the offseason with winery trips and reading/crosswords by the pool, l Fall is bringing fantasy (and romantasy), literary fiction, politics and Taylor-ed book offerings 08/29/2024 03:53pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Brandon Sanderson, whose epic ���Wind and Truth��� is a highlight of the upcoming publishing season, sees nothing wrong with the idea of ���escapism.��� ���It���s just the ability to go to another world and relate to other people���s problems, problems that aren���t our problems. I College athlete advocacy group opposes NCAA lawsuit settlement, says it limits potential earnings 08/29/2024 03:41pm • A prominent advocacy group for college athletes announced Thursday it opposes the $2.8 billion settlement agreement of antitrust litigation facing the NCAA and major college conferences, saying a plan for schools to share athletics revenue will actually limit the earning potential of the athletes. T Botched college financial aid form snarls students' enrollment plans 08/29/2024 03:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� After a long summer of technical glitches, most of America's prospective college students finally applied for federal financial aid ��� an annual process upended by a redesign-gone-bad. The number of high school seniors who have completed their Free Application for Federal Stude 12-team College Football Playoff puts even more emphasis on schedule strength, for better or worse 08/29/2024 03:32pm • Y'all ain't played nobody! It might as well be college football's slogan. Debates about strength of schedule are part of the fabric of the sport, like marching bands, cheerleaders and tailgating. With the size of the College Football Playoff tripling in size from four teams to 12 this season ��� in Angelina Jolie dazzles Venice Film Festival with ���Maria,��� a biopic about opera legend Maria Callas 08/29/2024 03:31pm • VENICE, Italy (AP) ��� For Angelina Jolie, portraying the famed opera singer Maria Callas meant more to her than she can put into words. ���I felt such a privilege to feel like I got to know this woman and got to be inside her skin a moment. I really care for her deeply,��� Jolie told The Associated