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Italy's Nadia Battocletti breaks Africa's stranglehold on 10,000-meter podium with a silver in Paris 08/10/2024 06:08am • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) ��� For three straight Olympics, nobody born outside of Africa had even come close to finishing on the podium in the women���s 10,000 meters. Italy���s Nadia Battocletti put an end to that streak Friday night at the Paris Games, claiming silver in an event that had come to b Boys' volleyball takes the court at Fairfax County high schools 08/10/2024 05:01am • For years, Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia didn���t offer volleyball teams for boys. That changed last week when several county high schools hosted tryouts. The school district has added boys��� varsity volleyball teams to each of its 28 high school athletic programs for the 2024-25 sch A chess club for kids thrives in a Congo refugee camp. It���s about more than the game 08/10/2024 04:08am • KANYARUCHINYA, Congo (AP) ��� Children sit on the dirt, their clothes ragged and torn, their shoes punctured with holes, but their eyes bright and fixed on what's playing out in front of them. In a corner of a refugee camp in conflict-wracked eastern Congo, about a dozen chess games are going, each Happ, Bellinger go deep as Cubs hang on to beat White Sox 7-6, spoil Sizemore's debut 08/10/2024 12:23am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Ian Happ hit a leadoff homer, Cody Bellinger connected and the Chicago Cubs went deep four times before hanging on to beat the crosstown White Sox 7-6 on Friday night and spoil the debut of manager Grady Sizemore. The White Sox, keyed by Andrew Benintendi's two homers, nearly wiped Trump is putting mass deportations at the heart of his campaign. Some Republicans are worried 08/10/2024 12:20am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� ���Mass Deportation Now!��� declared the signs at the Republican National Convention, giving a full embrace to Donald Trump���s pledge to expel millions of migrants in the largest deportation program in American history. Some Republicans aren���t quite ready for that. Lauren B. P The last known intact US slave ship is too 'broken' and should stay underwater, a report recommends 08/09/2024 07:35pm • MOBILE, Ala. (AP) ��� The last known U.S. slave ship is too ���broken��� and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers and historians announced following a yearslong investigation. The task force heade Harvard rebuffs protests and won't remove Sackler name from two buildings 08/09/2024 07:28pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Harvard University has decided against removing from campus buildings the name of a family whose company makes the powerful painkiller OxyContin, despite protests from parents whose children fatally overdosed. The decision last month by the Harvard Corporation to retain Arthur M. Sa UPS AND DOWNS NEW YORK (AP) _ The following list shows the Nasdaq stocks and warrants that have gone up the most and down the most based on percent of change. Only securities with closing prices or previous closing prices of at least $2 and at least 1000 shares traded are included. Net and percentage changes are the difference between last week's closing price and this week's closing price. UPS Name LastChgPct. 08/09/2024 06:48pm • 1TenXKean40.50+28.19Up229.02MGLGlblrs6.12+3.49Up132.73G1Therape7.09+3.11Up78.14RgncllBio13.15+5.55Up73.05Exagen3.38+1.34Up65.76U-BXTechn11.10+4.26Up62.37Iteris7.00+2.68Up62.08DigitalTurbine3.12+1.14Up57.69UpstartHld36.25+12.49Up52.610Harrow35.94+12.34Up52.311LathamGrw5.30+1.81Up51.912SezzleIncn116.4 Michael Brown's death 10 years ago sparked change in Ferguson 08/09/2024 06:30pm • FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) ��� Michael Brown once told his father the ���world is going to know my name,��� words Michael Brown Sr. still takes to heart. Friday marks 10 years since the 18-year-old was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, turning the St. Louis suburb into the focal point of the U.S. Track has dramatic night in 4x100 relay, Khelif gets her gold 08/09/2024 06:11pm • PARIS (AP) ��� It was a dramatic Friday night for the United States in track and field at the Paris Olympics, and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won gold after facing scrutiny over misconceptions about her sex. Sha���Carri Richardson got her first gold medal while a U.S. men���s relay team fumbled a Olympic boxing Latest: Algerian boxer Imane Khelif wins gold after misinformed scrutiny over her sex 08/09/2024 05:56pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won a gold medal at Paris Olympics after facing scrutiny over misconceptions about her sex. Khelif beat Yang Liu of China in a unanimous decision (5:0) from all five judges, who scored the bout in her favor for all three rounds at Roland Garros. The contro Bodycam video shows Baltimore officers opening fire on fleeing teen moments after seeing his gun 08/09/2024 05:54pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Newly released body-camera footage shows three Baltimore police officers unleashing a barrage of gunfire on a fleeing teenage suspect almost immediately after spotting a gun in his hand. William Gardner, 17, was shot a dozen times, officials said at a news conference Friday aft Friday's Olympic Medalists 08/09/2024 05:39pm • ATHLETICS Men's 400m Hurdles GOLD_Rai Benjamin, United States SILVER_Karsten Warholm, Norway BRONZE_Alison dos Santos, Brazil Men's 4 x 100m Relay GOLD_Canada (Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney, Andre de Grasse) SILVER_South Africa (Bayanda Walaza, Shaun Maswanganyi, Bradley Nkoana, Akani Si Sha���Carri Richardson rallies US women in Olympic 4x100 while men shut out again 08/09/2024 05:29pm • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) ��� Sha���Carri Richardson made her first Olympic gold-medal moment memorable ��� giving the sprinters behind her the side-eye, then stomping her foot to the track on her final step across the finish line. Afterward, she moved aside to watch the U.S. men do what they do best Things to know as CrossFit Games resume in Texas a day after a competitor died during a swim event 08/09/2024 05:25pm • DALLAS (AP) ��� The CrossFit Games resumed Friday, a day after competitor Lazar Dukic died after going underwater and not resurfacing during a swimming event in a Texas lake. In a post on the social platform X, CrossFit Games officials said that they and the entire CrossFit community were ���shatte