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Sports on TV for Friday, July 26 07/25/2024 01:30pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Friday, July 26 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN���S) 5:30 a.m. FS2 ��� AFL: Port Adelaide at Carlton 2:30 a.m. (Saturday) FS2 ��� AFL: Brisbane at Gold Coast 5:30 a.m. (Saturday) FS1 ��� AFL: Greater Western Sydney at Melbourne AUTO RACI An Olympic-sized fight erupts among anti-doping officials, and it's just getting started 07/25/2024 01:24pm • PARIS (AP) ��� The stream of threats, recriminations and anti-doping innuendo flowed freely again Thursday when tensions over a U.S. law designed to combat drugs in sports escalated on the eve of the Paris Olympics. It's a fight that's been simmering for a decade, sparked by Russia's brazen doping Olympics on TV for Friday, July 26 07/25/2024 01:20pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Friday, July 26 CEREMONY 12 p.m. NBC ��� Preview: Opening Ceremony 1:30 p.m. NBC ��� Opening Ceremony: Live from the 2024 Olympics 7:30 p.m. NBC ��� Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics (Taped) HANDBALL 2 a.m. USA ��� Women���s G Union Pacific profit grows 7% as the railroad continues to get more efficient under CEO Jim Vena 07/25/2024 01:03pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Union Pacific delivered 7% growth in its second-quarter profit even though the number of shipments it hauled remained essentially flat because it was able to continue streamlining its operations. The Omaha, Nebraska, railroad said Thursday that it earned $1.67 billion, or $2.74 I tried Speedo's Olympic swimsuit. It's fast in the pool, but takes forever to put on 07/25/2024 12:08pm • PARIS (AP) ��� It's usually not a good sign when a swimsuit needs instructions for how to put it on. More concerning? When you learn that even Olympians need about 10 minutes to get into Speedo's new Fastskin LZR Intent and LZR Valor suits. Determined to squeeze into the latest skin-tight polyureth Data shows hurricanes and earthquakes grab headlines but inland counties top disaster list 07/25/2024 11:25am • Floyd County keeps flooding and the federal government keeps coming to the rescue. In July 2022, at least 40 people died and 300 homes were damaged in flooding across eastern Kentucky. It was the 13th time in 12 years that Floyd County was declared a federal disaster. These are disasters so costly t Wind farms' benefits to communities can be slow or complex, leading to opposition and misinformation 07/25/2024 11:04am • After NextEra proposed a wind farm in Greeley County, Nebraska two years ago, Robert Bernt, a dairy farm owner in the area, helped to mobilize community members against the idea. His group held town hall meetings and ran ads on the radio, arguing the wind farm would ���fragment��� the community, by Indiana man competent for trial in police officer's killing 07/25/2024 10:30am • ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) ��� An Indiana judge has found a man accused of fatally shooting a young police officer during a traffic stop competent to stand trial in the death penalty case. One doctor concluded that Carl Roy Webb Boards II ���is not just competent, he is very competent,��� the judge noted. Wind power can be a major source of tax revenue, but officials struggle to get communities on board 07/25/2024 10:25am • PIPER CITY, Ill. (AP) ��� In Scott Saffer's science classroom, kids bake cookies in a decked-out kitchen, care for fish, turtles and a snake, and have access to a workshop full of tools. As the gifted enrichment coordinator at Tri-Point School District, Saffer is living his teaching dream, one he kn Forced to emigrate, Venezuelans living abroad hope for change ��� and to eventually return home 07/25/2024 10:17am • The prolonged economic and political instability in Venezuela has forced millions of Venezuelans to leave over the past decade, quashing many of their dreams and leaving many wondering if they'll ever return to what was once South America's most prosperous country. The refugee agency UNHCR estimates Major funders bet big on rural America and ���everyday democracy��� 07/25/2024 09:12am • Someone may need to tell Carlton Turner that he���s working to save democracy. Turner is co-director of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production in the town of Utica, population 600, where his family has lived for eight generations. The organization, better known as Sipp Culture, is helping br Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South 07/25/2024 09:06am • Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand under the watchful eyes of armed guards on horseback. He said breaks were short and infrequent, with nothing to protect workers from the heat. ���I saw guys A year has passed since Niger's dramatic coup. Life has become more dangerous and desperate 07/25/2024 08:59am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� When a group of military officers appeared on state television in Niger one year ago to make a dramatic announcement of a coup, they said they deposed the West African nation's elected government for two key reasons: its security, and economic crises. But those challenges hav Booties. Indoor dog parks. And following the vet's orders. How to keep pets cool this summer 07/25/2024 08:28am • PHOENIX (AP) ��� As much of the world swelters, it's not just people who need help with the dog days of summer. Pet owners have to consider how to both shield and cool down furry family members as intense ��� at times deadly ��� heat waves become more common. ���It���s really important to remember t Myanmar violence, South China Sea tensions are top issues as Southeast Asian diplomats meet in Laos 07/25/2024 08:16am • VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) ��� Southeast Asian foreign ministers and top diplomats from key partners including the United States and China are gathering in the Laotian capital on Thursday for the start of three days of talks expected to focus on the increasingly violent civil war in Myanmar, tensions in t