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FBI says Trump was indeed struck by bullet during assassination attempt 07/26/2024 09:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two weeks after Donald Trump’s near assassination, the FBI confirmed Friday that it was indeed a bullet that struck the former president’s ear, moving to clear up conflicting accounts about what caused the former president’s injuries after a gunman opened fire at a P Kodai Senga strains left calf in season debut after missing Mets' first 102 games with hurt shoulder 07/26/2024 09:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Kodai Senga's injury-delayed season debut for the New York Mets was cut short after 5 1/3 innings and 73 pitches when he strained his left calf while pitching against the Atlanta Braves on Friday night. After inducing Austin Riley to pop up leading off the sixth, Senga pointed towa Reliever Ryne Stanek acquired by Mets from Mariners for minor league outfielder Rhylan Thomas 07/26/2024 08:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Right-hander Ryne Stanek was acquired by the Mets from the Seattle Mariners for minor league outfielder Rhylan Thomas on Friday night in a move by New York to bolster its bullpen. Stanek, who turned 33 Friday, was 6-3 with a 4.38 ERA and seven saves in 46 relief appearances for the Scores of wildfires are scorching swaths of the US and Canada. Here's the latest on some of them 07/26/2024 08:04pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scores of wildfires across the United States and Canada have scorched swaths of land in California, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Alberta and beyond, forcing evacuations and road closures, as well as destroying and threatening structures. Air quality advisorie s and alerts have been is 2024 Election Latest: Harris urges people to vote as campaign heats up, Trump meets with Netanyahu 07/26/2024 07:03pm • Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris in her White House bid, giving the vice president the expected but still crucial backing of the nation’s two most popular Democrats. The endorsement comes a day after Harris and President Joe Biden each Paris dazzles with a rainy Olympics opening ceremony on the Seine River 07/26/2024 06:57pm • PARIS (AP) — A hot-air balloon brought an Olympic ring of fire into a rainy sky and singer Celine Dion belted from the Eiffel Tower as Paris kicked off its first Summer Olympics in a century Friday, with a four-hour-long, rule-breaking opening ceremony that unfurled along the Seine River. On-and-o Why Venezuela's presidential election should matter to the rest of the world 07/26/2024 06:04pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The future of Venezuela is on the line. Voters will decide Sunday whether to reelect President Nicolas Maduro, whose 11 years in office have been beset by crisis, or allow the opposition a chance to deliver on a promise to undo the ruling party's policies that caused econ Rays 1B Yandy Díaz reinstated from restricted list after missing seven games for personal reasons 07/26/2024 05:57pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays reinstated first baseman Yandy Díaz from the restricted list on Friday after the defending AL batting champion missed seven games because of personal family reasons. Díaz, who had not played since the All-Star break, was back in his customary leadof Olympics opening ceremony latest: Celine Dion serenades Paris, and now the Games can begin 07/26/2024 05:49pm • PARIS (AP) — The 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony went off with only minor hitches after a rough start to the Summer Games. Following suspected acts of sabotage targeting France’s flagship high-speed rail network, a soggy but celebratory parade down the Seine River brought an official start Autopsy confirms Sonya Massey died from gunshot wound to head, as attorney calls shooting senseless 07/26/2024 05:27pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Autopsy findings released Friday on Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman fatally shot in her Illinois home by a now-fired sheriff's deputy charged in her death, confirm that she died from a gunshot wound to the head. The report was released shortly before civil rights a New Ohio law mandates defibrillators in schools, sports venues after 2023 collapse of Bills’ Hamlin 07/26/2024 05:08pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new Ohio law will require automatic external defibrillators, or AEDs, to be placed in nearly every school or sports and recreation venue in the state, a change prompted by the sudden cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin during a Monday Night Football game in Video shows escape through flames and smoke as wildfire begins burning the outskirts of Idaho town 07/26/2024 04:51pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — William Howard went to the north-central Idaho town of Juliaetta on Thursday to help a friend after a lightning-sparked wildfire began tearing through the friend's property, using barrels of water in an effort to extinguish “hot spots” on the land. But in the 15 minutes it US coastal communities get $575M to guard against floods, other climate disasters 07/26/2024 04:11pm • PERTH AMBOY, N.J. (AP) — The federal government is giving more than a half-billion dollars to coastal communities to help them use nature-based preventative measures to address climate-related flooding and other disasters. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Friday announced it More than 350 structures were destroyed by Jasper wildfire in the Canadian Rockies, officials say 07/26/2024 04:09pm • HINTON, Alberta (AP) — A wildfire in Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies this week destroyed more than 350 structures but all of the critical infrastructure is intact, officials said Friday. The fast-moving fire that prompted 25,000 people to flee the city of Jasper and adjacent park ear Family sues after teen's 2022 death at Georgia detention center 07/26/2024 02:59pm • ROME, Ga. (AP) — The family of a 16-year-old girl who died at a Georgia youth detention center in 2022 are suing over her death, contending she was denied care that would have saved her life. Melanie Hogan Sluder and Ricky Shawn Curtis filed the federal complaint Tuesday in the Northern District o