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Rev It Up: MLB to hold Braves-Reds game at Bristol Motor Speedway next August 08/09/2024 04:49pm • Fasten your seat belts, Major League Baseball is coming to Bristol Motor Speedway. Officials from MLB and the track known as the ���Thunder Valley" that holds more than 146,000 fans for NASCAR races announced Friday that the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds will play in the Speedway Classic there Russia declares an emergency in Kursk, under attack by Ukraine. 14 die in a Russian strike on a mall 08/09/2024 03:42pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Russia declared a ���federal-level��� emergency in the Kursk region following a large-scale incursion from Ukraine and sent reinforcements there on Friday, four days after hundreds of Ukrainian troops poured across the border in what appeared to be Kyiv���s biggest attack on R 3rd person in custody over foiled plot targeting now-canceled Taylor Swift shows in Vienna 08/09/2024 02:21pm • VIENNA (AP) ��� Austrian authorities on Friday announced a third arrest in connection with the foiled conspiracy to attack three now-canceled Taylor Swift concerts, even as disappointed fans charmed Vienna by trading friendship bracelets and singing the pop star���s songs in the streets. The main su Marathon swimmer ends his quest to cross Lake Michigan after two days 08/09/2024 02:08pm • GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) ��� A 60-year-old swimmer who crossed Lake Michigan in 1998 apparently has ended his effort to repeat the feat. An online tracking device shows Jim Dreyer appeared to turn around and return to shore by boat Thursday in western Michigan, two days after he began swimming to Wis Buying tickets for the 2026 Winter Games will be tricky. Sliding could be in Cortina or Lake Placid 08/09/2024 01:52pm • PARIS (AP) ��� It���s kind of like buying tickets for an aging rock band and hoping that the 80-year-old singers and guitarists will be healthy enough to put on the show months down the line. Only this time, the show might be moved from Italy to New York. Tickets are about to go on sale for the next Amtrak train hits tractor trailer in Connecticut, minor injuries reported 08/09/2024 12:59pm • NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (AP) ��� An Amtrak train carrying nearly 100 passengers crashed into the rear section of a tractor trailer in Connecticut on Friday morning, causing minor injuries to a train engineer and damaging warning equipment at the crossing, authorities said. TV news video of the scene in N Ukraine���s surprise cross-border incursion seen as a tactical reply to Russia's grinding gains 08/09/2024 12:55pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� The Ukraine army's surprise charge into Russia this week was a stunning maneuver that caught the Kremlin's forces unawares. The strategic goal of Ukraine's biggest cross-border incursion in almost 900 days of the war remains unclear, but it counters Russia���s unrelenting effo The threat Israel didn't foresee: Hezbollah's growing drone power 08/09/2024 12:08pm • BEIRUT (AP) ��� Lebanon���s militant Hezbollah group launched one of its deepest strikes into Israel in mid-May, using an explosive drone that scored a direct hit on one of Israel���s most significant air force surveillance systems. This and other successful drone attacks have given the Iranian-back Russian native Darja Varfolomeev wins Germany's first Olympic gold in rhythmic gymnastics 08/09/2024 12:04pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Darja Varfolomeev left her native Russia for Germany five years ago in search of Olympic glory. She found it in Paris. The 17-year-old won gold in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around competition on Friday. Varfolomeev posted the highest score in all four events ��� hoop, bal Norway likely won't proceed with spying trial for a Russian citizen who was part of Russia-US swap 08/09/2024 11:44am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Norway is unlikely go ahead with the trial of a Russian citizen who was arrested in the Scandinavian country in 2022 on espionage charges and who was part of a massive, multinational prisoner swap between Russia and the United States last week, a senior prosecutor said F Marta plays for Olympic gold one more time when Brazil meets US in women's soccer final 08/09/2024 10:27am • PARIS (AP) ��� For her final international tournament with Brazil, Marta is back where it all started. The six-time world player of the year was just 18 when she first played in the Olympics 20 years ago. Back then, Brazil reached the gold medal match in Athens but fell to the United States 2-1. The A bus crashes into a pillar of an overpass in Turkey, killing 9 people and injuring 26 others 08/09/2024 09:12am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� A bus traveling between cities in Turkey swerved off a highway and slammed into an overpass pillar Friday, killing nine people on board and injuring at least 26 others, the provincial governor said. The crash occurred near the town of Polatli, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) f Q&A: John Legend on his ambitious children's album, 'My Favorite Dream,' and new single, 'L-O-V-E' 08/09/2024 08:30am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Twenty years on from the release of his debut album, the career making ���Get Lifted,��� John Legend is entering uncharted territory. On Aug. 30, the R&B-pop singer will release his first-ever children's album titled ���My Favorite Dream," via Republic Records: Kids & Fami AP PHOTOS: Hundreds of Taylor Swift fans come together in Vienna after concerts canceled 08/09/2024 08:22am • VIENNA (AP) ��� Police kept a watchful eye as hundreds of Taylor Swift fans gathered and sang her songs in the Austrian capital Thursday, their dreams of watching her perform live abruptly dashed. Three sold-out concerts in Vienna, part of Swift's Eras Tours show, were canceled by organizers after o Democrats and Republicans descend on western Wisconsin with high stakes up and down the ballot 08/09/2024 07:20am • EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) ��� For a brief moment this week, the fierce competition for swing voters in swing-state Wisconsin converged on the tarmac of the tiny Chippewa Valley Regional Airport. Minutes after Vice President Kamala Harris landed with her new running mate Tim Walz for their first campaign