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RFK Jr. testifies about residence in lawsuit seeking to keep him off New York presidential ballot 08/06/2024 06:29pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endured a sometimes heated volley of questions Tuesday from a lawyer challenging his claim that he lives in New York and seeking to keep the independent candidate off the state's presidential ballot. Kennedy testified that his address is in the well-to-do Israel-Hamas war latest: Hamas chooses Oct. 7 mastermind as their new leader as wider war feared 08/06/2024 06:16pm • The Palestinian militant group Hamas said Tuesday it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader. The choice of the hardliner was a defiant move by Hamas, whose political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran last week in a pr Swiss beat Americans Hughes, Cheng in Olympic beach volleyball; German, Swedish men advance to semis 08/06/2024 06:14pm • PARIS (AP) ��� No more American women left in the beach volleyball field at the Paris Games. No more hope of the U.S. women bringing a gold medal back to the sport's birthplace for the fifth time in six Olympics. Switzerland ousted Americans Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes on Tuesday night, a day after American Cole Hocker pulls Olympic shocker in men's 1,500, leaving Kerr and Ingebrigtsen behind 08/06/2024 06:01pm • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) ��� The race was billed as a bar brawl between the two baddest 1,500-meter runners in the world. Nobody figured the little-known American guy would sneak up on both of them, steal the show and take the Olympic gold medal with him. Cole Hocker threw a jolt into track Tuesday Georgia property owners battle railroad company in ongoing eminent domain case 08/06/2024 05:56pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A hearing on Tuesday raised questions about a railroad company���s use of eminent domain in one of Georgia���s poorest areas. After three days of hearings in November, an officer for the Georgia Public Service Commission granted Sandersville Railroad Co.'s request to legally condemn Fast-moving Southern California wildfire torches hillside homes, forcing evacuations 08/06/2024 05:25pm • SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) ��� A fast-moving wildfire that swept into a Southern California hillside community this week destroyed five homes and damaged three others, authorities said Tuesday. The flames erupted Monday afternoon and chased residents from the neighborhood in San Bernardino, about 6 Marathon swimmer who crossed Lake Michigan in 1998 is trying it again 08/06/2024 05:02pm • GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) ��� The Shark is back in the water, trying to repeat his 1998 feat of swimming across Lake Michigan. Jim Dreyer entered the lake at Grand Haven, Michigan, on Tuesday and began swimming to Wisconsin. The route to Milwaukee is expected to cover roughly 83 miles (134 kilometers) Fossils suggest even smaller ���hobbits��� roamed an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago 08/06/2024 04:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall ��� earning them the nickname ���hobbits.��� Now a new study suggests ancestors of the hobbits were even slightly shorter. ���We did Coastal Carolina escapes Tropical Storm Debby, moves training camp to NC State 08/06/2024 03:14pm • CONWAY, S.C. (AP) ��� Tropical Storm Debby has chased Coastal Carolina's football team out of the state. The Chanticleers of the Sun Belt Conference have switched locations for training camp to North Carolina State about three hours away due to the storm. Debby is forecast to bring as much as 30 in Thanh Hoa soccer players go on strike in Vietnam over unpaid salaries and bonuses 08/06/2024 01:39pm • Players at Thanh Hoa soccer club in Vietnam have gone on strike over unpaid salaries and bonuses, with the team also withdrawing from the inaugural season of the AFC Champions League Two. Located 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of the capital Hanoi, Thanh Hoa had qualified for the continental compet NASCAR Cup Series, Truck Series fire back up after 2 weeks off, F1, Larson wins in Sprint Cars 08/06/2024 11:25am • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Cook Out 400. Site: Richmond, Virginia. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 4:30 p.m.; Saturday, qualifying, 5:35 p.m.; Sunday race, 6 p.m. (USA Network). Track: Richmond Raceway. Race distance: 400 laps, 300 miles. Last year: Chris Buescher pulled away on a restart First Afghan woman to compete internationally after Taliban takeover seeks Olympic gold in Paris 08/06/2024 11:13am • PARIS (AP) ��� Zakia Khudadadi has spent most of her life breaking through glass ceilings. Or rather, smashing through them with a sidekick. The taekwondo Paralympian made history in 2021 in Tokyo, becoming the first Afghan woman to compete in an international sporting event since the Taliban took Human remains found inside a crocodile in Australia believed to be that of a 40-year-old tourist 08/06/2024 10:33am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Police said Tuesday human remains were found inside a large crocodile suspected of killing a tourist in Australia���s second fatal attack in about a month. The latest victim was 40-year-old doctor Dave Hogbin who fell from a steep bank Saturday into the Annan River sout Energy Department awards $2.2B to strengthen the electrical grid and add clean power 08/06/2024 08:41am • The Department of Energy on Tuesday announced $2.2 billion in funding for eight projects across 18 states to strengthen the electrical grid against increasing extreme weather, advance the transition to cleaner electricity and meet a growing demand for power. The money will help build more than 600 m The Olympics are over and Shane Lowry wants to make a big push for his best chance in the FedEx Cup 08/06/2024 08:37am • SAINT QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) ��� Shane Lowry was among 21 players at the Paris Olympics who headed across the Atlantic Ocean for the PGA Tour���s final tournament of the regular season that determines the top 70 who advance to the FedEx Cup postseason. What makes the Irishman stand out is