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Kitesurfing, the fastest sport at the Paris Olympics, hits the water in Marseille 08/04/2024 03:47pm • MARSEILLE, France (AP) ��� The sky in front of the Marseille marina filled with kites Sunday afternoon. Kitesurfing ��� the fastest sport at the Paris Games ��� had arrived at the Olympics. ���It���s a fresh gust of emotions, of feelings, of thoughts,��� said Max Maeder, 17, of Singapore. The athle Everything is tougher on a bike in the Olympics: eating, drinking and, yes, bathroom breaks 08/04/2024 03:36pm • PARIS (AP) ��� German cyclist Nils Politt was feeling good early in the Olympic road race on Saturday, getting into a breakaway and giving the veteran of seven Tours de France the feeling that something magical could happen on the streets of Paris. Suddenly, he began to feel something much different When L��on Marchand swims, nearly all of France watches - even fans at other Olympic events 08/04/2024 02:49pm • PARIS (AP) ��� The popularity of French swimmer L��on Marchand has caused some problems at the Olympics. It's a distraction, at least for some. At the tennis venue on Wednesday night, Austin Krajicek was serving for the match in doubles against Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz when fans at Roland Gar US rider Kristen Faulkner sprints clear to win women's road race at Paris Olympics 08/04/2024 12:40pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Kristen Faulkner timed her attack to perfection to win the women's road race at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, becoming the first American rider in 40 years to win a medal in the event. The 158-kilometer (98-mile) route started and finished in Paris, with Faulkner crossing the line Man gets life sentence for killing his 3 young sons at their Ohio home 08/04/2024 11:38am • BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) ��� A man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the shooting deaths of his three young sons at their Ohio home last year. A Clermont County judge sentenced Chad Doerman, 33, on Friday to three consecutive life terms after he pleaded guilty to ag One church, two astronauts. How a Texas congregation is supporting its members on the space station 08/04/2024 08:33am • About 10 miles from Johnson Space Center, a Houston-area church takes a moment during Wednesday Bible studies and Sunday evening services to pray for two members who cannot be there. In fact, there���s no way on Earth for NASA astronauts Barry ���Butch��� Wilmore and Tracy Dyson to show up at Provi Tropical Storm Debby moving through Gulf toward Florida with hurricane warnings 08/04/2024 08:31am • MIAMI (AP) ��� Tropical Storm Debby was strengthening rapidly Sunday and was predicted to become a hurricane as it moves through the Gulf of Mexico on a collision course with the Florida coast. The National Hurricane Center said in an update posted at 8 a.m. Sunday that Debby was located about 155 m How a DC woman completed the world's toughest footrace for a 2nd time 08/04/2024 08:30am • Kelaine Conochan of D.C. said growing up, elementary school field day was like her Super Bowl. "I've always been one of the fast kids. I always tried so hard during the National Physical Fitness Test," Conochan said. "During the mile, I wanted to be first." That love followed her into adulthoo Drugstores tinker with new looks as their usual way of doing business faces challenges 08/04/2024 08:27am • America���s drugstores are testing smaller locations and more ways to offer care as price-sensitive shoppers look elsewhere. Customers may see Walgreens stores that are one-fourth the size of a regular location or CVS drugstores with entire primary clinics stuffed inside. If these experiments succee South Sudan's Olympics didn't have a storybook ending, but it inspired it to add layers to its story 08/04/2024 07:50am • VILLENEUVE-D���ASCQ, France (AP) ��� South Sudan���s players trudged through the handshake line after a 96-85 loss to Serbia that eliminated their team from the men���s Olympic basketball tournament. They took in long embraces from opposing players from whom they'd earned total respect. The team li Cubs meet the Cardinals with 2-1 series lead 08/04/2024 04:00am • St. Louis Cardinals (57-54, second in the NL Central) vs. Chicago Cubs (54-59, fifth in the NL Central) Chicago; Sunday, 7:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Miles Mikolas (8-8, 4.99 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 83 strikeouts); Cubs: Justin Steele (2-5, 3.38 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 98 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBO 'We're going to survive and it's going to come back': A year after Maui wildfire, survivors press on 08/04/2024 02:45am • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) ��� They have combed the ashes for mementos, worried about where they would sleep, questioned their faith and tried to find a way to grieve amid the great, unsettling devastation. Residents have faced a year of challenges, practical and emotional, since the deadliest U.S. wildfi Same storm, different names: How Invest 97L could graduate to Hurricane Debby 08/04/2024 02:18am • It's an area of low atmospheric pressure, thunderstorms and wind sloshing out of the Caribbean Sea across Cuba, into the Gulf of Mexico and toward Florida. But by the time it dissipates, weather forecasters may have called it by five different names. First it was Invest 97L, then it was Potential Tr Zach Neto's 3-run homer rallies Angels to 5-4 victory over Mets despite J.D. Martinez's grand slam 08/04/2024 01:39am • ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) ��� Zach Neto drove in a career-high four runs, including three with a go-ahead home run in the seventh inning, and the Los Angeles Angels rallied for a 5-4 victory over the New York Mets on Saturday night despite J.D. Martinez's second grand slam in eight games. Neto connected A year after Maui wildfire, chronic housing shortage and pricey vacation rentals complicate recovery 08/04/2024 12:45am • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) ��� Josephine Fraser worried her young family's next home would be a tent. Fraser and her partner, their two sons and their dog had moved nine times in as many months, from one hotel room to another, since the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century razed her hometown of Lahaina, o