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16 people killed and dozens critically wounded in bombing in Nigeria's Borno state, officials say 08/01/2024 11:53am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A bomb exploded in a roadside market in Nigeria's Borno state killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens of others, police said. The government imposed a 24-hour curfew after the bombing attack, the second in recent weeks. The attack happened at about 8 p.m. local time W From South Jersey to South Philly, Phillips grows up diehard Phillies fan, grows into solid pitcher 08/01/2024 11:01am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tyler Phillips missed the 2008 World Series parade, stuck in grade school while Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, Chase Utley and the rest of the Phillies enjoyed that celebratory ride down Broad Street. No matter how much an 11-year-old Phillips tried to convince mom, she said no, s Olympics on her mind, Ukraine in her heart, world-record high jumper goes for a gold medal in Paris 08/01/2024 10:41am • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — The best high jumper in Ukraine, and maybe the world, hasn’t spent much time at home the last few years. Home for Yaroslava Mahuchikh is Dnipro, a city of nearly 1 million located only about 100 kilometers from the front lines of the war with Russia that shows no signs Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Aug. 2 - Aug. 8 08/01/2024 10:05am • Aug. 2 1864 — The first Travers Stakes at Saratoga is won by Kentucky, a horse that scores 20 consecutive victories. 1912 — John McDermott wins the U.S. Open golf championship for the second straight year with a 294 total. 1952 — Five American boxers win gold medals at the Olympics, marking th Mohammed Deif, Hamas military leader who eluded Israel for decades, is claimed to be dead 08/01/2024 06:36am • RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Mohammed Deif, Hamas' longtime shadowy military leader and one of the alleged masterminds of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza, is said to be dead following an Israeli airstrike last month. The Israeli military said it killed Deif in a massive str Extended drought parches Sicily, and farmers worry about being forced to sell off animals 08/01/2024 01:20am • CAMMARATA, Italy (AP) — On a scorching July afternoon, a municipal water truck rolls up in a cloud of dust on Liborio Mangiapane's farm in southern Sicily. Some of the precious liquid gets transferred to a smaller cistern on a tractor that Mangiapane's son will use to fill troughs for 250 cattle a Olympic triathletes swim in Seine River after days of concerns about water quality 07/31/2024 11:55pm • PARIS (AP) — Olympic triathletes dove into the Seine River on Wednesday after organizers declared the water in Paris safe for swimming following days of concerns about elevated bacteria levels caused by heavy rains last week. The women jumped into the river near the majestic Pont Alexandre III aro Tropical Storm Carlotta has formed in the eastern Pacific, forecasters say 07/31/2024 11:29pm • MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Carlotta has formed in the eastern Pacific, but is moving away from Mexico, forecasters said Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says in an advisory that a tropical depression was upgraded to the tropical storm, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (80 k West Virginia school ordered to remain open after effort to close it due to toxic groundwater fears 07/31/2024 10:02pm • PADEN CITY, W.Va. (AP) — A small West Virginia school will remain open after a judge sided with residents who fought a county superintendent's decision to relocate classes due to contaminated groundwater under the school being on a national cleanup priority list. Wetzel County Circuit Judge Richa Captain in 2019 scuba boat fire ordered to pay about $32K to families of 3 of 34 people killed 07/31/2024 09:30pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A scuba dive boat captain was ordered Wednesday to pay about $32,000 in restitution to the families of three of the 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019. Jerry Boylan’s criminal negligence as captain of the Conception led to the deadliest maritime disaster in r Not all Olympic gold medals are worth the same price 07/31/2024 09:00pm • You can only get them every four years, but an Olympic medal can be worth millions to those who win one. But as rare as they are, some medals have the potential to not be worth much at all. The reality is there are tons of sports and not every one will get a lot of attention, which means the valu Attorney says parents of ex-student accused in Texas school shooting bear responsibility for attack 07/31/2024 08:56pm • GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — The parents of a former Texas high school student accused of killing 10 people during a 2018 shooting on his campus bear responsibility for what happened because they failed to help their son amid a mental health crisis or to limit his access to the family’s guns, an atto 1 person killed in Colorado wildfires as blazes torch large areas of the U.S. West 07/31/2024 08:23pm • LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — A person was killed in one of several wildfires threatening heavily populated areas of the Colorado foothills, authorities said Wednesday, as almost 100 large blazes burned across the western U.S. The death came in a fire near the town of Lyons that blackened more than two s Fed Chair Powell says September interest rate cut could be 'on the table' as inflation cools 07/31/2024 05:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday set the stage for the central bank's first rate cut in four years, citing greater progress toward lower inflation as well as a cooler job market that no longer threatens to overheat the economy. Still, the Fed kept its key interes Ukraine receives first F-16 fighter jets to bolster defenses against Russia, officials tell AP 07/31/2024 04:24pm • Ukraine has received the first F-16 fighter jets that it has sought for months to fight back against an onslaught of Russian missile strikes, a U.S. official confirmed to The Associated Press. A Ukrainian lawmaker also confirmed Ukraine had received a small number of F-16 fighter jets. The two offic