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Nigeria women's basketball team denied entry to opening ceremony boat by federation, AP source says 07/27/2024 05:43am • PARIS (AP) — The Nigeria women's basketball team wasn't allowed to board the delegation's boat for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, said a person familiar with the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on Friday condition of anonymity because the Nigeria delegation has not The Philippines says a cargo of oil has started to leak from a tanker that sank in Manila Bay 07/27/2024 05:38am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The cargo of industrial fuel oil on a tanker that sank in stormy weather in Manila Bay has started to leak in small amounts, the Philippine coast guard said Saturday. Authorities were scrambling to start a delicate undersea operation to siphon off the highly toxic shipm Salvador Perez's 3-run homer highlights 6-run 5th inning, leads Royals to 6-0 win over Cubs 07/26/2024 11:27pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Salvador Perez hit a three-run homer that highlighted a six-run fifth inning and Kansas City beat the Chicago Cubs 6-0 Friday night in front of the Royals' second-largest crowd of the season. Friday night's attendance of 36,351 at Kauffman Stadium was topped only by the 38, California's largest wildfire explodes in size as fires rage across US West 07/26/2024 11:21pm • California's largest active fire exploded in size on Friday evening, growing rapidly amid bone-dry fuel and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters scrambled to meet the danger. The Park Fire's intensity and rapid spread led fire officials to make unwelcome comparisons to the monstrous Camp Singing, ceremonies and straw hats: Olympics opening ceremony in Tahiti centers Polynesian culture 07/26/2024 08:29pm • PAPARA, Tahiti (AP) — Tahitian dancers in palm-leaf skirts mingled with Olympic surfers, locals and tourists as the opening ceremony for the Summer Games commenced in French Polynesia on Friday morning, some 10,000 miles away from the main ceremony in Paris. “The people of Tahiti, we are all enc 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 Olympics opening ceremony saw no major reported issues, French official says 07/26/2024 07:05pm • PARIS (AP) — France's interior minister praised security forces after no major issues were reported Friday during the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Authorities had deployed a massive security operation in Paris to keep the event safe. The capital's streets were blocked off, with squadrons of 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 Rain, rain and more rain couldn't drown out the cheers at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony 07/26/2024 06:28pm • PARIS (AP) — Drizzles, sprinkles and then full-on, nonstop rain drenched the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. Ponchos, tarps and Eiffel Tower-patterned umbrellas weren't enough to protect the soggy but cheering crowds watching the show on the banks of the choppy Seine River. It's been an un Wreckage of schooner that sank in 1893 found in Lake Michigan 07/26/2024 06:18pm • ALGOMA, Wis. (AP) — Marine archaeologists have discovered the wreckage of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in the late 1800s. The Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association announced this month that its searchers found the Margaret A. Muir in 50 feet (15.2 meters) of water off Algoma, Wisc UN body that regulates ocean floor prepares for election amid debate over deep-sea mining 07/26/2024 05:59pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.N. body that regulates deep international waters is preparing to elect its next leader, a crucial position as it faces pressure to either ban, approve or place a moratorium on seabed mining. The upcoming election comes as the Jamaica-based International Seabed Auth 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 Site of 3 killings during pivotal, bloody 1967 Detroit riot receives historic marker 07/26/2024 05:27pm • DETROIT (AP) — The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three young Black men were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city's bloody 1967 race riot is receiving a historic marker. A dedication ceremony was held Friday in a park several miles north of downtown where the Alg Israel-Hamas war latest: Netanyahu visits Trump, says Israel is eager to reach a cease-fire deal 07/26/2024 04:07pm • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Donald Trump on Friday at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate for their first face-to-face meeting in nearly four years as the two sought to mend their political alliance. Netanyahu's visit to Florida came a day after the Israeli leader met in