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With Argentina's president skipping Mercosur, the future of the trade alliance looks doubtful 07/07/2024 08:58pm • ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — The most notable thing about the Mercosur trade bloc's meetings on Sunday in Paraguay was an absence — that of Argentine President Javier Milei. With the Argentine populist skipping the summit to star at a right-wing rally in Brazil, South America's biggest trade bloc O'Ward seizes lead on Palou's pit stop woes, wins Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio in debut of hybrid engine 07/07/2024 08:45pm • LEXINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Pato O’Ward bounced back on multiple levels with an IndyCar victory Sunday he was confident of achieving with a new hybrid engine he found to his liking. The combination helped him reduce a big deficit to Alex Palou and ultimately pounce on the slimmest window of opportuni 3 men killed in weekend shooting at homeless encampment near Los Angeles, police say 07/07/2024 07:22pm • DOWNEY, Calif. (AP) — Three men were killed in a weekend shooting near a homeless encampment in Southern California, authorities said. Officers responded shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday to reports of gunfire at a dry riverbed near Interstate 105 in Downey, police said in a statement. They found t Contreras homers again with three RBIs to help Cardinals beat Nationals 8-3 07/07/2024 06:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Willson Contreras hit his second homer of the series and the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Washington Nationals 8-3 on Sunday. Contreras hit a line drive 395-foot homer off Nationals reliever Derek Law in the seventh. He also singled and scored twice with three RBIs. The two-r Shelter-in-place order briefly issued at North Dakota derailment site, officials say 07/07/2024 06:37pm • Officials at the remote site of a derailed train carrying hazardous materials that sparked a fire in North Dakota briefly issued a shelter-in-place notice Sunday for area residents during cleanup. The notice was issued as a precaution early Sunday after air monitors detected low levels of anhydrous IndyCar Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Results 07/07/2024 05:44pm • Sunday At Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Lexington, Ohio Lap length: 2.258 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (2) Pato O'Ward, Dallara-Chevrolet, 80 laps, Running. 2. (1) Alex Palou, Dallara-Honda, 80, Running. 3. (6) Scott McLaughlin, Dallara-Chevrolet, 80, Running. 4. (4) Colton Herta, Dallara-H Tour de France Results 07/07/2024 04:28pm • Sunday, July 7 In France 9th Stage A 124-mile race from Troyes to Troyes . 1. Anthony Turgis, France, Totalenergies/Fra, 4:19:43s. 2. Tom Pidcock, Great Britian, Ineos Grenadiers/GBR, same time. 3. Derek Gee, Canada, Israel-Premier Tech/Isr, same time. 4. Alex Aranburu, Spain, Movistar Team/ Hamilton finally stops counting the days since his last F1 win after brilliant British GP victory 07/07/2024 02:12pm • Lewis Hamilton had been counting the days since his last Formula 1 win and the number was creeping toward 1,000. After a brilliant victory in front of his home fans at the British Grand Prix on Sunday — his 104th win in F1 — a relieved Hamilton can finally stop counting. “That’s the longest Frenchman Anthony Turgis wins tough Tour de France stage on gravel roads, Pogacar keeps the lead 07/07/2024 12:56pm • TROYES, France (AP) — Frenchman Anthony Turgis emerged victorious from a long breakaway through the dust of gravel roads to claim the ninth stage of the Tour de France after a hectic day of racing, marked by relentless attacks on Sunday. Behind the breakaway, race leader Tadej Pogacar tried to set Rafah is a dusty, rubble-strewn ghost town 2 months after Israel invaded to root out Hamas 07/07/2024 10:15am • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Two months ago, before Israeli troops invaded Rafah, the city sheltered most of Gaza's more than 2 million people. Today it is a dust-covered ghost town. Abandoned, bullet-ridden apartment buildings have blasted out walls and shattered windows. Bedrooms and kitchens are vi Britain's new top diplomat in Poland discusses closer ties with Europe and support for Ukraine 07/07/2024 10:10am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Britain’s new Foreign Secretary David Lammy held talks with his Polish counterpart on Sunday as part of his first international trip seeking to tighten U.K. relations with the European Union and stress support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. Lammy said he was visiti Alex Palou embraces IndyCar hybrid engine, edges Pato O'Ward to win second straight Mid-Ohio pole 07/07/2024 09:48am • LEXINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Alex Palou demonstrated his quick command of IndyCar’s new hybrid engine on Saturday to nudge Pato O’Ward by 0.0024 seconds for his second consecutive pole at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Palou now seeks his third victory this season on Sunday in the 200-mile race and sec Ben Rice becomes 1st Yankees rookie to hit 3 homers in game in 14-4 rout of Red Sox 07/07/2024 08:25am • NEW YORK (AP) — Ben Rice became the first Yankees rookie to homer three times in a game and drove in seven runs as New York snapped a four-game slide with a 14-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday. Alex Verdugo hit a two-run homer and drew the ire of the Red Sox with a 32-second trot arou Kenya's dramatic flooding sweeps away a central part of the economy: Its farms 07/07/2024 02:21am • MACHAKOS, Kenya (AP) — With dismay, Martha Waema and her husband surveyed their farm that was submerged by weeks of relentless rainfall across Kenya. Water levels would rise to shoulder height after only a night of heavy downpour. The couple had expected a return of 200,000 shillings ($1,500) from Texas coast braces for looming hit by Beryl, which is expected to regain hurricane strength 07/06/2024 09:51pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Texas officials urged coastal residents to brace for a looming hit by Beryl, which was a tropical storm on Saturday but was expected to regain hurricane strength as it moves across the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A hurricane warning was declared for a stretch of the state's