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Victor Wembanyama 'can't wait' for a France-USA showdown at the Paris Olympics 06/27/2024 02:10pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Victor Wembanyama plays against the top names in the game with the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA. He can���t wait to do the same for France at the Paris Olympics. The NBA Rookie of the Year was asked Thursday about the potential for a France-USA final and possibly battling against LeBr Age is just a number in drag racing, where older drivers like John Force excel at high speed 06/27/2024 01:48pm • Tony Schumacher has a ready answer when fans wonder how much longer the 54-year-old, three-time world champion will keep climbing drag racing's ladder in the National Hot Rod Association. ���About 10 years,��� Schumacher said. ���That's what I've told them for the past 20 years.��� Age is just a n 2 killed, 5 injured in gang-related shooting in Southern California's high desert, authorities say 06/27/2024 01:06pm • LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) ��� Two people were killed and five others injured during a gang-related shooting in Southern California's high desert, authorities said. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were called to the scene in the city of Lancaster, about 42 miles (68 kilometers) north of downtown L Spain arrests four Colombians rescued from submarine suspected of transporting drugs 06/27/2024 12:27pm • MADRID (AP) ��� Spanish authorities intercepted another submarine suspected of transporting drugs to Europe from South America and arrested four Colombian nationals who were crewing the vessel, officials said Thursday. Police rescued the occupants after they had scuttled the 20-meter (65-foot) long Planning on traveling for the Fourth of July holiday? Here's how to avoid the rush 06/27/2024 11:41am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Fourth of July is right around the corner, and the travel rush is already heating up. Millions of Americans are preparing to get out of town sometime in the coming holiday week. That will likely mean busy roads, as well as packed airports and train stations. Motor club AAA proj Back to Woodstock, with Wi-Fi: Women return after 55 years to glamp and relive the famous festival 06/27/2024 10:31am • BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) ��� Beverly ���Cookie��� Grant hitchhiked to the Woodstock music festival in 1969 without a ticket and slept on straw. Ellen Shelburne arrived in a VW microbus and pitched a pup tent. Fifty-five years later, the two longtime friends finally got back to the garden, but this time in Today in Sports - Ali wins a 4-year legal battle to overturn his 1967 conviction for draft evasion 06/27/2024 10:10am • June 28 1935 ��� Alf Perry ties a British Open scoring record with a 283 total at Muirfield in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Perry���s finishes five-under for four-stroke win over Alf Padgham. 1939 ��� Joe Louis stops Tony Galento in the fourth round at Yankee Stadium to retain the world heavywei Today in Sports - Week Ahead, June 28 - July 4 06/27/2024 10:05am • June 28 1935 ��� Alf Perry ties a British Open scoring record with a 283 total at Muirfield in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Perry���s finishes five-under for four-stroke win over Alf Padgham. 1939 ��� Joe Louis stops Tony Galento in the fourth round at Yankee Stadium to retain the world heavywei Fire tears through the Danish taxation ministry, the latest major fire in Copenhagen 06/27/2024 08:38am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� A fire broke out Thursday on the top floor of a building housing Denmark���s taxation ministry in downtown Copenhagen, leading to the evacuation of the people inside the glass-and-steel construction on the harbor-front and from adjacent houses. There was no word on casua Canada's 2023 wildfires burned huge chunks of forest, spewing far more heat-trapping gas than planes 06/27/2024 08:24am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Catastrophic Canadian warming-fueled wildfires last year pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than India did by burning fossil fuels, setting ablaze an area of forest larger than West Virginia, new research found. Scientists at the World Resources Institute and t Swedish police investigate three unexplained deaths at an electric vehicle battery plant 06/27/2024 06:56am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� Police in northern Sweden said Thursday they were looking into the unexplained deaths of three men who had died within a short period after working at an electric vehicle battery plant in the Arctic. They want to find out whether the deaths are linked, whether a crime ha Wind-driven wildfire spreads near popular central Oregon vacation spot and prompts evacuations 06/27/2024 05:56am • A wildfire in Oregon���s high desert, near the popular vacation destination of Bend, grew rapidly Wednesday, and officials urged the continued evacuations of hundreds of homes in the area best known for its microbreweries, hiking, river rafting and skiing on nearby Mount Bachelor. The wind-driven Da Vingegaard and Pogacar set to resume Tour de France rivalry. Doubts remain over Vingegaard's fitness 06/27/2024 05:17am • When Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar faced off in the heat of July last year, the main question mark was whether Pogacar would be fit enough to mount a decent challenge. This year, as the two cyclists prepare to write the next chapter of one of the greatest rivalries in the storied history of the Cardinals host the Reds to open 4-game series 06/27/2024 04:00am • Cincinnati Reds (37-43, fourth in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (41-38, second in the NL Central) St. Louis; Thursday, 7:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Andrew Abbott (6-6, 3.40 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 70 strikeouts); Cardinals: Miles Mikolas (6-6, 4.68 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 67 strikeouts) BETMGM In the searing heat of the Gaza summer, Palestinians are surrounded by sewage and garbage 06/27/2024 01:00am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) ��� Children in sandals trudge through water contaminated with sewage and scale growing mounds of garbage in Gaza���s crowded tent camps for displaced families. People relieve themselves in burlap-covered pits, with nowhere nearby to wash their hands. In the stifling summer