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Latinos are excited about Harris, but she has work to do to win the crucial voting bloc, experts say 08/11/2024 08:02am • Latino voters and leaders say they are enthusiastic about Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee, but for her to win their crucial support, they want to know where she stands on issues like the economy, immigration and education. Vanessa Cruz Nichols, an assistant professor of politica Former students and colleagues recall high school teachers Tim and Gwen Walz as allies and advocates 08/11/2024 07:32am • MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Jacob Reitan said he told Gwen Walz he was gay before he told his parents. Reitan was a student in 1999 at Mankato West High School in Minnesota, where Walz and her husband, Tim, were teachers. In her classroom, Gwen Walz had announced at the start of his sophomore year that Inside the Stephen Curry flurry: How 4 shots sealed another gold for the US in Olympic basketball 08/11/2024 06:54am • PARIS (AP) — Stephen Curry had only five 3-pointers in his first four games of the Paris Olympics combined. The shot just wasn't falling. And then came the medal round. The all-time 3-point king in NBA history found his stroke in the nick of time for the Americans, making 17 3-pointers in the last Montgomery County fair brings a taste of country living to the DC suburbs 08/11/2024 04:56am • The gates opened Saturday on the 75th Montgomery County Agricultural Fair at the fairgrounds in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In the cattle pavilion, young 4-H members paraded their Heifers, which they've been raising since last fall, before judges and a wide-eyed audience of suburbanites and city dwel After another gold medal, the US men's basketball program will now catch its breath 08/11/2024 04:05am • PARIS (AP) — The first practice for the U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team after arriving in Paris was one of those workouts that those who were there, watching behind closed doors, will talk about for a long time. Players were split up evenly. Go play, they were told. What happened next set the Golden Steph: Curry's late barrage seals another Olympic men's basketball title, as US beats France 08/11/2024 03:26am • PARIS (AP) — Stephen Curry was thinking about this two years ago, after winning his fourth NBA title with the Golden State Warriors. The only thing left for him to win was Olympic gold. And in the ultimate moment, he made sure that medal would be his. The U.S. is atop the international men’s bas Logan Gilbert dominant on mound as Mariners shut out Mets for 2nd straight day, 4-0 08/11/2024 01:17am • SEATTLE (AP) — Logan Gilbert threw seven scoreless innings and combined with two relievers on Seattle’s major league-best 13th shutout of the season as the Mariners beat the New York Mets 4-0 on Saturday night. Gilbert was dominant allowing just three hits and followed what Bryce Miller did in t Rublev beats top-seeded defending champion Sinner to reach Montreal semifinals 08/11/2024 12:51am • MONTREAL (AP) — Fifth-seeded Andrey Rublev outlasted top-seeded defending champion Jannik Sinner 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 on Saturday night to reach the semifinals in the rain-delayed National Bank Open. Rublev beat Brandon Nakashima 6-2, 6-2 earlier Saturday, while Sinner also was playing his second match o McCarthy homers twice, Diamondbacks rout Phillies 11-1, but Marte and Gallen leave early 08/11/2024 12:30am • PHOENIX (AP) — Jake McCarthy hit two home runs, Ketel Marte got his 30th of the season before leaving with a left ankle contusion and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Philadelphia Phillies 11-1 on Saturday night. Corbin Carroll also homered for Arizona, which has won 14 of its last 17 games to mo Where do you live? That's a complicated question for a California town with no street addresses 08/11/2024 12:07am • CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. (AP) — No one in this wealthy California community known for its white-sand beaches and storybook charm has a street address. But unlike the houses in Carmel-By-The-Sea, those days may soon be numbered. After more than a century of address-free living, this seaside touris Why the fastest-growing place for young kids in the US is in the metro with the oldest residents 08/11/2024 12:04am • THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — As one of the world's largest retirement communities, The Villages in central Florida is known for its endless golf courses, having the oldest median age in the United States and its traffic-stopping golf-cart parades usually supporting a Republican candidate during campa Everyone agrees there's a homeless crisis in the US. Plans to address it vary among mayor candidates 08/11/2024 12:01am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Mayor London Breed has launched a new crackdown on people sleeping outside in a campaign to clear the sidewalks of homeless encampments that have come to define the city. Her four challengers in November's election, all Democrats, say she hasn't handled the crisi Swanson gets 2 hits after wife wins gold, Amaya delivers 2-run single as Cubs beat White Sox 3-1 08/10/2024 11:41pm • Dansby Swanson had two hits hours after his wife won an Olympic gold medal, Miguel Amaya delivered a tiebreaking two-run single in the eighth inning, and the Chicago Cubs beat the crosstown White Sox 3-1 on Saturday night to complete a two-game sweep. Nico Hoerner walked leading off the eighth again Bears rout Bills 33-6 in Caleb Williams' preseason debut 08/10/2024 11:39pm • ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Caleb Williams showed signs of promise in the No. 1 draft pick’s preseason debut, overseeing a pair of drives ending in field goals in the Chicago Bears’ 33-6 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Saturday. The 22-year-old out of Southern California completed four of seve Sam Howell directs 2 scoring drives as Seahawks beat Chargers 16-3 to spoil Jim Harbaugh's debut 08/10/2024 11:33pm • INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Sam Howell threw for 130 yards and a touchdown in his Seattle debut and the Seahawks had a successful preseason opener under Mike Macdonald, defeating the Chargers 16-3 on Saturday in coach Jim Harbaugh's first game with Los Angeles. Howell, acquired from Washington during