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University of Vermont president picked to lead the University of Arizona 08/09/2024 06:40pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Suresh Garimella, president of the University of Vermont since 2019, has been selected to serve as the new leader of the University of Arizona. The Arizona Board of Regents voted Friday to hire Garimella to replace Robert Robbins, who has served as president of the Tucson-base Michael Brown's death 10 years ago sparked change in Ferguson 08/09/2024 06:30pm • FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown once told his father the “world is going to know my name,” words Michael Brown Sr. still takes to heart. Friday marks 10 years since the 18-year-old was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, turning the St. Louis suburb into the focal point of the US Coast Guard patrol spots Russian military ship off Alaska islands 08/09/2024 06:19pm • JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands came across a Russian ship in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone, officials said. The crew on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley on Monday detected the vessel abo U.S. Track has dramatic night in 4x100 relay, Khelif gets her gold 08/09/2024 06:11pm • PARIS (AP) — It was a dramatic Friday night for the United States in track and field at the Paris Olympics, and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won gold after facing scrutiny over misconceptions about her sex. Sha’Carri Richardson got her first gold medal while a U.S. men’s relay team fumbled a Bodycam video shows Baltimore officers opening fire on fleeing teen moments after seeing his gun 08/09/2024 05:54pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Newly released body-camera footage shows three Baltimore police officers unleashing a barrage of gunfire on a fleeing teenage suspect almost immediately after spotting a gun in his hand. William Gardner, 17, was shot a dozen times, officials said at a news conference Friday aft Israeli troops launch a new assault into Gaza's Khan Younis as mediators push for cease-fire talks 08/09/2024 05:36pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops launched a new assault Friday into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, targeting Hamas fighters who the military claims still operate there despite repeated offensives, as American, Qatari and Egyptian mediators renewed their push for Israel and H Sha’Carri Richardson rallies US women in Olympic 4x100 while men shut out again 08/09/2024 05:29pm • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Sha’Carri Richardson made her first Olympic gold-medal moment memorable — giving the sprinters behind her the side-eye, then stomping her foot to the track on her final step across the finish line. Afterward, she moved aside to watch the U.S. men do what they do best Japan's b-girl Ami wins Olympic breaking's first gold medal 08/09/2024 05:26pm • PARIS (AP) — Japan's b-girl Ami won gold at the Olympics ' first breaking event by spinning, flipping and toprocking past a field of 16 dancers Friday in a high-energy competition that may not return for future Games. Ami, legally named Ami Yuasa, won all three rounds in a battle against b-girl Ni Prompted by mass shooting, 72-hour wait period and other new gun laws go into effect in Maine 08/09/2024 05:07pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — With eleventh hour guidance from the state, Maine gun retailers on Friday began requiring a three-day wait period for gun purchases under one of the new safety laws adopted following the state’s deadliest mass shooting. Maine joined a dozen other states with similar laws, EU and US call for the release of Belarus' political prisoners on the anniversary of mass protests 08/09/2024 05:06pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The European Union and the United States on Friday marked the fourth anniversary of massive protests in Belarus by calling for the release of all political prisoners and voicing support for the Belarusian people. The 2020 election, widely seen as fraudulen t both at home an Olivia Reeves wins the United States' first Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in 24 years 08/09/2024 05:05pm • PARIS (AP) — Olivia Reeves tried treating the Olympics like just another competition. It didn't work. It didn't matter, either. Nerves or no nerves, Reeves won the United States' first Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in 24 years at the Paris Games on Friday. “Feeling the weight of this compe Dedovic helps Serbia beat the US 10-6 in the men's water polo semifinals at the Paris Olympics 08/09/2024 05:03pm • NANTERRE, France (AP) — Nikola Dedovic scored four times and Serbia beat the U.S. 10-6 on Friday in the semifinals of the men's water polo tournament at the Paris Olympics, ending the Americans' surprising run. Serbia is trying to become the third men’s team to win three consecutive Olympic gold U.S. teenager Kristina Teachout wins bronze in taekwondo as CJ Nickolas misses out on medal 08/09/2024 04:19pm • PARIS (AP) — CJ Nickolas waited 20 years for this moment. So on the eve of his taekwondo competition at the Paris Olympics, after slumbering for two weeks on a cardboard bed at the athletes village, the Californian made sure he would sleep like a baby. He booked a room in a hotel near the Grand Pa Russia blocks Signal messaging app as authorities tighten control over information 08/09/2024 03:30pm • MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's state communications watchdog said Friday it has blocked access to the Signal messaging app, the latest move in the authorities' efforts to tighten controls over information amid the fighting in Ukraine. The agency, Roskomnadzor, said it made the decision because of Signal's JuJu Smith-Schuster will be released by the New England Patriots, AP source says 08/09/2024 03:17pm • Wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, who helped the Kansas City Chiefs win a Super Bowl two years ago, will be released by the New England Patriots, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Friday because the team hasn’t announced