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Olympics track and field Latest: Noah Lyles had chills, aches and sore throat from COVID 08/08/2024 04:30pm • PARIS (AP) — The latest updates from track and field events at Stade de France on Thursday at the Paris Olympics. U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles missed out on the double in the 200-meter final. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the United States went head-to-head with Femke Bol of the Netherlands in the 400- Justin Fields is anxious to compete, start for Steelers in preseason opener against Houston 08/08/2024 04:27pm • Latrobe, Pa. (AP) — When the Pittsburgh Steelers traded for Justin Fields in March, the only expectation they had for the former Chicago Bears quarterback was that he would compete. The Steelers don’t need the 25-year-old Fields to be their new franchise quarterback, though a void remains three Benjamin Thomas wins omnium gold at the Paris Olympics, Ellesse Andrews takes keirin title 08/08/2024 04:10pm • MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (AP) — Benjamin Thomas knew exactly where he was in the middle of the finale of the multidiscipline omnium — on his back, watching everyone else go by him on the track. Yet with unflappable calm, even amid the tumult of the chaotic event known as the points race, t Case that could keep RFK Jr. off New York's presidential ballot ends 08/08/2024 04:09pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A judge is expected to decide soon whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely listed a New York residence as the independent presidential candidate fights to get on the state ballot in November. A non-jury trial in Albany over whether Kennedy's New York nominating petitions should b WNBA's Toronto expansion seeks fan ideas for team name, colors 08/08/2024 03:45pm • TORONTO (AP) — Toronto’s new WNBA team has issued a “call for inspiration” to its fans for suggestions on a team name, colors and identity. “We don’t just want to be WNBA Toronto,” team president Teresa Resch told The Canadian Press. “We want to have a name and a logo and a colourway Caleb Williams will get his first preseason action against the Buffalo Bills on Saturday 08/08/2024 03:33pm • LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Caleb Williams will see his first NFL game action Saturday when the Chicago Bears play at the Buffalo Bills. Coach Matt Eberflus said Thursday that the quarterback will start the team's second preseason game, along with all other starters who are healthy. The first pick of Ex-Catalan leader Puigdemont, a fugitive since 2017, returns to Spain. But then he vanishes again 08/08/2024 03:32pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Police launched a manhunt in Barcelona on Thursday for fugitive Carles Puigdemont, a celebrated campaigner for Catalan independence who made a sensational return to Spain and an equally sensational getaway from a speech in the city with the alleged help of local police offi It's more than just the windmill. What to watch for as breaking kicks off at the Olympics 08/08/2024 03:31pm • PARIS (AP) — The b-girls and b-boys are ready for their spotlight. On Friday, the breakers, or breakdancers, begin syncing their moves to the DJ's breakbeat in front of the biggest audience breaking has ever known. Earlier this week, the dancers-turned-athletes at the Summer Olympics tested Boeing's new CEO visits factory that makes the 737 Max, including jet that lost door plug in flight 08/08/2024 03:10pm • A new chief executive took over at Boeing on Thursday, and he began by walking the floor of the factory near Seattle that has become the heart of the aerospace giant's troubles. Robert “Kelly” Ortberg takes the helm of a money-losing company that has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commi University of Georgia panel upholds sanctions for 6 students over Israel-Hamas war protest 08/08/2024 03:04pm • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Six University of Georgia students arrested during an April 29 protest against the Israel-Hamas war will remain suspended through the fall semester, the university's Office of Student Conduct announced Monday. The students will also remain on probation for the remainder of their St. Vincent channels something primal playing live music: 'It's kind of an exorcism for me' 08/08/2024 03:00pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — As sweaty fans pushed up against one another, clutching their drinks and swaying to the music, Annie Clark, known professionally as St. Vincent, was being transported. She recounts that surprise concert in May at the Paramount, an intimate, historic East Los Angeles venue, as a After baby's death, Kentucky parents sue infant formula maker at center of 2022 crisis 08/08/2024 02:30pm • The parents of a Kentucky baby who died last fall after drinking bacteria-tainted infant formula are the latest to sue Abbott Nutrition, the manufacturer at the heart of a 2022 crisis that left millions of Americans scrambling to feed their children. Willow Jade Dellaquila, of Carrollton, Kentucky, Forecasters still predict highly active Atlantic hurricane season in mid-season update 08/08/2024 02:27pm • MIAMI (AP) — Federal forecasters are still predicting a highly active Atlantic hurricane season thanks to near-record sea surface temperatures and the possibility of La Nina, officials said Thursday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's updated hurricane outlook said atmospheric a Average rate on a 30-year mortgage falls to 6.47%, lowest level in more than a year 08/08/2024 02:20pm • The average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell this week to its lowest level in more than a year, a welcome affordability boost for prospective home shoppers and homeowners looking to refinance their home loan to a lower rate. The rate fell to 6.47% from 6.73% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Tunisia's president replaces prime minister in the latest shakeup ahead of presidential election 08/08/2024 01:35pm • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's president has sacked the country's prime minister and replaced him with another Cabinet member, the latest shakeup in the North African country ahead of the October presidential election. President Kais Saied announced late Wednesday in a brief press release that h