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3 years after the NFL added a 17th game, the push for an 18th gets stronger 08/07/2024 03:42pm • SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The debate about whether the NFL will expand the regular season once again seems to have been resolved and now it's a matter of how soon the league adds an 18th game. Commissioner Roger Goodell has talked openly about it, union chief Lloyd Howell recently told the Washin Texas running back CJ Baxter lost for season with training camp knee injury that requires surgery 08/07/2024 03:33pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas running back CJ Baxter injured a knee in practice this week and will miss the 2024 season, the team announced Wednesday. Baxter will have surgery, but no other details about the injury were provided by the school. Baxter in 2023 was the first Longhorn freshman tailback t Panama arrests 15 people for smuggling Chinese migrants through the Darien Gap 08/07/2024 03:31pm • PANAMA CITY (AP) — Border police in Panama said Wednesday that they have arrested 15 people who allegedly ran a smuggling ring to move Chinese migrants through the Darien Gap. The dangerous, jungle-clad gap connects Colombia and Panama, and represents a major route for migrants to reach the U.S. Hamas has a new leader. How will that affect the war in Gaza and cease-fire efforts? 08/07/2024 03:22pm • Yahya Sinwar's appointment as the top leader of Hamas formalizes a role he assumed in the early hours of Oct. 7, when the surprise attack into Israel that he helped mastermind ushered in the bloodiest chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is seen as a hard-liner with closer ties to Hamas' Israel-Hamas war latest: New Hamas leader can ensure a cease-fire deal is reached, Blinken says 08/07/2024 03:14pm • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the newly chosen Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has the power to ensure that a cease-fire deal is reached for the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The Palestinian militant group on Tuesday chose Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in I Marit Bouwmeester wins women's dinghy gold, Matt Wearn is Olympic champion again 08/07/2024 03:12pm • MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Marit Bouwmeester of the Netherlands won the gold medal in the women's dinghy at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, and Australia’s Matt Wearn made it back-to-back Olympic titles on the men's side. Denmark's Anne-Marie Rindom, a four-time Olympian who won gold in Tokyo thr Australia's Keegan Palmer repeats as Olympic park skateboarding champion at Paris Games 08/07/2024 02:54pm • PARIS (AP) — Winning back-to-back Olympic golds was almost overwhelming for Keegan Palmer, with legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk praising his work and Snoop Dogg in the bowl at the Paris Games watching. “Wild, crazy feeling dude!” Palmer said Wednesday after defending the park title he won in Picking a running mate: Inside the 16 days between Kamala Harris' launch and her choice of Tim Walz 08/07/2024 02:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris’ whirlwind process to select Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate can be summed up in a word: weird. With President Joe Biden and Harris, his vice president, seeking a second term together, Democrats weren’t supposed to have a veep search at all. But as s Virginia is 'Closer to Fine' as Indigo Girls ride the 'Barbie' wave all the way to Wolf Trap 08/07/2024 02:21pm • Margot Robbie cruised to their music last summer in the box-office blockbuster "Barbie." Now, the folk-rock duo Indigo Girls plays Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, on Aug. 24 and Aug. 25, sharing a bill with Melissa Etheridge by swapping who will open and close each night. "It's a true co- Refugee athlete's dream of a taekwondo medal is cut short at Paris Olympics 08/07/2024 02:16pm • PARIS (AP) — Having overcome so many hurdles, refugee athlete Hadi Tiranvalipour experienced immense disappointment Wednesday as his dream of winning an Olympic medal was cut short when he lost in a taekwondo qualification bout at the Paris Games. Tiranvalipour, 26, was up against Omar Ismail of P Project 2025's new leader Kevin Roberts postpones his own book launch until after the election 08/07/2024 01:51pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — As Project 2025 hits turmoil, the head of the influential, far-right Heritage Foundation is postponing the release of his potentially fiery new book until after the November presidential election. Kevin Roberts, who took over Project 2025 as part of a leadership shake-up amid blo Mother knows best: For Wanda Durant, watching Kevin Durant will never grow old 08/07/2024 01:20pm • PARIS (AP) — They gave Kevin Durant the game ball after he broke Lisa Leslie's all-time U.S. Olympic basketball scoring record in the quarterfinals of the Paris Games. And, of course, he got plenty of congratulations afterward from his biggest fan. That fan — Wanda Durant, his mother — wasn Jets safety-turned-cornerback Jarrick Bernard-Converse focused on football now, becoming a vet later 08/07/2024 01:11pm • FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Jarrick Bernard-Converse was always fascinated by animals as a kid. Dogs, cats, birds, fish, horses, guinea pigs, cows. You name it and the New York Jets cornerback wanted to learn more. “I just love animals,” Bernard-Converse said. “Any time one of our dogs got sic Utility company's proposal to rat out hidden marijuana operations to police raises privacy concerns 08/07/2024 12:26pm • BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Operators of illegal marijuana grow enterprises hidden inside rural homes in Maine don’t have to worry much about prying neighbors. But their staggering electric bills may give rise to a new snitch. An electric utility made an unusual proposal to help law enforcement target Movie Review: 'It Ends With Us' with Blake Lively tackles big issues but slips into soap opera 08/07/2024 12:21pm • Lily Bloom and Ryle Kincaid don't really meet-cute. On a rooftop in Boston, he announces himself by angrily kicking a patio chair. She's up there trying to come to terms with her abusive father's death. They talk about maraschino cherries, gun violence and flirt. There's something off about this pai