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Raiders QB competition is tight entering preseason game at Minnesota 08/06/2024 06:25pm • Raiders coach Antonio Pierce hopes to finally take a major step forward Saturday in picking the starting quarterback when Las Vegas opens its preseason at Minnesota. Pierce said a decision will be made later this week whether incumbent Aidan O'Connell or free agent signee Gardner Minshew would start Israel-Hamas war latest: Hamas chooses Oct. 7 mastermind as their new leader as wider war feared 08/06/2024 06:16pm • The Palestinian militant group Hamas said Tuesday it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader. The choice of the hardliner was a defiant move by Hamas, whose political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran last week in a pr American Cole Hocker pulls Olympic shocker in men's 1,500, leaving Kerr and Ingebrigtsen behind 08/06/2024 06:01pm • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — The race was billed as a bar brawl between the two baddest 1,500-meter runners in the world. Nobody figured the little-known American guy would sneak up on both of them, steal the show and take the Olympic gold medal with him. Cole Hocker threw a jolt into track Tuesday Georgia property owners battle railroad company in ongoing eminent domain case 08/06/2024 05:56pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A hearing on Tuesday raised questions about a railroad company’s use of eminent domain in one of Georgia’s poorest areas. After three days of hearings in November, an officer for the Georgia Public Service Commission granted Sandersville Railroad Co.'s request to legally condemn US women's volleyball team advances to semifinal with straight-set win against Poland 08/06/2024 05:50pm • PARIS (AP) — The reigning Olympic champion U.S. women’s volleyball team posted a straight-set victory against Poland on Tuesday night at the Paris Olympics. The Americans led throughout while taking the first two sets, 25-22 and 25-14. They fell behind 5-0 and 7-1 in the third set before rallyin Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler Mijain Lopez wins record fifth straight gold, and then retires 08/06/2024 05:43pm • PARIS (AP) — Mijain Lopez has gone out on top. The 41-year-old Cuban defeated Yasmani Acosta Fernandez of Chile 6-0 in the 130-kilogram final at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday to win his fifth consecutive gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling. He’s the first Olympic athlete to win gold in the same Brazil, Colombia and Mexico in talks with Venezuelan government and opposition on election crisis 08/06/2024 05:42pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Since Venezuela’s disputed presidential election nine days ago, officials from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico have been in constant contact with representatives of both Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and opposition candidate Edmundo González, seeking a solution to t Paris Olympics Day 11: Gabby Thomas leads Americans to 2 golds — 5 overall — at track and field 08/06/2024 05:30pm • PARIS (AP) — The United States had a big night in track and field at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, winning two gold medals and five overall. Gabby Thomas blazed her way to an easy win in the 200 meters — and beat 100-meter winner Julien Alfred, who earned silver and now owns the only two med Tesla burns after driver in Mexico plugs the car into an illicit hookup wired directly to power line 08/06/2024 05:28pm • TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — A driver in the Mexican border city of Tijuana apparently had the bright idea of connecting his Tesla to an illegal electricity hookup connected directly to a powerline. Not only did the Tesla eventually burst into flames, the blaze was so hot it set a neighboring house on Fast-moving Southern California wildfire torches hillside homes, forcing evacuations 08/06/2024 05:25pm • SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire that swept into a Southern California hillside community this week destroyed five homes and damaged three others, authorities said Tuesday. The flames erupted Monday afternoon and chased residents from the neighborhood in San Bernardino, about 6 Brazil beats Spain 4-2 to move into an Olympic women's soccer final against the United States (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported Brazil beat Germany) 08/06/2024 05:21pm • MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Brazil beats Spain 4-2 to move into an Olympic women's soccer final against the United States (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported Brazil beat Germany). Harvard graduate Gabby Thomas sprints to 200-meter gold medal for the United States by a big margin 08/06/2024 05:16pm • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Before Gabby Thomas set foot on the Stade de France's purple track, surrounded by 80,000 or so screaming spectators, her coach gave her some last-minute advice. “The only thing I needed to do was get the lead. Get the lead and then finish strong,” Thomas said, recoun Calm returns to Wall Street, and stocks bounce back after their worst drop in nearly 2 years 08/06/2024 05:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A rising tide swept stocks higher, and calm returned to Wall Street after Japan’s market soared earlier Tuesday to claw back much of the losses from its worst day since 1987. The S&P 500 climbed 1% to break a brutal three-day losing streak. It had tumbled a bit more than 6% o Michigan State guard Jeremy Fears says he's grateful to play with Spartans in Spain after being shot 08/06/2024 05:12pm • EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State point guard Jeremy Fears is joining the team for an upcoming overseas trip and plans to play for Tom Izzo for the first time since he was shot last winter. “Grateful for this opportunity to get to play some scrimmage games, and just being able to play ag Global stock volatility hits the presidential election, with Trump decrying a 'Kamala Crash' 08/06/2024 05:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is hoping a dramatic sell-off in the U.S. stock market creates an opening to attack his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, over who is best positioned to shepherd the economy. Trump’s campaign labeled the Monday drop as a “Kamala Cra