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Australia's Arisa Trew wins gold in women's park skateboarding at Paris Games 08/06/2024 02:28pm • PARIS (AP) — After Australia's Arisa Trew scored a 93.18 on her final run in women's park skateboarding Tuesday at the Paris Olympics, she knew she was heading to the podium. The wait to see exactly where she would land was excruciating. It was only when a 92.63 popped up for Japan's Cocona Hira Toll Brothers plans luxury townhomes at aging, 72-year-old Chase Manor apartment site 08/06/2024 12:21pm • One of the first garden-style apartment communities in Chevy Chase, Maryland, will be redeveloped as luxury townhomes. The Chevy Chase Land Company has sold the former Chase Manor Apartments to luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers, which will redevelop the 4-acre site into a townhome community called Fickle winds scuttle medal races again, now in the biggest, most diverse Olympic sailing class 08/06/2024 12:13pm • MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Fickle winds in Marseille have altered the sailing schedule for the 2024 Olympics for the second time, forcing the postponement of the medal races for one-person dinghies on Tuesday. Organizers are hoping to run the men's and women's races on Wednesday instead. Through nin Financial markets around the world stabilize after recent rout. Here's what to know 08/06/2024 12:03pm • Markets on Wall Street and in Asia are stabilizing Tuesday following a mini-panic caused by an assortment of factors that stretched from late last week through Monday. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq each rose 1.3% in morning trading and were on track to break a brutal three-day losing streak. The S& Mixed feelings for Sam Watson in Paris after he beats US teammate to break own climbing world record 08/06/2024 11:42am • LE BOURGET, France (AP) — There were mixed feelings for American Sam Watson after he broke his own world record for speed sport climbing at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday. He accomplished the feat in an elimination heat against American teammate Zach Hammer. “It sucks, there’s no better way to French imports of Russia's liquified natural gas surge, and Ukraine supporters seek a stop 08/06/2024 11:38am • Shipments of Russian liquified natural gas to France more than doubled the first half of this year, according to new analyses of trade data, at a time when Europe has tried to pull back from energy purchases that help finance the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine. Europe has restricted oil imports from NASCAR Cup Series, Truck Series fire back up after 2 weeks off, F1, Larson wins in Sprint Cars 08/06/2024 11:25am • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Cook Out 400. Site: Richmond, Virginia. Schedule: Saturday, practice, 4:30 p.m.; Saturday, qualifying, 5:35 p.m.; Sunday race, 6 p.m. (USA Network). Track: Richmond Raceway. Race distance: 400 laps, 300 miles. Last year: Chris Buescher pulled away on a restart ‘Shadows of children:’ For the youngest hostages, life moves forward in whispers 08/06/2024 11:22am • HERZLIYA, Israel (AP) — After seven weeks held hostage in the tunnels of Gaza, they are finally free to laugh and chat and play. But some of the children who have come back from captivity are still reluctant to raise their voices above a whisper. In theory, they can eat what they want, sleep as mu This Commanders fan just turned 100. She's still spending her summer at training camp 08/06/2024 11:00am • Washington Commanders super fan Melba Jacobson recently turned 100 years old! I met her at training camp 10 years ago, and she's still going strong with her fandom. We reminisced about our first meeting and all the players — past and present — Jacobson has met over the years. Former quart Women head to Paris for Olympics. Final event for PGA Tour to qualify for postseason 08/06/2024 09:56am • International Olympic Committee WOMEN'S GOLF COMPETITION Site: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. Course: Le Golf National. Yardage: 6,374. Par: 72. Prize: Gold, silver, bronze medals. Television: Wednesday-Friday, 3 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel); Saturday, 3 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Golf Channel). Defendi Energy Department awards $2.2B to strengthen the electrical grid and add clean power 08/06/2024 08:41am • The Department of Energy on Tuesday announced $2.2 billion in funding for eight projects across 18 states to strengthen the electrical grid against increasing extreme weather, advance the transition to cleaner electricity and meet a growing demand for power. The money will help build more than 600 m The Olympics are over and Shane Lowry wants to make a big push for his best chance in the FedEx Cup 08/06/2024 08:37am • SAINT QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — Shane Lowry was among 21 players at the Paris Olympics who headed across the Atlantic Ocean for the PGA Tour’s final tournament of the regular season that determines the top 70 who advance to the FedEx Cup postseason. What makes the Irishman stand out is American Masai Russell leads stacked field of hurdlers chasing Camacho-Quinn's Olympic title 08/06/2024 08:32am • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — After making it to the Paris Olympics, 100-meter hurdler Masai Russell treated herself to a new black Mercedes. Imagine the reward should the American star bring home gold. Imagine the social media content, too. When she's not leaping over hurdles, Russell is a world-cla Do you know who Mary McLeod Bethune is? New exhibition explores her work and legacy 08/06/2024 07:35am • Mary McLeod Bethune was a civil rights activist and founder of the National Council of Negro Women, an educator who, against insurmountable odds, opened a school in 1904 for Black girls in Florida, and a member of a group of informal advisers to then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt known as the "Bl Analysis: Golf a good fit in the Olympics even if it doesn't look like other Olympic sports 08/06/2024 07:06am • SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — What was meant as a celebration of golf in the Olympics quickly turned into a reminder that the royal and ancient game still has a long way to go before it feels like it truly belongs. In the field for the Genesis Invitational last year were Justin Rose and