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Kipyegon puts drama from night before behind her, starts quest for 3rd straight 1,500 Olympic title 08/06/2024 06:47am • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Faith Kipyegon of Kenya opened her bid Tuesday for a third straight Olympic 1,500-meter title, turning the page on a drama-filled night that ultimately ended with a medal for her. Kipyegon finished fourth in her first-round heat to advance to the semifinal round. The nig Tropical Storm Debby is expected to send flooding to the Southeast. Here's how much rain could fall 08/06/2024 06:07am • Northern Florida, the coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina and parts of North Carolina are bracing for severe rain and catastrophic flooding this week as the Debby storm system moves up and east. Debby made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the Big Bend coast of Florida early Monday, fi Report: Howard men's basketball coach pitching ownership stake for potential investors 08/06/2024 04:47am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Howard University's men's basketball coach is reportedly pitching a proposal to potential investors in which a 33% stake in the program could be sold for $100 million. “College athletics is a full-fledged business now,” Kenny Blakeney, the team's coach, told the Washington Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index soars more than 10% after plunging a day earlier 08/06/2024 04:21am • TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 share index soared as much as 10.7% early Tuesday, a day after it plunged the most in 37 years. The index gave up some of those gains as it wavered throughout the day but closed 10.2% higher at 34,675.46. Other Asian markets also were higher after sharp Move over Napa Valley, Northern Virginia is now wine country 08/06/2024 03:38am • If world-renowned winemaker Robert Mondavi was right when he said that "making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art," then there must be a lot of artists in Virginia. Northern Virginia was named America’s next great wine region by The Wall Street Journal's wine columnist Lettie Teag Emotional Freddie Freeman gets hug from Bryce Harper in return to Dodgers as ailing son recovers 08/06/2024 01:25am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Freddie Freeman singled and got a hug from Phillies star Bryce Harper in his return to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ lineup on Monday night after missing eight games to be with his ailing 3-year-old son, who is out of danger after a serious medical diagnosis. “I’m back," he sai Embracing election conspiracies could sink a Kansas sheriff who once looked invulnerable 08/06/2024 12:35am • DE SOTO, Kan. (AP) — The sheriff in Kansas' most populous county faced no opposition to his reelection four years ago, extending a decades-long Republican lock on the office despite big gains locally by Democrats during the Trump era. Then he took on election fraud as a cause. The GOP in Johnson Josh Smith game-ending HR for Rangers in 4-3 win after Astros go ahead on consecutive hit batters 08/06/2024 12:29am • ARLINGTON, Texcas (AP) — Josh Smith hit his first game-ending homer at any level, and it came for the Texas Rangers against the Houston Astros in the opener of the final series this season between the AL West rivals and last two World Series champions. Smith pulled a 410-foot homer into the right- The Latest: Harris, facing a crucial week, closes in on running mate pick 08/06/2024 12:28am • Vice President Kamala Harris, grappling with how to keep early 2024 Presidential election momentum alive, has begun a crucial week that includes her most critical decision yet: choosing a running mate. While Harris had quickly secured enough delegates to become the Democratic nominee, delegates stil Tropical Storm Debby hits Florida with floods, threat of record rain in Georgia and the Carolinas 08/05/2024 11:17pm • HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tropical Storm Debby slammed Florida on Monday with torrential rain and high winds, contributing to at least four deaths in the state and the rescue of hundreds from flooded homes before turning menacingly toward the Eastern Seaboard’s low-lying regions and threateni Eugenio Suárez's RBI single off Emmanuel Clase in 10th gives Diamondbacks 7-6 win over Guardians 08/05/2024 11:09pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Eugenio Suárez singled off All-Star closer Emmanuel Clase in the 10th inning to score automatic runner Corbin Carroll, lifting the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 7-6 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Monday night. The Guardians had forced extra innings on Daniel Schneemann’s s Venezuela's top prosecutor announces criminal probe against opposition leaders González, Machado 08/05/2024 10:24pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s top prosecutor on Monday announced a criminal investigation against the opposition’s presidential candidate Edmundo González and its leader Maria Corina Machado over their call on the armed forces to abandon their support for President Nicolás Maduro and The Latest: Debby blamed for multiple deaths in Florida, Georgia, leaves thousands without power 08/05/2024 10:22pm • High winds and heavy rains from Tropical Storm Debby lashed Florida on Monday. At least four deaths were reported in the state, and hundreds had to be rescued from flooded homes. The storm is now threatening to flood some of America’s most historic Southern cities. Here's the Latest: Hundreds res Elon Musk sues OpenAI, renewing claims ChatGPT-maker put profits before 'the benefit of humanity' 08/05/2024 10:17pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elon Musk filed a lawsuit on Monday against OpenAI and two of its founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, renewing claims that the ChatGPT-maker betrayed its founding aims of benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits. The lawsuit, filed in a Northern California fed Cambodia breaks ground on a China-funded canal and says it will be built 'no matter the cost' 08/05/2024 09:54pm • PREK TAKEO, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia broke ground Monday on a controversial, China-funded canal to link the capital Phnom Penh to the sea, despite environmental concerns and the risk of straining ties with neighboring Vietnam. The $1.7 billion, 180-kilometer (111 miles) Funan Techo canal is planne