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Coco Gauff isn't sure how many Olympics matches she needs to win but she knows she wants medals 07/28/2024 04:24pm • PARIS (AP) — Coco Gauff is 2-0 so far at the Paris Olympics after adding a 6-3, 6-0 singles victory over Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic on Sunday to a win a day earlier in doubles alongside Jessica Pegula. Gauff also is entered in mixed doubles with Taylor Fritz, which means there could be a lot of Tua Tagovailoa eager to help Dolphins end playoff drought after signing extension 07/28/2024 03:55pm • MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — His new contract signed, Tua Tagovailoa acknowledged the heightened expectations tied to its value. The Miami Dolphins' fifth-year quarterback will no longer need to worry about his future with the club after he signed a four-year extension on Sunday. The deal will pay T Hamilton declared winner of F1 Belgian GP after Mercedes teammate Russell DQ for underweight car 07/28/2024 02:57pm • SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (AP) — Lewis Hamilton was promoted to first place at the Belgian Grand Prix after race officials disqualified his Mercedes teammate George Russell for driving an underweight car on Sunday. Russell crossed the line first after making only one pit stop, finishing just ahea Medical issue prevents Tony Randazzo from umpiring Marlins-Brewers game 07/28/2024 02:51pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) — Umpire Tony Randazzo didn’t work the Miami Marlins-Milwaukee Brewers game on Sunday afternoon because of what was described as a non-life-threatening medical issue. The nature of Randazzo’s issue wasn’t specified. Randazzo was expected to be the first-base umpire for Sunday� Australia's Fox wins women's kayak singles gold; family's first win in event after 4 previous medals 07/28/2024 02:48pm • VAIRES-SUR-MARNE, France (AP) — Australia's Jessica Fox completed a journey her mother started more than three decades ago. Fox finally won an Olympic gold medal in women's kayak singles for the family on its sixth try. She'd placed second in 2012 and third in 2016 and 2021 in the whitewater event Two meteor showers will flash across the sky around the same time in late July 07/28/2024 02:48pm • Get ready for a meteor shower doubleheader. The Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower peaks in late July. And this year, it will coincide with a second smaller meteor shower, the Alpha Capricornids. The Delta Aquariids occur every year in North America's late summer. This year’s peak activity ha DC man sentenced to 18 years for carjacking, shooting driver 07/28/2024 02:25pm • A judge has sentenced a D.C. man to 18 years in prison after he was convicted by a jury in March of armed carjacking, assault and related charges. Tayvon Owens, 31, was sentenced for shooting and carjacking a woman on Newton Street NW in December of 2022, according to a news release from the U.S. Field hockey to have mixed-gender on-field umpiring at the Olympics for the 1st time 07/28/2024 02:07pm • PARIS (AP) — Field hockey will have mixed gender on-field umpiring at the Paris Games, which the sport's governing body said was a first in Olympic play. The International Hockey Federation, or FIH, announced the move Sunday. The organization has had mixed gender umpiring at other tournaments but Fires in the West are becoming ever bigger, consuming. Why and what can be done? 07/28/2024 01:56pm • Decades of snuffing out fires at the first sign of smoke combined with climate change have laid the groundwork for a massive wildfire in northern California and scores of smaller ones across the western U.S. and Canada, experts say. These fires are moving faster and are harder to fight than those i Attorney for cartel leader 'El Mayo’ Zambada says his client was kidnapped and brought to the US 07/28/2024 01:37pm • HOUSTON (AP) — The lawyer of a powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who is now in U.S. custody pushed back Sunday against claims that his client was tricked into flying into the country, saying he was “forcibly kidnapped” by the son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Ismael “El Mayo” Zamba Qualifying didn't go as planned for American gymnast Brody Malone. Redemption awaits in the final 07/28/2024 01:05pm • PARIS (AP) — Brody Malone has spent the last 16 months defying the odds, improbably coming back from a catastrophic right knee injury in the spring of 2023 to reach the Olympics for a second time. When the 24-year-old won his third national title in June, he looked every bit the star the Americans Focused amid the gunfire, an AP photographer captures another perspective of attack on Trump 07/28/2024 12:45pm • BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Gene Puskar has been with The Associated Press for 45 years. Based in Pittsburgh, his career has spanned a wide range of events including the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, the Sept. 11 attack that downed Flight 93, Stanley Cups and World Series, many presidential and ca Megan Gustafson chasing an Olympic medal playing basketball with Spain 07/28/2024 12:08pm • VILLENEUVE-D'ASCQ, France (AP) — Megan Gustafson has been The Associated Press women's college basketball player of the year, a WNBA draft pick and played basketball around the world. The native of Port Wing, Wisconsin, and now backup on the Las Vegas Aces is an Olympian. With a victory to boot. Olympic golf path for Stephan Jaeger goes from Germany through Tennessee 07/28/2024 11:21am • SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — Stephan Jaeger has a history of introducing himself with a score on his card rather than explaining his German roots, his subtle Tennessee accent and a path that eventually led him to Le Golf National for the Paris Olympics. Xander Schauffele, fresh off win Firefighters helped by cooler weather battle blaze that has scorched area larger than Los Angeles 07/28/2024 10:32am • FOREST RANCH, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in Northern California received some help from the weather hours after it exploded in size, scorching an area greater than the size of Los Angeles. The blaze was one of several tearing through the western United States and C