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US men's soccer team knows its Olympic future is likely on the line against New Zealand 07/26/2024 03:07pm • MARSEILLE, France (AP) — The United States men’s soccer team earned respect despite losing to France 3-0 in its opening game at the Paris Olympics. Now it needs points. The U.S. faces New Zealand in Marseille on Saturday knowing another loss likely would end its chance of advancing to the quarte Beshear gets a warm embrace in flood-stricken parts of Kentucky where he and Trump are both popular 07/26/2024 02:43pm • WAYLAND, Ky. (AP) — Kitty Holbrook gave Gov. Andy Beshear a hug before celebrating another milestone Friday in eastern Kentucky's recovery from historic flooding. The retired teacher thought it might be the last time she sees the rising Democratic star for some time if he's asked to join Vice Pres Federal control board sues Puerto Rico's governor over net metering law 07/26/2024 02:26pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances filed a lawsuit Friday challenging amendments to the island’s net metering law, which compensates solar-equipped households for their contributions to the grid, triggering a backlash. The lawsuit filed again 6 South Korea swimmers leave Olympic village for a hotel closer to their venue, report says 07/26/2024 02:11pm • PARIS (AP) — Six South Korea swimmers have left the Olympic village to move to a hotel closer to their venue, the Korea Times reported Friday. Korea Swimming Federation president Chong Chang-hoon cited concerns over the lengthy commute to La Defense Arena as the reason for the change for the membe Three men — including ex-Marines — sentenced for involvement in plot to destroy power grid 07/26/2024 01:18pm • Three men with connections to white supremacist groups were sentenced Thursday in federal court after plotting to destroy a power grid in the northwestern United States, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Paul James Kryscuk, 38; Liam Collins, 25; and Justin Wade Hermanson, 25, were all sen Italy plans to return an ambassador to Syria to reflect new diplomatic developments, minister says 07/26/2024 12:55pm • ROME (AP) — Italy plans to send an ambassador back to Syria after a decade-long absence, the country’s foreign minister said, in a diplomatic move that could spark divisions among European Union allies. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, speaking in front of relevant parliamentary committees Thurs UK drops plans to challenge ICC arrest warrant request against Benjamin Netanyahu 07/26/2024 12:54pm • LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office said Friday that the U.K. will not intervene in the International Criminal Court’s request for an arrest warrant against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The announcement is reversal of plans announced by former Prime Minist Venezuela opposition leader provides hope for many, even though she isn't on the presidential ballot 07/26/2024 12:52pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Maria Corina Machado has hiked overpasses, walked highways, ridden motorcycles, sought shelter in supporters' homes and seen her closest collaborators detained and persecuted. She has held the calloused hands of crying men, worn dozens of gifted rosaries and listened to t Alpine principal Bruno Famin to step down. F1 team may drop homemade Renault engine in 2026 07/26/2024 12:38pm • SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (AP) — Struggling Formula 1 team Alpine is switching team principals midseason and may also ditch its homemade Renault engines in 2026. Alpine team principal Bruno Famin will be out of his post “by the end of August,” with his replacement announced “in due course," Playing with a franchise tag, WR Tee Higgins wants one more shot at the Super Bowl with the Bengals 07/26/2024 12:29pm • CINCINNATI (AP) — If Tee Higgins does have just one more season with the Cincinnati Bengals, he wants to make the most of it. The 25-year-old receiver said he thought it better to sign his franchise tender, play well for all to see and try one more time to win a Super Bowl with the team that draft Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law restricting both medical care for transgender youth and abortion 07/26/2024 12:22pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska law that combined abortion restrictions with another measure to limit gender-affirming health care for minors does not violate a state constitutional amendment requiring bills to stick to a single subject, a majority of the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday. The sta Kevin Spacey's waterfront Baltimore condo sold at auction after foreclosure 07/26/2024 12:01pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Kevin Spacey’s $5.6 million waterfront condominium in Baltimore has been sold at auction amid the disgraced actor's financial struggles following a slew of sexual misconduct allegations. Last summer, a London jury acquitted Spacey on sexual assault charges stemming from allegati Federal grand jury charges short seller Andrew Left in $16M stock manipulation scheme 07/26/2024 11:12am • A federal grand jury in California has charged short seller Andrew Left with multiple counts of securities fraud for a $16 million stock market manipulation scheme. The Department of Justice said in a statement on Friday that Left, who was a securities analyst, trader, and guest commentator on telev Chinese-Chilean table tennis player makes Olympics debut at age 58 in the Paris Games 07/26/2024 11:07am • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Table tennis player Zeng Zhiying left China in 1989, the same year of the Tiananmen Square massacre, to teach the sport in northern Chile. Fast-forward 35 years, she will debut in the Olympic Games at age 58 under the name she adopted in the South American nation: Tania. Tan Hungary will seek solution to Ukraine oil transit impasse by September, minister says 07/26/2024 10:26am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary will seek to resolve a dispute with Ukraine over the transfer of Russian oil by September to avoid a potential energy crisis, an aid to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday, Orbán’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyás, alleged that Kyiv was “blac