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A tanker plane crash has killed a firefighting pilot in Oregon as Western wildfires spread 07/26/2024 09:23pm • Communities in the U.S. West and Canada were under siege from raging wildfires on Friday, as a fast-moving blaze sparked by lightning sent people fleeing on fire-ringed roads in rural Idaho and a human-caused inferno forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes in northern California. In eastern Oreg Singing, ceremonies and straw hats: Olympics opening ceremony in Tahiti centers Polynesian culture 07/26/2024 08:29pm • PAPARA, Tahiti (AP) ��� Tahitian dancers in palm-leaf skirts mingled with Olympic surfers, locals and tourists as the opening ceremony for the Summer Games commenced in French Polynesia on Friday morning, some 10,000 miles away from the main ceremony in Paris. ���The people of Tahiti, we are all enc Key Pakistani Islamist party begins sit-in to protest increase in electricity bills 07/26/2024 08:14pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Hundreds of supporters of a key Islamist party began a sit-in protest in the garrison city of Rawalpindi late Friday after authorities detained dozens to prevent them from holding the rally in Pakistan's neighboring capital, citing security reasons, officials said. The Jamaat-e-Is New York City turns to AI-powered scanners in push to keep guns out of the subway system 07/26/2024 08:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York City is turning to AI-powered scanners in a new bid to keep guns out of its subway system, but the pilot program launched Friday is already being met with skepticism from riders and the threat of a lawsuit from civil liberties advocates who say the searches are unconstitut Olympics opening ceremony saw no major reported issues, French official says 07/26/2024 07:05pm • PARIS (AP) ��� France's interior minister praised security forces after no major issues were reported Friday during the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Authorities had deployed a massive security operation in Paris to keep the event safe. The capital's streets were blocked off, with squadrons of Algerians honor victims of colonial-era French crackdown at Paris Olympics ceremony 07/26/2024 06:36pm • ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) ��� Algeria reminded France of a particularly dark chapter of its colonial past during an otherwise celebratory opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics on Friday. Algerian athletes brought red roses on their boat as they paraded for the event, and then tossed them into the rive Vegas man charged with threats to officials including judge, prosecutor in Trump hush money trial 07/26/2024 05:56pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� A Las Vegas man has been charged with threatening to injure and kill government officials in three states and the District of Columbia, including the New York judge and prosecutor who handled former President Donald Trump���s criminal hush money trial, according to federal officia Olympics opening ceremony latest: Celine Dion serenades Paris, and now the Games can begin 07/26/2024 05:49pm • PARIS (AP) ��� The 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony went off with only minor hitches after a rough start to the Summer Games. Following suspected acts of sabotage targeting France���s flagship high-speed rail network, a soggy but celebratory parade down the Seine River brought an official start Autopsy confirms Sonya Massey died from gunshot wound to head, as attorney calls shooting senseless 07/26/2024 05:27pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ��� Autopsy findings released Friday on Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman fatally shot in her Illinois home by a now-fired sheriff's deputy charged in her death, confirm that she died from a gunshot wound to the head. The report was released shortly before civil rights a Site of 3 killings during pivotal, bloody 1967 Detroit riot receives historic marker 07/26/2024 05:27pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three young Black men were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city's bloody 1967 race riot is receiving a historic marker. A dedication ceremony was held Friday in a park several miles north of downtown where the Alg Georgia wide receiver Rara Thomas suspended following arrest on cruelty to children, battery charges 07/26/2024 05:06pm • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) ��� Georgia wide receiver Rodarius ���Rara��� Thomas has been suspended indefinitely following his arrest on charges of cruelty to children and battery early Friday, adding to the team's recent legal woes. Athens-Clarke County jail records show Thomas was booked at 3:20 a.m. on felo 'He cared about being a good teammate': Vikings coach celebrates life of rookie Khyree Jackson 07/26/2024 04:55pm • Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O���Connell choked back tears during Friday's funeral service for Khyree Jackson at the First Baptist Church of Glenarden. O���Connell recalled a difficult conversation he had with the rookie cornerback several months ago, before Jackson died in a car crash in P Tennessee man convicted of inmate van escape, as allegations of sex crimes await court action 07/26/2024 04:44pm • GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� A jury on Friday found a Tennessee man guilty of escaping an inmate transport van but not guilty of trying to break out of jail, deciding the first of multiple trials that include criminal charges of raping children to create pornography and lawsuits accusing him of sexua DC apartment was target of 2 arson attacks in just over 24 hours 07/26/2024 04:31pm • A fire broke out at a D.C. apartment building for the second time in just over 24 hours on Friday morning. Authorities said the fires are the result of targeted arson attacks and a suspect has been taken into custody. An accelerant was thrown in an attack on a first floor apartment in the 2100 bl Nigeria women's basketball team denied entry to opening ceremony boat by federation, AP source says 07/26/2024 03:27pm • PARIS (AP) ��� The Nigeria women's basketball team wasn't allowed to board the delegation's boat for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, said a person familiar with the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on Friday condition of anonymity because the Nigeria delegation has not