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Claressa Shields moving up 2 weight classes to challenge heavyweight champ Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse 06/04/2024 12:51pm • DETROIT (AP) — Two-time Olympic gold medalist Claressa Shields announced Tuesday she is moving up two weight classes to challenge women's WBC heavyweight champion Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse on July 27. Shields (14-0, 2 KOs) and Lepage-Joanisse (7-1, 2 KOs) of Quebec will headline the boxing card at L Many Americans are still shying away from EVs despite Biden's push, an AP-NORC/EPIC poll finds 06/04/2024 12:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans still aren’t sold on going electric for their next car purchase. High prices and a lack of easy-to-find charging stations are major sticking points, a new poll shows. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say they would be at least somewhat likely to buy an EV the next time Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky isn't slowing down at age 35. And the Stanley Cup Final awaits 06/04/2024 11:47am • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Sergei Bobrovsky baffles his own teammates at times. Florida's starting goaltender has his own schedule and regimen — slowing gliding across the entirety of the ice to begin his process of getting ready in the morning, an extremely strict diet and some moves in the w Paris Olympics: What to know and who to watch during the judo competition 06/04/2024 10:00am • A roadmap to follow for the men's and women's judo tournaments at the Paris Olympics: Athletes to Watch —Teddy Riner, France: The world's most famous active judoka attempts to cap his incredible career with a record-tying third individual Olympic gold medal in front of his home fans. Now 35, Riner Belmont Odds 06/04/2024 02:03am • Trainers (by post position): 1. D. Wayne Lukas; 2. Bill Mott; 3. Ken McPeek; 4. Mike Maker; 5. Todd Pletcher; 6. Danny Gargan; 7. Todd Pletcher; 8. Whit Beckman; 9. Chad Brown; 10. Todd Pletcher. Owners (by post position): 1. MyRaceHorse; 2. Bushnell, Emily and Waldman, Ric; 3. Gasaway, Lance, 4 G R Bregman and Diaz homer in the 8th to lift the Astros to a 7-4 win over the Cardinals 06/04/2024 12:09am • HOUSTON (AP) — Alex Bregman and Yainer Diaz homered in the eighth inning, helping the Houston Astros top the St. Louis Cardinals 7-4 on Monday night. “It was great,” Bregman said. “It was a full team effort. For everybody to play a big part in that game was huge for our offense.” Bregman t She's the world's most expensive cow, and part of Brazil's plan to put beef on everyone's plate 06/04/2024 12:01am • UBERABA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil has hundreds of millions of cows, but one in particular is extraordinary. Her massive, snow-white body is watched over by security cameras, a veterinarian and an armed guard. Worth $4 million, Viatina-19 FIV Mara Movéis is the most expensive cow ever sold at auction, 7 Best Vanguard Funds to Buy and Hold 06/03/2024 08:00pm • Vanguard's lineup currently includes a total of 266 mutual funds and 86 exchange-traded funds (ETFs), most of which boast low costs and minimum required investments. "Vanguard funds as well as other low-cost investment options are an efficient way for investors to gain exposure to both the overall m Montgomery County families protest plans to shut down virtual learning program 06/03/2024 04:30pm • Dozens of parents and kids staged a sit-in outside Montgomery County Public Schools' Board of Education headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, on Monday to demand the school system continue its virtual learning program. The school system announced last week that it would be shutting the Montgom Unusual mix of possible candidates line up for Chicago's first school board elections this fall 06/03/2024 04:15pm • CHICAGO (AP) — A Grammy-winning rapper, progressive activists and a leader of an afterschool squash program are part of the eclectic mix of possible candidates lining up for Chicago’s first school board elections this fall. America's third-largest city has long been an outlier with a mayor-appo Remembering with sadness, the British D-Day veterans recall the war they saw and knew 06/03/2024 03:29pm • PORTSMOUTH, England (AP) — The British D-Day veterans who gathered Monday to kick off events marking the 80th anniversary of the landings in Northern France didn’t need a calendar to remember June 6, 1944. The events of that day remain etched on their minds, unforgettable in their horror, inexpl This $39 billion industry is Northern Virginia’s silent economic driver 06/03/2024 11:54am • One of Northern Virginia’s largest economic drivers is often overlooked: the residential real estate market. The Northern Virginia Association of Realtors and the George Mason University Center for Regional Analysis have recently released a report, “The Economic Contributions of the Northern Book Review: From Crichton and Patterson, ‘Eruption’ is poised to be seismic publishing event 06/03/2024 11:16am • You know you’ve got some juice in the publishing world when you get top billing on a book nearly 16 years after your death. “Eruption” is the completion of a partial manuscript found by the late Michael Crichton’s wife, Sherri, and finished by James Patterson. That pedigree is sure to make i Simone Biles cruises to 9th national title and gives Olympic champ Sunisa Lee a boost along the way 06/03/2024 08:03am • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — There used to be a time when Simone Biles would find “beauty in the blindness” ahead of the Olympics, reveling in not knowing what she didn't know. That was eight years ago. Back when she was still just a teenager. Still kind of “ditzy.” Those days are long gone. T Joey Meneses, Jake Irvin help Nationals end Guardians' nine-game home winning streak, 5-2 06/03/2024 04:33am • CLEVELAND (AP) — Joey Meneses’ two-run double keyed a four-run second and Jake Irvin pitched six strong innings to lead the Washington Nationals to a 5-2 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday. Meneses’ double to deep center field opened the scoring against Carlos Carrasco. Ildemaro