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Simone Biles is heading back to the Olympics and the spotlight that comes with it.
The gymnastics superstar earned a third trip to her sport’s biggest stage by cruising to victory at the US Olympic trials on Sunday night, posting a two-day all-around total of 117.225 to clinch the lone automatic spot on the five-woman team.
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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone lowered her world record once again, running the 400m hurdles in 50.65 seconds on Sunday at the US Olympic trials.
In only her fourth 400m hurdles race of the season, the 24-year-old defending Olympic champion cleared all 10 barriers with ease, then went on a dead sprint to the line to break the record for the fifth time. Four of those marks have now come on the track at University of Oregon’s Hayward Field.
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The far-right National Rally leaped into a strong lead in France's first round of legislative elections, pollers projected, bringing the party closer to being able to form a government in round two.
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‘Extremely dangerous’ storm approaches south-east Caribbean, where officials urge people to take shelter
Hurricane Beryl strengthened into what experts called an “extremely dangerous” category 4 storm as it approaches the south-east Caribbean, which began shutting down Sunday amid urgent pleas from government officials for people to take shelter.
Beryl had strengthened into a category 3 hurricane on Sunday morning, becoming the first major hurricane east of the Lesser Antilles on record for June, according to Philip Klotzbach, Colorado State University hurricane researcher.
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A 13-year-old was killed Friday in Utica after police stopped two youths in connection with armed robbery investigation
Video released late Saturday shows an officer in upstate New York fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy who had been tackled to the ground after he ran from police and pointed a replica handgun at them.
The teen was killed late Friday in Utica after officers in the city about 240 miles (400km) north-west of Manhattan stopped two youths a little after 10pm in connection with an armed robbery investigation, police said.
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It's unclear whether the new law that requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in Louisiana classrooms has any teeth to enforce the requirement and penalize those who refuse to comply.
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In what she calls "Books Not Bans," Becka Robbins sends titles to groups that want them in the face of a movement by conservative advocacy groups and lawmakers to ban them from schools and libraries.
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The area is the site of frequent strandings, which experts believe is due in part to its hook-like shape and extreme tidal fluctuations. Ten dolphins died in a mass stranding on Friday.
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Women should be at centre of climate policies as they face increased rates of violence and homelessness after disasters, researchers say
One woman lived in fear when her husband started drunkenly punching his car and throwing glass bottles at her.
Another recognised her partner’s worsening violence when her young son abruptly told a stranger: “My dad is really mean to my mum.”
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One of the first Puerto Rican stars in the majors but limited by knee issues, he became Boston’s first designated hitter and credits his time as a DH for getting him enshrined in the Hall of Fame.
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Interior minister describes attack as terrorist and says Belgrade police officer is in hospital after being shot in neck
An attacker with a crossbow wounded a police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade before being shot dead, Serbia’s interior ministry said.
The interior minister, Ivica Dačić, described the incident as a terrorist attack against Serbia.
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Problems with the capsule's propulsion system, used to maneuver the spacecraft, prompted NASA and Boeing to delay the flight home several times while they analyzed the trouble.
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A judge denied a request to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin on complaints that key evidence was damaged by the FBI during forensic testing.
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Martin Mull came to national fame with a recurring role on the Norman Lear-created satirical soap opera “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” and the starring role in its spinoff, “Fernwood Tonight."
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Meta’s claims that social media doesn’t harm children ‘can’t be taken seriously’, inquiry told
Tech executives need to “fess up” to the damage their platforms have caused, the prime minister says, while taking aim at the “arrogant” and “out of touch” social media companies.
Anthony Albanese’s comments come after Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, told a parliamentary inquiry in Canberra it didn’t think social media had harmed children.
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Mull, known for his droll and esoteric comedy, dies after ‘valiant fight against a long illness’, says daughter
Martin Mull, whose droll, esoteric comedy and acting made him a hip sensation in the 1970s and later a beloved guest star on sitcoms including Roseanne and Arrested Development, has died, his daughter said Friday. He was 80 years old.
Mull’s daughter, TV writer and comic artist Maggie Mull, said her father died at home on Thursday after “a valiant fight against a long illness”.
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The lawsuit covered 2.4 million residential subscribers and 48,000 businesses in the United States who paid for the package of out-of-market games from the 2011 through 2022 seasons on DirecTV.
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Pete Arredondo and Adrian Gonzales first officers to face charges in one of deadliest US school shootings, reports say
The former Uvalde schools police chief and another former officer have been indicted over their role in the slow police response to the 2022 massacre at a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead, according to multiple reports on Thursday.
The Uvalde Leader-News and the San Antonio Express-News reported that Pete Arredondo, the former schools police chief, and Adrian Gonzales, a former officer, were indicted by a grand jury on multiple counts of felony child endangerment and abandonment. The Leader-News reported that Christina Mitchell, the local district attorney, confirmed the indictment.
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LeBron James and his son Bronny James will become the first-ever father-son duo to share the floor for the same NBA team. It was the dream that LeBron James first floated a few years ago, the notion of playing in the NBA alongside one of his sons.
And it’s now a step closer to reality.
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