Sunisa Lee, the Tokyo Olympics champion, earns bronze despite spending much of the last 15 months dealing with multiple kidney diseases that left her return to the Games very much in doubt.
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Evan Gershkovich one of 3 newly freed Americans back on U.S. soil
The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist with dual U.S.-Russia citizenship.
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Hezbollah leader says war with Israel has entered ‘new phase’ after killings of top militant figures
International officials have been scrambling to avert a cycle of retaliation before it spirals into a greater war.
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Harris calls Trump’s false claims about race ‘the same old show’ of divisiveness and disrespect
Vice President Kamala Harris says former President Donald Trump’s false assertions about her race were the ‘same old show.’
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Accused mastermind of al-Qaida’s 9/11 attacks agrees to plead guilty
Pentagon officials declined to immediately release the full terms of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s plea bargain.
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UN report says Palestinians detained by Israeli authorities since Oct. 7 faced torture, mistreatment
The report said Israel’s prison service held more than 9,400 ‘security detainees’ as of the end of June, and some have been held in secret without access to lawyers or respect for their legal rights.
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Giuliani agrees to deal ending his bankruptcy case, pay creditors’ financial adviser $400,000
Creditors include former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss, who won a $148 million defamation judgment against Giuliani for his false ballot fraud claims against them related to the 2020 election.
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McDonald’s says $5 meal is starting to reverse traffic slump
The chain’s U.S. President said on an earnings call Monday that the number of $5 meal deals sold was above expectations.
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United Auto Workers endorses Harris, giving her blue-collar firepower in industrial states
UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement that the union’s ‘job in this year’s election was to defeat Trump.
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U.S. oil and gas must cut methane 80% to meet industry targets, new data shows
On average, data collected from the Environmental Defense Fund shows around 1.6% of gross gas production is released as methane into the atmosphere.