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The United States' Amarilees Bolorin, left, takes a selfie with a friend in front of the Eiffel Tower ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Kauli Vaast, of France, falls off a wave on a training day ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics surfing competition Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Teahupo'o, Tahiti. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A police vehicle is seen overturned following a heavy rain in Shinjo, Yamagata prefecture, northern Japan Friday, July 26, 2024. Heavy rain hit northern Japan Thursday, triggering floods and landslides, disrupting transportation systems and forcing hundreds of residents to take shelter at safer grounds. (Kyodo News via AP)
Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, sixth from left, poses for photos with ASEAN ministers and delegates before the ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference with Japan at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Vientiane, Laos, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
A destroyed children's playhouse rests behind the heavily damaged homes owned by landlord and owner Richard Secor, on Henry Street in South Rome, N.Y., Tuesday, July 23, 2024, following an EF2 tornado that touched down in the population center one week earlier. Residents are vowing to rebuild. But some of the damage was so severe that the path forward is uncertain for many in this old manufacturing city, where people are more accustomed to digging out from snowstorms than from piles of rubble. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
FILE - A power shovel is used on Feb. 21, 2011 to dig the site of a former medical school in Tokyo linked to Unit 731, a germ and biological warfare outfit during the war. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)
Firefighter Christian Moorhouse jumps over a fence while battling the Park Fire in the Cohasset community of Butte County, Calif., on Thursday, July 25, 2024. His crew was able to keep flames from reaching the mobile home they were protecting. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
A Muslim man walks past a wall pasted with election propaganda of the main opposition candidate in the upcoming presidential election in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Ukrainian Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Police are seen during the night of July 25–26, 1967, at the three-story annex of the Algiers Motel in Detroit. 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. (Detroit News via AP)
This image provided by the U.S. Department of State shows Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another infamous cartel leader, were arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday, July 25, 2024. (U.S. Department of State via AP)
President Nicolas Maduro waves a Venezuelan flag during his closing election campaign rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, July 25, 2024. Maduro is seeking re-election for a third term in the July 28 vote. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Palestinian Child Siwar Abdel-Hadi, 2, wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Siwar Abdel-Hadi is the sole survivor in her family after an Israeli airstrike on her home in central Gaza killed her parents and three siblings. She becomes one of thousands of children orphaned in Israel's campaign in Gaza against Hamas. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
FILE - President Donald Trump, right, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office, Sept. 15, 2020, at the White House in Washington. Trump is due to talk face-to-face with Netanyahu for the first time in nearly four years. The meeting Friday, July 26, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago will mend a break that has lasted since 2021. Trump at the time blasted Netanyahu for being one of the first leaders to congratulate President Joe Biden for his election victory. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Vice President Kamala Harris, right, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
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OLY-FRANCE-SECURITY-TRAINS — The French national rail company SNCF says high-speed lines have been hit by several “malicious acts” that heavily disrupted traffic on the day of the high-risk Olympics opening ceremony. Lines in the west, north and east of France were affected. Government officials denounced the incidents hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, which are happening around France, though there was no immediate sign of a link to the Games. Many French families are also heading on summer vacation Friday. National police said authorities are investigating. French media reported a big fire on a busy western route. By Thomas Adamson and Jeffrey Schaeffer. SENT: 880 words, photos, video, audio.
US--ELECTION 2024-HARRIS-OBAMA ENDORSEMENT — Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris in her White House bid, giving the vice president the expected but still crucial backing of the nation’s two most popular Democrats. The endorsement was announced Friday morning in a video showing Harris accepting a joint phone call from the former first couple. SENT: 610 words, photo. WITH: HARRIS DEBATE — Harris said she’s ready to debate Donald Trump and accused him of “backpedaling” from a previous agreement for a debate hosted by ABC News. Trump said he would prefer to shift the event to Fox News, but would be open to holding two debates. SENT: 240 words.
HARRIS-GAZA POLITICS — Just days after launching her White House campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris attempted to bridge divides within the Democratic Party over the war in Gaza, emphasizing Israel’s right to defend itself while also focusing on alleviating Palestinian suffering. Her remarks were a delicate balancing act. By Chris Megerian. SENT: 820 words, photos, video. WITH: BIDEN-HARRIS-NETANYAHU — Harris says she urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a cease-fire deal soon with Hamas so dozens of hostages held in Gaza since the Oct. 7 attack can return home. SENT: 1,230 words, photos, video, audio;
NETANYAHU-TRUMP — Donald Trump is due to talk face-to-face with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time in nearly four years. For Trump, the meeting could help sharpen efforts by Republicans to portray themselves as the party most loyal to Israel. By Ellen Knickmeyer. SENT: 730 words, photo. Time of meeting uncertain.
ISRAEL PALESTINIANS ORPHANED GIRL — Two-year-old Siwar Abdel-Hadi is the lone survivor in her family after an Israeli airstrike on her home in central Gaza killed her parents and three siblings. Siwar was left with burns on her face, collapsed lungs and shrapnel wounds. She joins the ranks of thousands of orphans left by Israel’s campaign of bombardment and offensives. Like other families, Siwar’s extended relatives are now trying to figure out how to raise her, as they struggle to get by with their own children amid the deprivations of the war. By Wafaa Shurafa. SENT: 680 words, photos, video.
MEXICO-SINALOA-CARTEL — The U.S. Justice Department says Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another infamous cartel leader, have been arrested by authorities in Texas. Zambada has been a leader of the powerful cartel for decades alongside Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. His is known for running the cartel’s smuggling operations while keeping a lower profile. A Mexican federal official told The Associated Press that Zambada and Guzmán López arrived on a private plane and turned themselves in to U.S. authorities. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the matter. By Alanna Durkin Richer, Maria Verza and Christopher Sherman. SENT: 840 words, photo, audio.
VENEZUELA ELECTION EXPLAINER — Venezuelans on Sunday will decide whether to give President Nicolas Maduro a third six-year term or to allow the opposition a chance to deliver on their promise to undo the policies that caused economic collapse and forced millions to emigrate. Maduro is being challenged by nine candidates. Maduro has fended off previous challenges by barring rivals from elections and painting them as out-of-touch elitists in league with foreign powers. But this time, he is allowing the coalition of main opposition parties to participate with former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia as its candidate. By Regina Garcia Cano. SENT: 990 words, photos. WITH: VENEZUELA-ELECTION — Venezuela’s presidential candidates have closed their campaigns ahead of Sunday’s vote with demonstrations attended by thousands. SENT: 310 words, photos.
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OLY-PARIS-OPENING-CEREMONY — The Paris Olympics are getting off to a rougher than hoped-for start. Suspected acts of sabotage targeted France’s flagship high-speed rail network and cloudy skies with light drizzle are hanging over the French capital ahead of its promised spectacular opening ceremony on Friday evening. Dozens of heads of state and government are in town for the Olympic opening and a global audience is tuning in. SENT: 820 words, photos. WITH: OLY--OPENING CEREMONY-THE LATEST; OPENING-CEREMONY-GUIDE — How to watch the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony.. (Both sent.)
OLY-PARIS-TOURISM — Small business owners in Paris expected a boon in visitors once the Olympics arrived. Instead, some, particularly in heavily touristed areas in central Paris, say they’re experiencing a bust because of major security restrictions on movement in the French capital. SENT: 1,150 words, photos.
OLY-PARIS-UKRAINIAN-ATHLETES — For Ukrainian competitors, joy goes hand in hand with sorrow. Athletes are striving to enjoy the dream of competing at one of the world’s most prestigious sports events while carrying the burden of the war back home. SENT: 690 words, photos.
OLY-SRF-FORECASTING-EXPLAINER — The search for the perfect wave has been a part of surfing culture for decades. This year, it determines the days that surfers competing in the Paris Olympics in Tahiti will paddle into the ocean. Here’s a look at how surf forecasting is done. SENT: 500 words, photos, video.
OLY-TEN-OSAKA-IS-BACK — Naomi Osaka is back on the tennis tour, back at a Summer Olympics and back at Roland Garros. The sport’s Paris Games competition begins Saturday on the same clay courts that host the French Open. SENT: 1,010 words, photos.
OLY-TTN-CHILE-OLDEST-CHILEAN-OLYMPIAN — 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. SENT: 520 words, photos.
OLY-PARIS-MIGRANT-CAMP — Hundreds of people sleeping on the streets of Paris climbed aboard buses surrounded by armed police on Thursday, the latest group of migrants and homeless people to be driven out of the city ahead of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. SENT: 1,100 words, photos, video.
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US-DETROIT RIOT MOTEL HISTORIC MARKER — 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 July 1967 race riot is receiving a historic marker. A dedication ceremony is scheduled Friday at a lot several miles north of downtown where the Algiers Motel once stood. As parts of Detroit burned in one of the bloodiest race riots in U.S. history, police and members of the National Guard raided the Algiers and its adjacent Manor House after reports of gunfire in the area. The bodies of Aubrey Pollard, Carl Cooper and Fred Temple later were found. No one ever has been convicted in their deaths. By Corey Williams. SENT: 530 words, photos.
US-BIOMASS BOOM-ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — Wood pellet production has skyrocketed across the U.S. South to feed the European Union’s push for renewable energy to replace fossil fuels. But many people who live near manufacturing plants believe they make air dustier and residents sicker. President Biden’s landmark law to combat climate change has made billions available for these facilities. The administration also is weighing tax credits for burning pellets. Environmentalists want to end these incentives, saying it’s a misguided attempt to curb emissions that pollute communities of color and warm the atmosphere. Supporters say wood pellets are an innovative long-term solution to the climate crisis that supports forest owners. By James Pollard, Julie Watson and Stephen Smith. SENT: 1,280 words, photos, video.
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RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR-PRESIDENTIAL-ADVISER — Signing an agreement with Russia to stop the war with Ukraine would amount to signing a deal with the devil, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as pressure mounts on the country to seek an end to more than two years of fighting. SENT: 760 words, photos. WITH: RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR — Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has called on Hong Kong to prevent Russia and Russian businesses from using the region to circumvent sanctions. SENT: 510 words, photos.
NATO-EUROPE’S-QUANDARY — With Donald Trump’s “America First” rhetoric drawing cheers from fervent supporters, the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is once again on the agenda. But this time, European leaders acknowledge the alliance must evolve to meet the challenges of the 21st century and say they are ready to shoulder more responsibility for their own defense. SENT: 1,180 words, photos.
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ALASKA-RESCUED-WALRUS-CALF — A walrus calf seemingly left behind by her herd near Alaska’s northernmost city is alert and “sassy” as she receives care at a nonprofit wildlife response center hundreds of miles away following her recent rescue, a center spokesperson said Thursday. SENT: 330 words, photos.
US-WILDFIRES — A 42-year-old man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of starting a wildfire that has become California’s largest this year. SENT: 870 words, photos, video, audio.
JAPAN-WWII-BONES — Bones dug up from a wartime Army Medical School site in Tokyo decades ago and linked to victims of human experiments by Unit 731, Japan’s germ and biological warfare outfit, remain in a repository still waiting to find their home. SENT: 930 words, photos.
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ECONOMY-BIDEN-HARRIS — A key question is looming for Vice President Kamala Harris as she edges closer to gaining the Democratic presidential nomination: Can she turn the Biden-Harris economic record into a political advantage in a way that President Joe Biden failed to do? SENT: 1,350 words, photo.
ELECTION 2024-VANCE-NAME — When it comes to Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s name, it’s complicated. Over the course of his 39 years, Vance’s first, middle and last names have all been altered in one way or another. SENT: 850 words, photos.
ELECTION 2024-DECISION NOTES-ARIZONA — Tuesday’s Arizona primaries will set the stage for competitive contests that could determine control of the closely divided U.S. Senate, U.S. House and both chambers of the state legislature. UPCOMING: 1,270 words, photo by 7:30 a.m.
CHINA-US-RUSSIA-MILITARY-PLANES — Russian and Chinese bombers flew together for the first time in international airspace off the coast of Alaska, in a new show of expanding military cooperation that U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday raises concerns. SENT: 710 words, photos, video, audio.
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TORNADO-REBUILDING ROME — A tornado that touched down in the small, upstate New York city of Rome ripped roofs from houses, reduced brick buildings to rubble and toppled steeples from two historic churches. Residents are vowing to move on and rebuild. SENT: 840 words, photos, video.
CHURCH-ABUSE-LAWSUITS — Sixty people allege in new lawsuits filed in Missouri that they were abused as children by dozens of Catholic priests, nuns and others, and the man who now leads the Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska, is among the accused. SENT: 440 words.
CALIFORNIA-UBER-LYFT-DRIVERS — The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that app-based ride-hailing and delivery services like Uber and Lyft can continue treating their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. SENT: 560 words, photos.
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ETHIOPIA-DEADLY MUDSLIDES — Search teams were still digging at the site of deadly mudslides in southern Ethiopia on Friday as the death toll rose to 257 after heavy rain triggered deadly slides on Sunday and Monday. SENT: 250 words, photos.
PAPUA-NEW-GUINEA-VIOLENCE — At least 26 people were reportedly killed by a gang in three remote villages in Papua New Guinea’s north, United Nations and police officials say. SENT: 630 words, photos.
INDIA-CHINA-BORDER — India and China have agreed to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops stationed along their disputed border in a long-running standoff, India’s government said. SENT: 410 words, photo.
LAOS-ASEAN — Top diplomats from Southeast Asia met Friday morning in Vientiane with China’s Foreign Minister for talks that come as friction continues to escalate over Beijing’s growing effort to press its sweeping maritime claims in the South China Sea. SENT: 950 words, photos. WITH: ASEAN-US-BLINKEN — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make the case for the Biden administration’s expanded commitment to Asia and the Indo-Pacific region as he visits Laos, Vietnam, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and Mongolia this week and next. SENT: 790 words, photos.
VIETNAM-STATE-FUNERAL — Thousands of mourners gathered in Hanoi on Friday for the second day of the funeral of the man who dominated Vietnamese politics for over a decade, Communist Party general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. SENT: 650 words, photos.
PHILIPPINES-OIL-TANKER-SINKS — There is no indication that a big cargo of industrial fuel oil stored in a tanker that sank in stormy weather in Manila Bay has started to leak, the Philippine coast guard said Friday, and plans are being firmed up to try to siphon off the highly toxic shipment to prevent a major spill that could reach the bustling capital. SENT: 550 words.
JAPAN-HEAVY-RAIN — Heavy rain in the past week has triggered floods and landslides in Japan, disrupting transportation and forcing residents to take shelter on safer ground. Four people were missing Friday, including two police officers. SENT: 280 words, photos, video.
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SAGAFTRA-INTERACTIVE-STRIKE — Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence protections. SENT: 480 words, photo.
COMIC-CON-DEADPOOL-AND-WOLVERINE — “Deadpool & Wolverine” has swept through Comic-Con, with its hordes of Marvel fans, with a surprise screening and the film’s stars and thousands of fans. SENT: 630 words, photos.
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT-WEINSTEIN — Former film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been transferred from a New York City jail to a hospital to undergo treatment for a variety of health problems including COVID-19 and pneumonia in both lungs, his representatives said Thursday. SENT: 300 words, photos.
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SCI-BOEING-ASTRONAUT-LAUNCH — Already more than a month late getting back, two NASA astronauts will remain at the International Space Station until engineers finish working on problems plaguing their Boeing capsule, officials say. SENT: 420 words, photos, video, audio.
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Travelers wait as police officers patrol inside the Gare du Nord train station at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024, in Paris, France. Hours away from the grand opening ceremony of the Olympics, high-speed rail traffic to the French capital was severely disrupted on Friday by what officials described as "criminal actions" and sabotage. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
The United States' Amarilees Bolorin, left, takes a selfie with a friend in front of the Eiffel Tower ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Kauli Vaast, of France, falls off a wave on a training day ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics surfing competition Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Teahupo'o, Tahiti. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A police vehicle is seen overturned following a heavy rain in Shinjo, Yamagata prefecture, northern Japan Friday, July 26, 2024. Heavy rain hit northern Japan Thursday, triggering floods and landslides, disrupting transportation systems and forcing hundreds of residents to take shelter at safer grounds. (Kyodo News via AP)
Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, sixth from left, poses for photos with ASEAN ministers and delegates before the ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference with Japan at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Vientiane, Laos, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
A destroyed children's playhouse rests behind the heavily damaged homes owned by landlord and owner Richard Secor, on Henry Street in South Rome, N.Y., Tuesday, July 23, 2024, following an EF2 tornado that touched down in the population center one week earlier. Residents are vowing to rebuild. But some of the damage was so severe that the path forward is uncertain for many in this old manufacturing city, where people are more accustomed to digging out from snowstorms than from piles of rubble. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
FILE - A power shovel is used on Feb. 21, 2011 to dig the site of a former medical school in Tokyo linked to Unit 731, a germ and biological warfare outfit during the war. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)
Firefighter Christian Moorhouse jumps over a fence while battling the Park Fire in the Cohasset community of Butte County, Calif., on Thursday, July 25, 2024. His crew was able to keep flames from reaching the mobile home they were protecting. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
A Muslim man walks past a wall pasted with election propaganda of the main opposition candidate in the upcoming presidential election in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Ukrainian Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Police are seen during the night of July 25–26, 1967, at the three-story annex of the Algiers Motel in Detroit. 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. (Detroit News via AP)
This image provided by the U.S. Department of State shows Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another infamous cartel leader, were arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday, July 25, 2024. (U.S. Department of State via AP)
President Nicolas Maduro waves a Venezuelan flag during his closing election campaign rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, July 25, 2024. Maduro is seeking re-election for a third term in the July 28 vote. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Palestinian Child Siwar Abdel-Hadi, 2, wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Siwar Abdel-Hadi is the sole survivor in her family after an Israeli airstrike on her home in central Gaza killed her parents and three siblings. She becomes one of thousands of children orphaned in Israel's campaign in Gaza against Hamas. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
FILE - President Donald Trump, right, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office, Sept. 15, 2020, at the White House in Washington. Trump is due to talk face-to-face with Netanyahu for the first time in nearly four years. The meeting Friday, July 26, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago will mend a break that has lasted since 2021. Trump at the time blasted Netanyahu for being one of the first leaders to congratulate President Joe Biden for his election victory. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Vice President Kamala Harris, right, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
