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A Maryland judge has ruled a proposed ballot question in Baltimore that would pay new parents $1,000 when they have a child is unconstitutional. Media outlets report that Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge John Nugent made the ruling on Friday. Supporters of the proposal secured the necessary 10,000 signatures to bring the question to voters

AP National Writer PARIS (AP) — Three German swimmers became ill after competing in the open water races at the Paris Olympics, though it was not immediately clear if the long-polluted Seine River was responsible for their sickness. The swimmers were not identified in a statement released Saturday by the German Olympic Sports Confederation, though

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard (Philip Kim) took gold in the first Olympic men’s breaking tournament Saturday. “I never thought I’d be here in my life,” the 27-year-old said, wiping away tears. He spent the last few sleepless nights “tossing and turning” because he was “stressed out of my mind.” “I

Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — As law enforcement officers hung back outside Khloie Torres’ fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas, she begged for help in a series of 911 calls, whispering into the phone that there were “a lot” of bodies and telling the operator: “Please, I don’t want to die. My teacher is dead. Oh,

Associated Press Police in Ferguson, Missouri, say an officer was critically injured outside the city’s police station during protests on the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a pivotal moment in the national Black Lives Matter movement. Ferguson police chief Troy Doyle said Officer Travis Brown suffered a severe brain injury Friday

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The chocolate muffins from the bakery in the Olympic village where athletes stay have gone viral on social media. They’re made alongside bread and a selection of French pastries that athletes from across the world rushed to taste. Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen has been dubbed “muffin man” after he posted

Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A Sierra Leonean military court has convicted 24 soldiers of their roles in last year’s attempted coup. The soldiers were sentenced to lengthy prison terms, some for up to 120 years. They faced up to 88 counts on charges of murder, mutiny, communicating with the enemy and willful

AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The Olympics will always have Paris. Next up for the Summer Games: Los Angeles 2028. The baton will be handed from one third-time Olympic host city to another at the closing ceremony Sunday in Paris, and much will be different in four years’ time. New sports will make their

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s gold medal-winning boxer Oleksandr Khyzhniak gave a military salute to the crowd gathered to celebrate his return to the war-torn country from the Paris Olympics. Stepping out of the special Olympic Express train at Kyiv’s central railway station, Khyzhniak, 29, greeted fans, friends and family. The athlete is

AP National Writer PARIS (AP) — Traffic. What will you do about notorious gridlocked Los Angeles traffic? That’s the one burning question repeatedly posed to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as she prepares to receive the Olympic flag ahead of the 2028 Summer Games. “A no-car Games,” Bass said Saturday. Huh? Bass and Casey Wasserman,

Associated Press Watching climbing at the Paris Olympics makes it seem as if it’s a sport that would be completely out of the question for a weekend athlete. The speed, strength and dexterity with which the competitors scale the walls appear impossible to match.  Think again. With over 600 climbing gyms in the United States,

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A worker at a federal prison in California has died and investigators are examining whether he was exposed to fentanyl shortly before his death, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Marc Fischer, a mailroom supervisor at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atwater, California, died Friday after he

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Defense Department disagreement over how to bring to justice the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and two others has thrown the cases into disarray and surfaced tension between the desire of some victims’ families to see a final legal reckoning and the significant obstacles that may make

Associated Press Susan Wojcicki, a pioneering tech executive who helped shape Google and YouTube, has died, her husband said. She was 56. Wojcicki played a key role in Google’s creation and served nine years as YouTube’s CEO, stepping down last year to focus on her “family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about,” she said

Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan officials say clashes between two heavily armed militia groups in the country’s capital terrorized residents and killed about a dozen people, the latest bout of violence in the largely lawless North African nation. They said that the clashes, which involved heavy weapons, occurred Friday in Tripoli’s eastern neighborhood of

Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s newly-elected president has reappointed a U.S.-educated official as director of the country’s nuclear department. Iranian state TV reported Saturday that 67-year-old civil engineer Mohammad Eslami will continue his work as head of the country’s civilian nuclear program and serve as one of the country’s several vice presidents. The

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea is again flying balloons likely carrying trash toward the South, adding to a bizarre psychological warfare campaign amid growing tensions between the war-divided rivals. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Saturday that the winds could carry the balloons to regions north

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — From the Australian b-girl with the meme-worthy “kangaroo” dance move to the silver-medal winning Lithuanian in a durag, breaking’s Olympic debut had a few moments that raised questions from viewers about whether the essence of the hip-hop art form was captured at the Paris Games. Rachael Gunn, or “b-girl Raygun,”