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Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Bozeman, Mt., on Friday.

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A Trump campaign built to battle Biden is forced to recalibrate to Kamala Harris

Now that Vice President Harris is the Democratic presidential nominee, Donald Trump’s polling advantage is erased, his messaging is upended and a campaign focused against President Biden has to adapt.

August 10, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
Shamier Little, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabrielle Thomas and Alexis Holmes (L-R) of Team USA celebrate winning the Gold medal in the Women's 4 x 400m Relay Final on Saturday at the Stade de France.

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U.S. women, men seize a pair of golds in Olympic 4-by-400m relays

U.S. women cruised to victory in the 4 by 400 relay in Saint-Denis, France. American men, meanwhile, prevailed in a hard-fought relay at the same distance, beating Botswana.

August 10, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
Jordan Chiles, of the United States, competes during the women's artistic gymnastics individual floor finals Monday at Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Chiles won bronze after a last-minute inquiry found the judges had underscored her by a tenth of a point. On Saturday, an appeals court vacated the inquiry, saying it had come four seconds too late.

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  • Sports

U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles may have to return Olympic bronze medal after ruling

Chiles won bronze after a last-minute inquiry found the judges had underscored her by a tenth of a point. On Saturday, an appeals court vacated the inquiry, saying it had come four seconds too late.

August 10, 2024
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  • Becky Sullivan
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes a campaign announcement at a press conference in Philadelphia on Oct. 9, 2023.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: RFK Jr.'s Central Park 'Bear-B-Q' stunt

In an election season rife with surprises, you might add this week’s revelation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

August 10, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
Masai Russell, of the United States, wins the women's 100-meter hurdles final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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American Masai Russell wins Olympic gold in 100m hurdles by a 100th of a second

In a photo finish, Masai Russell of the U.S. captured a gold medal in the hundred-meter hurdle sprint, beating a French runner by 0.01 seconds.

August 10, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022.

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  • Obituaries

Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and Silicon Valley visionary, dies at 56

Over the past three decades, Susan Wojcicki had a knack for seeing a startup's potential. Her intuition helped shape the growth of YouTube and Google.

August 10, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
Mallory Swanson celebrates scoring against Brazil in the women's Gold Medal match between Brazil and United States of America Saturday at the Paris Olympics.

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U.S. women's soccer team wins 5th gold medal, defeats Brazil 1-0 at Paris Olympics

It's the first Olympic gold medal for the U.S. women's national team since 2012. The win against Brazil is another sign of the U.S. transformation after falling short in a string of major tournaments.

August 10, 2024
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  • Juana Summers
Vice President Harris speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at West Allis Central High School on July 23 in West Allis, Wis.

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  • Politics

How Harris’ vision for the economy is a twist on Biden’s

Vice President Harris is largely pitching the same economic plan she’s stood behind with President Biden. But it is also becoming clearer what her particular focus will be now that she is the nominee.

August 10, 2024
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  • Asma Khalid
Elias Abdi Abdullahi, an Ethiopian farmer, carries a bunch of uprooted weeds from the wheat field he farms with his wife. They're trying to increase their crop yields in an area often threatened by conflict and drought.

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  • Global Health

What is 'food resilience'? Ask these Ethiopian farmers facing conflict and drought

Many farmers in Ethiopia have lost valuable land for growing crops. They're learning to change the way they work to make the most out of what they have.

August 10, 2024
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  • Willem Marx
A dose of MDMA. The drug has been studied as a treatment for PTSD and FDA has declined to approve it so far, asking for further research.

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  • Health

FDA gives thumbs down to MDMA for now, demanding further research

The much-anticipated decision has rattled supporters of psychedelic therapies. The drugmaker says it will ask the agency to reconsider.

August 10, 2024
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  • Will Stone
John Kerry (center) stands with other military personnel in an unspecified location circa the 1960s. The details of Kerry's service during the Vietnam War, and his subsequent anti-war activism, became the focus of a veterans' group's smear campaign against him during his 2004 presidential campaign.

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  • Politics

A brief history of swift boating, from John Kerry to Tim Walz

Republicans' attacks on Tim Walz's military record mirror a 2004 smear campaign against John Kerry in some key ways. Here's how swift boating played out then — and what's different this time around.

August 10, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Michael Brown Sr., center, leads a unity march commemorating a decade after Michael Brown Jr.’s police killing on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, outside of Normandy High School in Normandy. Michael Brown Jr., his son, was killed by a Ferguson police officer in 2014 only days after graduating from high school.

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  • News

Photos: Family of Michael Brown Jr. marches on Ferguson 10 years later

Michael Brown Sr. said, “I’m not gonna never let the world forget about my son,” he told St. Louis Public Radio on Friday. “We wanted to show what he did in his life before the hashtag.”

August 10, 2024
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  • Brian Munoz
Chile's Esteban Bustos competes in the men's riding show jumping of the modern pentathlon during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Chateau de Versailles in Versailles on Friday. The equestrian portion of the Olympic modern pentathlon will end after these Games — replaced with ...

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  • Sports

The modern pentathlon, soon to break from military tradition, has last ride in Paris

This will be the final Summer Olympics with the current line-up of the five events that make up the modern pentathlon. Gone will be the horse-riding and in its place: a controversial obstacle course.

August 10, 2024
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  • James Bennett II
Nurses attend to patients in this historical photo of the children's ward inside Wheatley-Provident Hospital, a Black hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. It opened in 1918, but, like most Black hospitals, it closed following the federal campaign to desegregate hospitals in the 1960s.

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  • Health

Black hospitals vanished in the U.S. decades ago. Some communities have paid a price

Hundreds of Black hospitals in the U.S. closed after passage of the Civil Rights Act when health care became integrated. Black communities lost a source of employment and pride.

August 10, 2024
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  • Lauren Sausser
This is a locator map of Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

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  • Middle East

Israeli strike on Gaza school kills at least 80 people, Palestinian officials say

The Israeli military acknowledged the strike, claiming it hit a Hamas command center within the school. Hamas denied that.

August 10, 2024
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