CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Behind a church surrounded by rolling prairie on the outskirts of this Colorado town sits a donated RV that Joe Ridenour called home for a year after he lost his job during the pandemic. Being able to live in the RV, he said, allowed him to...
Coco Gauff Chosen as US Female Flag Bearer at Olympic Opening Ceremony
PARIS — Tennis star Coco Gauff will join LeBron James as a flag bearer for the U.S. Olympic team at Friday's opening ceremony. Gauff, the reigning U.S. Open champion, is set to make her Olympic debut at the Paris Games and will be the first tennis athlete to carry the...
WNBA Earns Landmark 11-Year Media Deal With Disney, Amazon Prime, NBC
More than 100 WNBA regular-season games will be broadcast each season through an 11-year media rights deal with Disney, Amazon Prime and NBC that the league announced Wednesday. While the league didn't reveal the value, a person familiar with the deal confirmed to The Associated Press that the WNBA would...
How to Decode Kamala Harris’s Foreign Policy
Kamala Harris's first show on the world stage as the Democrats’ presumptive new presidential nominee is a disappearing act: on July 24th she will absent herself from an address by Binyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, to a joint meeting of Congress. As vice-president, and president of the Senate, Ms...
Ray Pitches 5 Hitless Innings in First Start Since Surgery as Giants Beat Dodgers
LOS ANGELES — Robbie Ray pitched five hitless innings in his San Francisco debut, Matt Chapman homered, and the Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-3 on Wednesday night. The Giants held the Dodgers without a hit until Chris Taylor doubled to right off reliever Tyler Rogers with two outs...
Publisher Plans Massive ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Reprints to Meet Demand for VP Candidate JD Vance’s Book
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump's selection of JD Vance as his running mate has led to a surge in sales for "Hillbilly Elegy," his best-selling memoir that came out in 2016. A spokesperson for HarperCollins told The Associated Press that more than 650,000 copies have been sold since...
The Real Theme of JD Vance’s and Donald Trump’s Memoirs
“READING well”, wrote Harold Bloom, a well-read literary critic, is “the most healing of pleasures.” Apparently Bloom did not read many books by political candidates. They combine a salesman’s saccharine pushiness and the suspense of watching a second hand rotate, with prose that has been focus-grouped into a turgid blandness...
Raiders Star Wide Receiver Davante Adams Isn’t Going Anywhere — for Now, at Least
COSTA MESA — Raiders general manager Tom Telesco moved to end speculation at the NFL scouting combine in February that star wide receiver Davante Adams might be on the trade block. "He's a Raider," Telesco said. But the talk has continued about Adams' future in Las Vegas — and it...
Clayton Kershaw Excited to Be Returning to Dodgers’ Rotation at a Pivotal Time
LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw's return to the rotation was once expected to be an added bonus as the Los Angeles Dodgers geared up for a postseason run. Longtime Ace Coming Back at Crucial Juncture It turns out, the longtime ace is coming back at a pivotal time. When Kershaw...
US Economic Growth Increased Last Quarter to a Healthy 2.8% Annual Rate
WASHINGTON — The nation's economy accelerated last quarter at a strong 2.8% annual pace, with consumers and businesses helping drive growth despite the pressure of continually high interest rates. Thursday's report from the Commerce Department said the gross domestic product — the economy's total output of goods and services —...