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Canadian Summer McIntosh, 16, gets second gold medal at swimming worlds in Japan

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:04:08 GMT

FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh should be a star at next year’s Paris Olympics, and she showed why Sunday on the closing day of the swimming world championships in Japan.The 16-year-old McIntosh won her second gold of the event, taking the 400-meter individual medley after winning the 200 butterfly gold on Friday. That made up for a slow start for the young Canadian, who finished fourth in the 400 free, where she held the world record until Australia’s Ariarne Titmus took it back. She also took bronze in the 200 free, at least getting a medal.“Going into tonight I just wanted to see how hard I could push myself,” McIntosh said.She did just that. Her time of 4 minutes, 27.11 seconds was the third fastest ever, not far off her world record of 4:25.87. She was also the defending world champion. American Katie Grimes took the silver in 4:31.41, with Jenna Forrester of Australia picking up the bronze in 4:32.30.“It was definitely motivating,” McIntosh said o...

Horror en el aire: 4 muertos tras accidentes durante show aéreo en Wisconsin

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:04:08 GMT

Un choque en el aire entre un helicóptero y un girocóptero mientras se realizaba un gran espectáculo aéreo en Oshkosh, Wisconsin, dejó dos muertos y dos heridos el sábado, dijeron las autoridades.Otras dos personas murieron más temprano ese día cuando un avión monomotor se estrelló contra el cercano lago Winnebago, dijo la capitana Lara Vendola-Messer de la Oficina del Alguacil del condado Winnebago.Los dos incidentes ocurrieron mientras se realizaba cerca la convención de vuelo EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. El primer accidente ocurrió alrededor de las 9 a.m. de ese día, cuando un monomotor norteamericano T-6 Texan impactó el lago Winnebago después de salir del aeropuerto regional de Wittman, según la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA, por sus siglas en inglés). Esto fue fuera del sitio para el espectáculo aéreo. Furia en el aire: pasajeras enfurecen y empiezan a discutir en pleno vuelo Horrible tragedia: familia mexicana muere al estrel...

2 missing boys found safe

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:04:08 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Two boys reported missing Saturday night out of Jefferson County were found and were safe.The Colorado Bureau of Investigation had issued alerts for the two boys.

1 dead in crash on I-70 in Denver

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:04:08 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Denver Police investigated a fatal crash that occurred on Interstate 70 at Central Park Boulevard.DPD said early Sunday morning the crash was on eastbound I-70.A driver struck a parked vehicle on the side of the road. The passenger in the vehicle that struck the parked car was pronounced dead on the scene.The driver is being held for investigation of vehicular homicide, according to DPD.

‘I beat the odds’: South Florida man who spent weeks in ICU with COVID celebrates 80th birthday

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:04:08 GMT

A South Florida man continues to beat the odds, as he celebrates yet another trip around the sun, years after he fought a tough battle against COVID-19.James Gardner is currently in great health, and on Saturday afternoon, he celebrated his 80th birthday in Southwest Miami-Dade surrounded by family, friends, local officials and the frontline workers who nursed him back to health back in 2020.“I’m great, I’m great. I feel great,” he said. “I beat the odds.”Jackson South Medical Center staff hugged Gardner and became emotional as they shared moments with the coronavirus survivor.7News covered his heartbreaking story as he suffered from the virus three years ago.His wife, Maggie Gross-Gardner, said he had an underlying health condition that worsened his symptoms.At one point, Gardner was placed in the intensive care unit for a few weeks.“I don’t think – I think they were only going to put me on the ventilator, and that was it, and o...

Congress proposal targets financial alleviation for low-income, disabled Americans

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:04:08 GMT

Help may be on the way for low-income Americans with disabilities who don’t earn as much, but are still trying to save money.A proposal before Congress called for federal matching funds for what are known as ABLE accounts.The ABLE accounts are tax-advantaged savings accounts for people with disabilities and their families.There would be a federal dollar-for-dollar match of up to $2,000 for individuals who earn $28,000 or less per year.

Blast rips through political gathering in Pakistan, killing at least 39

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:04:08 GMT

(CNN) — At least 39 people died and over 120 were injured after a blast tore through a political convention organized by an Islamist party in northwestern Pakistan, police said.The Inspector General of Police for the region of Bajaur, Akhter Hayat Gandapur, said the injured in Sunday’s suspected suicide blast had been rushed to hospital.The explosion targeted members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) party who had gathered in the town of Khar, close to the border with Afghanistan.There has been no initial claim of responsibility for the attack. But the local branch of ISIS has previously targeted JUI-F party leaders as they consider them apostates.The leader of the JUI-F party, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, expressed “deep sorrow and regret” following the blast, in a statement released by his press office.“‎Peace be upon JUI workers,” the statement added. “The federal and provincial government should provide the best treatment to the injured.”One witness said more than 500 people we...

US judge dismisses Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ lawsuit against CNN

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:04:08 GMT

A federal judge late Friday dismissed Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which the former president argued that the cable network’s statements about his false 2020 election fraud claims likened him to Adolf Hitler.In the lawsuit, Trump’s team argued that CNN writers and television anchors’ use of the phrase the “Big Lie,” in five specific incidents, incited “readers and viewers to hate, contempt, distrust, ridicule, and even fear” him. But U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who Trump appointed in 2019, reasoned that because all of CNN’s statements were opinion, Trump could not legally sue the network for defamation.“Being ‘Hitler-like’ is not a verifiable statement of fact that would support a defamation claim,” Singhal wrote in his dismissal. “CNN’s statements while repugnant, were not, as a matter of law, defamatory.”The phrase “big lie” historically has referred to a propaganda technique so powerful that people who believe in its message could not belie...

German far right picks EU lead candidate, wants European anti-migrant ‘fortress’

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:04:08 GMT

Germany’s increasingly popular far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party elected the controversial MEP Maximilian Krah as its lead candidate for next year’s European Parliament election, while vowing to challenge the EU from the inside and turn it into a “fortress” against migrants.More than 65 percent of the about 600 AfD delegates at a party gathering on Saturday in Magdeburg, in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, voted for Krah as their lead candidate for the European Parliament election, which will take place June 6-9 next year.“We are now the most exciting right-wing party in all of Europe,” Krah said in his speech in Magdeburg. He argued that the AfD — which advocates anti-migration, climate change-denying, Russia-friendly and deeply Euroskeptic positions — would not “adapt” to less radical stances in order to attract more voters or form alliances, as other right-wing parties would allegedly do. Krah, 46, has been...

Macron warns against attacks on French interests in Niger after coup

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:04:08 GMT

French President Emmanuel Macron said France will respond “immediately” to any violence against French interests in Niger following the coup in the African country. The French government “will not tolerate any attack on France and its interests” in Niger, Macron said on Sunday, according to media reports. Macron’s comments were in response to thousands of people demonstrating in front of the French embassy in Niamey, the capital of Niger. According to media reports, the crowds in front of the French embassy were shouting “Long live Putin” and “Down with France.” Tensions are running high in Niger after the country’s military last week took the country’s democratically elected president hostage and proclaimed it was in charge. West African leaders were holding an emergency meeting on Sunday in Nigeria to decide what to do about the coup, Reuters reported. The military leaders in Niger claimed the goal of the m...