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American wins 1500m freestyle in 15min 36.09sec Walsh beats Douglass to claim 50m butterfly title Urlando breaks Michael Phelps’ 20-year-old record Katie Ledecky won the 1500m freestyle on opening night of the Pan Pacific Championships on Wednesday, earning the first international medal of her storied career on home soil. The two-time Olympic champion in the … Read more

McKenna West initially agreed to an abortion after diagnosis, but then fled to state where abortion is illegal and broke contact with biological parents, attorney alleges A surrogate mother who traveled to Texas, where abortion is illegal, claiming she was pressured to end the pregnancy after the discovery of a severe heart defect, gave birth … Read more

Recent data compiled by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission shows 19 pedestrians were killed across the US in crashes with ebike riders from 2017 to 2024. That’s roughly the average number of pedestrians killed by motorists every day of 2024 Continue reading…

Shortly after announcing his intention to run for U.S. Senate, then-candidate Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., said he would support reparations legislation — government-led efforts to make up for the social harms of slavery and other injustices against Black Americans. In a 2019 radio interview, Ossoff said it was only a question of how much the government … Read more

Democratic socialist Francesca Hong fell just short as David Crowley strives for unity for the general election Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, was on course to win the party’s nomination for Wisconsin governor on Wednesday by a clear margin, according to the polls – presaging the latest in an extraordinary wave of leftwing victories across … Read more

New owner is said to be involved in AI industry, as new class of multimillionaires is entering the real estate race A luxury Lake Como-inspired estate in the San Francisco Bay Area has sold to a buyer “in the AI world” for a record $70m, in the latest sign of a new tech wealth boom … Read more

John Hinckley, Jr. spoke about Jodie Foster in a bizarre new podcast interview. He shot President Reagan in a twisted attempt to impress the actress. NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports.

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Military official says AH-64 Apache had been on a routine training flight near Fort Hood when it went down An army Apache helicopter crashed in a central Texas field on Wednesday, killing both people on board and sparking a wildfire that forced several homes to be evacuated, a sheriff’s official said. Officials from nearby Fort … Read more

Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White says the critics who are trying to “hijack” the WNBA can “go to hell.” It comes after Fever guard Sophie Cunningham spoke against transgender women and girl athletes in an ESPN interview, and Cunningham being on the receiving end of a flagrant foul. NBC News’ Sam Brock reports.