ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter shall be honored subsequent month, forward of his a centesimal birthday, with a musical gala on the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, The Carter Heart introduced Thursday.

The Sept. 17 occasion — “Jimmy Carter 100: A Celebration in Tune” — will characteristic musicians from a spread of genres and celeb friends. Carter’s birthday is Oct. 1.

Artists embody Chuck Leavell, D-Good, Drive-By Truckers, Eric Church, GROUPLOVE, Maren Morris and The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Refrain. Notable friends embody former Atlanta Braves star Dale Murphy, Atlanta rap artist Killer Mike and actor Sean Penn. Different friends shall be introduced earlier than the occasion, organizers mentioned.

The thirty ninth president, who served from 1977 to 1981, stays at his house in Plains, Georgia, the place he has been receiving hospice care since February 2023. He was final seen publicly at funeral companies for former first woman Rosalynn Carter, who died in November. However these near him say he stays in good spirits, generally receiving guests, repeatedly watching Braves video games on tv and nonetheless having fun with music.

“Whether or not it was on his file gamers, on the marketing campaign path, or on the White Home garden, music has been and continues to be a supply of pleasure, consolation and inspiration for my grandfather,” Jason Carter mentioned in a press release.

Jason Carter chairs the governing board on the Carter Heart, the human rights group that Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter launched in 1982, not lengthy after leaving the White Home.

This system on the Fox is predicted to have a good time the Carters’ work advocating for human rights, public well being and democracy world wide.

Tickets will price $100 and can go on sale via the Fox Theatre field workplace at 10 a.m. on Aug. 5. Proceeds will profit The Carter Heart.

Individually, The Carter Heart is soliciting messages for the previous president from the general public that shall be customary right into a digital mosaic, just like what the middle did for his 99th birthday celebration.

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On the net: CarterCenter.org/JimmyCarter100

US presidential candidate Donald Trump has stirred a brand new racial controversy after asserting that Vice President Kamala Harris turned to her Black id lately out of political expediency.

Talking at a conference of Black journalists in Chicago on Wednesday, the previous president claimed that Harris, the primary Black lady and Asian American to function vp, had promoted her Indian heritage till very lately.

Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, known as his feedback divisive.

So what occurred and has Trump achieved this earlier than? Here’s what we all know:

What did Trump say on the NABJ Conference?

“I didn’t know she was Black till numerous years in the past when she occurred to show Black and now she desires to be often called Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump mentioned throughout a panel on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists (NABJ) Conference.

“I’ve recognized her a very long time not directly, indirectly very a lot, and he or she was all the time of Indian heritage,” Trump mentioned.

“I respect both one, however she clearly doesn’t, as a result of she was Indian all the way in which, after which unexpectedly she made a flip and he or she went – she grew to become a Black individual,” he mentioned. “I believe anyone ought to look into that, too.”

Trump additionally accused a panel moderator, Rachel Scott – the senior congressional correspondent for ABC Information – of being “impolite” and presenting a “nasty query”.

“You have got used phrases like animal and rabid to explain Black district attorneys,” Scott mentioned.

“You’ve attacked Black journalists calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask are silly and racist … you’ve had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort.

“So my query, sir, now that you’re asking Black supporters to vote for you, why ought to Black voters belief you?” Scott mentioned.

To which Trump responded: “I’ve by no means been requested a query in such a horrible method.”

The interview occurred lower than three weeks earlier than the Democratic Nationwide Conference later this month, when the occasion is anticipated to formally nominate Harris and her operating mate. This look supplied Trump with a chance to handle Black voters.

In accordance with an Axios reporter, his interview, which was meant to final an hour, was minimize quick by his crew after 34 minutes.

Trump’s look on the NABJ Conference was an try to achieve out to Black voters, however the heated panel exchanges could backfire on the previous president, who’s more likely to face off in opposition to Harris within the November elections.

Is Kamala Harris Black?

Harris, 59, has lengthy embraced her Black and South Asian id.

She is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mom – each immigrants.

In accordance with a report by The Wall Road Journal (WSJ), she was raised in a predominantly Black neighbourhood in Berkeley, California, as a result of her mom believed that her daughters would ultimately be recognised as Black ladies and needed them to be surrounded by robust function fashions.

In her youth, she additionally attended Howard College, a traditionally Black establishment in Washington, DC, and joined Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation’s oldest sorority established for Black school ladies in 1908.

Harris grew to become a member of the Congressional Black Caucus after coming into the Senate in 2017.

“I’m Black, and I’m pleased with being Black,” Harris mentioned in 2019. “I used to be born Black. I’ll die Black, and I’m not going to make excuses for anyone as a result of they don’t perceive.”

What was Harris’s response?

In a while Wednesday, talking in Houston at a gathering of Sigma Gamma Rho, the Black sorority’s gathering of its total membership in Texas,  Harris responded to Trump’s claims.

“Donald Trump spoke on the annual assembly of the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists,” Harris mentioned.

“And it was the identical outdated present: the divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me simply say, the American folks deserve higher. The American folks deserve a pacesetter who tells the reality. A frontrunner who doesn’t reply with hostility and anger when confronted with the information. We deserve a pacesetter who understands that our variations don’t divide us – they’re a necessary supply of our power.”

Were there any other reactions?

Yes. Shortly after the event, the White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also reacted to Trump’s comments.

“As a person of colour, as a Black woman who is in this position,” Jean-Pierre said, “what he just said … is repulsive. It’s insulting,” she added.

“No one has any right to tell someone who they are.”

“She is the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris. We have to put some respect on her name, period,” Jean-Pierre added.

Has Trump attacked Black opponents earlier than?

Trump’s feedback replicate his earlier assaults on Black political opponents, such because the “birtherism” conspiracy concept that falsely claimed former President Barack Obama was not born within the US. This was the start of Trump difficult the credentials of Black politicians.

In accordance with consultants such a claims and conspiracy theories might be harmful.

“Social science analysis reveals that these sorts of claims can’t be un-made after the very fact,” Paul Rosenberg wrote for Al Jazeera in 2012. “As soon as on the market, they by no means go away,” he added.

Is the Black vote essential for each candidates?

Successful over Black voters is essential for each candidates.

Trump partly gained his race in opposition to Hillary Clinton in 2016 partly as a result of fewer Black and Latino voters turned out to vote, based on Pew Analysis. The Democratic Occasion has historically acquired greater than 80 p.c of Black votes.

In 2020, 92 p.c of Black voters selected Joe Biden, whereas solely 8 p.c backed Trump.

In accordance with a report by ABC, Black voters at the moment make up at the least 10 p.c of the inhabitants in a number of key states more likely to affect this 12 months’s election, together with Michigan and Florida. In states like Georgia, Black Individuals account for a 3rd of eligible voters, based on a Pew analysis. So small modifications within the vote might sway the election.

PARIS (AP) — As a homosexual youth rising up in central France, Hugo Bardin by no means felt he lived in a world that represented who he was — a world during which he had a spot.

And that’s the reason Bardin, who performs because the drag queen Paloma, felt it was significant and vital to be a part of a Paris Olympics opening ceremony that offered a multifaceted, multiethnic France with individuals of various ethnicities and orientations.

“It was a extremely vital second for the French individuals and the illustration of France world wide,” says Paloma, who took half in a single scene that has drawn some livid criticism — together with from presidential candidate Donald Trump in the US, who known as it “a shame.”

Though the ceremony’s inventive director, Thomas Jolly, and different contributors have repeatedly mentioned the scene wasn’t impressed by “The Final Supper,” critics interpreted that a part of the present as a mockery of Leonardo Da Vinci’s portray displaying Jesus Christ and his apostles.

Paloma, finest recognized for profitable “Drag Race France,” appeared with different drag artists and dancers alongside Barbara Butch, a preferred DJ who wore a silver headdress that appeared like a halo. Butch has now filed a grievance alleging on-line abuse and harassment, and Paris police have launched an investigation.

Paloma isn’t, at this level, planning to take authorized motion over on-line harassment, and would like to concentrate on the numerous “loving messages” which have been pouring in. The performer been getting hundreds of messages every day, she informed The Related Press, most of them constructive however some that she described as “violent” and even “from the Center Ages.”

Nonetheless, there are not any misgivings, regardless of the backlash. Paloma mentioned she was proud to have been a part of a present that didn’t depend on a collection of French cliches — for instance, “the Parisian with a baguette below their arm.”

“It may have been a postcard from 1930,” she mentioned of the ceremony. “However as a substitute, it was {a photograph} of France in 2024.”

Many agreed and praised the ceremony for its creativity, type and showmanship.

However French Catholic bishops and others had been amongst those that mentioned Christians had been offended, although Paris Olympics organizers have mentioned there was “by no means an intention to point out disrespect to any spiritual group” however fairly to “have fun neighborhood tolerance.”

Trump was requested on Fox Information what he considered the so-called “Final Supper” scene. “I’m very open-minded,” the previous president and present Republican nominee informed host Laura Ingraham, “however I believed what they did was a shame.”

Of Trump’s feedback, Paloma mentioned: “My first response is to say that if Donald Trump isn’t reacting, then we’ve not accomplished our job.”

The criticism, she mentioned, has been fueled by hate. “The place is the Catholicism, the Christianity in that? It is extremely hypocritical that their message isn’t about faith or kindness, it’s about hate in the direction of Jews, fats individuals, queer individuals and trans individuals.”

“We now have been accused of making an attempt to impose our imaginative and prescient on the world,” Bardin mentioned. “We aren’t. … We simply need to let individuals know that we’ve a spot on this planet, and we’re claiming that place.”

Paloma spoke to the AP in a cellphone interview and later at her Paris workshop, a studio dedicated to her drag efficiency. Bardin debuted the drag queen persona some 5 years in the past, the Spanish identify impressed by the movies of Pedro Almodóvar.

Requested if she had any regrets, Paloma replied: “My solely regrets is individuals’s reactions. I’m sorry if persons are offended, however we didn’t attempt to parody, to mock ‘The Final Supper.’ It was not the purpose. So I can’t remorse what I did. I’m sorry for individuals to solely see issues in a foul means.”

She added: “Possibly change the angle. Change the viewpoint. Attempt to see the wonder in what we did. As a result of it was simply magnificence. It was simply solely about magnificence and reunion, and reparation.”

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AP journalists Nicolas Garriga and Amira Borders in Paris contributed to this report.

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For extra protection of the Paris Olympics, go to https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games.

Hearth crews labored by way of the night time to attempt to get containment on three of the wildfires burning alongside the Entrance Vary.

Wednesday night time, officers working the Stone Canyon fireplace north of Lyons mentioned they have been capable of get 20% containment on the fireplace, which began Tuesday, and a few residents in Lyons have been allowed to return to their houses.

Whereas floor crews labored the fireplace strains in a single day, air assist is predicted to renew Thursday morning as officers proceed to share sources.

The Alexander Mountain fireplace is the most important wildfire within the state and late Wednesday night time officers introduced they’d 1% containment. That’s on the east aspect as they proceed to guard the Sylvan Dale Visitor Ranch. 

On Wednesday, Gov. Jared Polis mentioned he has activated the Colorado Nationwide Guard to assist with logistics in preventing the wildfires. Troopers gained’t be preventing the fires however will assist with backup assist, together with site visitors management and different wants. Polis additionally mentioned FEMA will assist pay for the prices to combat the fires, and can cowl 75% of the prices.

The Nationwide Climate Service in Denver mentioned there might be a slight probability of afternoon storms primarily over Park County and the Palmer Divide, however “elevated fireplace circumstances will proceed over greater terrain.” These circumstances embody above regular temperatures, forecast within the excessive 90s, and low humidity.

Heat and stagnant climate mixed with smoke from native and out-of-state fires will deliver unhealthy air high quality that may very well be dangerous for individuals with respiratory sicknesses, kids and older adults, state well being officers warned in an advisory Thursday morning. 

The warning is for Douglas County north to Larimer and Weld counties, together with the Denver-Boulder space, Greeley and Fort Collins and stays in impact till 4 p.m. 

Catch up: Learn dwell updates from Wednesday

Alexander Mountain fireplace

Present measurement: 8,089 acres
Location: Massive Thompson Canyon west of Loveland
Containment: 1%
Trigger: Unknown
Affect: 3,200 individuals evacuated; no less than two dozen buildings broken or destroyed; no accidents

Greater than 20 buildings broken, destroyed

A minimum of two dozen buildings have burned within the fireplace, the Larimer County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned Thursday afternoon. The buildings are believed to be a mixture of houses and outbuildings.

“Getting the notification that your house or property has been broken isn’t straightforward. We are going to grieve alongside our neighbors by way of this troublesome course of, and our crew might be right here for you within the troublesome days and months forward,” Larimer County Sheriff John Feyen mentioned in a information launch.

— 3:20 p.m. Thursday

Updates on plans for preventing blaze 

Hotshot crews are prioritizing defending houses within the Masonville subdivision on the fireplace’s east aspect and Cedar Park subdivision on the west, by creating pure fireplace boundaries, mentioned Jayson Coil, the operations part chief with the Southwest Space Incident Administration Group.

Crews will work till they attain the Cameron Peak fireplace scar, Coil mentioned, saying that the fireplace is just not anticipated to journey north past the fireplace’s scar. 

Firefighters may also work to guard houses alongside U.S. 34 and check out to ensure the fireplace doesn’t leap south of the freeway, the place there are much more timber, he mentioned. 

— 12:20 p.m. Thursday

New crew takes command of operations

As of 6 a.m., the Southwest Space Incident Administration Group 1 has assumed command of the fireplace. The crew, primarily based out of Albuquerque, was final in Colorado in July 2002 to assist with the Massive Elk fireplace, which burned 4,800 acres south of Estes Park. (Three pilots have been killed preventing that fireplace.) 

At present there are 450 personnel preventing the Alexander Mountain fireplace, which began Monday. The reason for the fireplace is unknown and beneath investigation.

The incident crew has arrange a brand new Fb web page for updates on the fireplace. 

— 9:05 a.m. Thursday

Thursday morning’s replace

Firefighters have made minor headway and have been capable of get its first little bit of containment and have secured the perimeter subsequent to the Sylvan Dale Visitor Ranch, which is on the east aspect of the blaze close to the place it began. Crews proceed to maintain the flames from leaping over Freeway 34, which stays closed.

Hotshot firefighting crews and different sources are anticipated to reach Thursday to combat the fireplace, the Larimer County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned. 

Smoke was an enormous challenge for aerial crews Wednesday and “there have been occasions when aviation belongings couldn’t be utilized,” officers mentioned late Wednesday night time. 

— 5:40 a.m. Thursday

Stone Canyon fireplace

Present measurement: 1,553 acres
Location: Stone Mountain exterior Lyons in Larimer County
Containment: 20%
Trigger: Unknown
Affect: One fatality; 5 buildings have been destroyed

Hearth restrictions upgraded; “excessive warning” urged

The Boulder County Sheriff’s Workplace has enacted stage 2 fireplace restrictions and is asking all residents and guests to make use of excessive warning with something that would doubtlessly begin a spark or flame. Larimer County, the place the Alexander Mountain fireplace is burning, additionally has enacted stage 2 restrictions.

Stage 2 fireplace restrictions prohibit:

• Constructing, sustaining or utilizing an open fireplace, campfire or range fireplace on personal and public lands, together with charcoal grills and barbecues. This ban can also be in impact in developed tenting and picnic areas. 
• Firework gross sales, use and possession, together with fireworks which can be in any other case authorized
• Capturing or discharge of firearms for leisure use
• Smoking, until in an enclosed car or constructing, a developed leisure web site or whereas stopped in an space no less than 10 ft in diameter that’s barren or cleared of all flammable supplies
• Opening a chainsaw and not using a USDA or SAE authorised spark arrester that’s correctly put in and in good working order
• Utilizing an explosive to do any type of blasting work
• Welding or utilizing a torch with an open flame outside
• Utilizing a car off established roads, motorized trails or established parking areas, besides when parking in an space that doesn’t have vegetation inside 10 ft of the car 

— 11:05 a.m. Thursday

Minimal development in a single day; air assist diverted

There was little development in a single day and the fireplace stays at about 1,548 acres, Boulder County officers mentioned Thursday morning. 

The hearth, which began Tuesday morning, will doubtless get much less air assist as plane are reassigned to different fires which can be nonetheless rising, the county mentioned. Crews will proceed to work on the bottom to safe the fireplace perimeter and assess injury by the fireplace. 

Forecasted excessive temperatures and low relative humidity ranges will present little aid to the fireplace.

—9:20 a.m. Thursday

Thursday morning’s replace

Officers mentioned Wednesday night time they’d 20% containment on the fireplace, which has slowed however is transferring to the northeast. Floor crews have been working the fireplace strains in a single day, and air assist is predicted to renew Thursday morning.

— 5:45 a.m. Thursday

Quarry fireplace

Present measurement: 341 acres
Location: Deer Creek Canyon in Jefferson County
Containment: 0%
Trigger: Unknown
Affect: 600 houses evacuated; no accidents or burned houses

Flames inside quarter-mile of houses

Three helicopters and two planes proceed to drop water and retardant on the fireplace Thursday.

“We’re lucky to have these. The opposite fires happening, air sources are essential to all of us,” Mark Techmeyer, a spokesperson for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned throughout a 2 p.m. information convention. “Once we put in a request final night time, we put it in with crossed fingers.” 

Further sources could be “fabulous to have,” however crews are working with what they’ve, calling the fireplace a “onerous combat,” Stacy Martin, assistant chief of Evergreen Hearth Safety District.

Officers couldn’t present an estimate as to how lengthy earlier than evacuated residents might return residence.

“This terrain isn’t like one thing I’ve seen in my profession in 15 years,” he mentioned. “It’s onerous. This factor might go on for days, every week, two weeks, we simply don’t know.”

Whereas the Quarry fireplace isn’t the most important burning within the foothills, Techmeyer mentioned the quantity of houses in danger and difficult terrain locations the fireplace as a excessive precedence to get beneath management.

No buildings have been misplaced within the fireplace, however Techmeyer mentioned flames are inside a quarter-mile of some houses.

“You take a look at the extremely troublesome terrain it’s for firefighters, and also you take a look at the density of residence which can be up there and also you take a look at belongings that actually can’t afford to be misplaced just like the watershed that places out water right down to 2,800,000 individuals down towards Denver that may very well be affected by this hearth if it acquired uncontrolled; Lockheed Martin proper behind us,” he mentioned. 

“These are issues that need to be protected, to not point out the houses of those who dwell there.” 

— 2:32 p.m. Thursday

West Ranch subdivision residents informed to be prepared to depart

Folks residing within the West Ranch neighborhood in central Jefferson County needs to be alert and able to go away, Inter-Canyon Hearth Safety District mentioned in a put up on Fb about 12:45 p.m. West Ranch is a 1,250-acre gated neighborhood with 52 houses.

An evacuation middle has been created at Dakota Ridge Excessive College at 13399 West Coal Mine Ave. Anybody who wants assist ought to name 911.

— 1:50 p.m. Thursday

Replace on fireplace sources

There are three helicopters, two plane, 155 firefighters and 23 fireplace rigs on scene preventing the Quarry fireplace, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.

— 1 p.m. Thursday

Firefighter morale stays excessive 

“The volunteers, they’re execs, that is what they do they usually know what they’re signing up for,” Mark Techmeyer, a spokesperson for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned Thursday. “Their morale is: Let’s go to battle, let’s repair this factor, let’s put this hearth out, let’s deal with these individuals’s houses.” 

The reason for the fireplace, which began Tuesday night, stays beneath investigation.

“Everybody needs to be anxious proper now, there’s an enormous fireplace that’s troublesome to combat. … This isn’t straightforward of us, it is a robust fireplace,” Techmeyer mentioned, including that the fireplace is a couple of quarter-mile from West Sampson Highway. Techmeyer mentioned he expects firefighting efforts to increase into the weekend.

“We’re going to be on this for some time.” 

County officers discouraged donations of meals and different objects as a result of there is no such thing as a house to place them. Extra info on methods to assist affected residents will be discovered on-line.

— 8:35 a.m. Thursday

No development in a single day

Low winds and better humidity helped firefighters and the fireplace didn’t develop in a single day, Mark Techmeyer, a spokesman for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace, mentioned Thursday morning. 

“We had a terrific night time final night time. The hearth behaved, it laid down and didn’t develop in a single day,” he mentioned.

“This hearth can not leap over to the north aspect of Deer Creek Canyon Highway. We’ve got an entire different state of affairs on our fingers if that occurs,” he mentioned. “If we lose management of this hearth and it jumps over to the north aspect, that will be our nightmare.” 

— 8:10 a.m. Thursday

Hotshots arrive to assist; 5 firefighters injured however OK

The San Juan Hotshots, a bunch of 20 firefighters from Colorado, arrived Wednesday night time and can assist to assault the fireplace from the bottom, Mark Techmeyer mentioned. 

“They’re boots on the bottom in robust terrain and deal with robust conditions,” he mentioned, including, “Let’s be actual, this hearth is not going to be gained within the air. We’ve got to have the Hotshots.”

As temperatures crept close to 100 levels, 5 firefighters assigned to the fireplace have been injured, Techmeyer mentioned. 4 suffered from warmth exhaustion and one had a seizure. None have been hospitalized and all are in good situation Thursday, he mentioned.

— 8 a.m. Thursday

Thursday morning’s replace

Infrared imaging estimated the fireplace to be at 341 acres, in line with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace.

The hearth is burning in a extremely dense inhabitants space, and extra pre-evacuation warnings have been issued Wednesday night time, placing the  Homestead South and Oehlmann Park neighborhoods on discover.

Greater than a dozen fireplace businesses responded to the fireplace Wednesday, together with 17 firefighters with 5 engines from West Metro fireplace division who labored alongside the street digging fireplace strains and slicing down brush and different fuels to assist strengthen pure boundaries to cease the fireplace.

— 5:50 a.m. Thursday

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NANTERRE, France (AP) — Seems, these comparisons to Michael Phelps weren’t far fetched in any respect in relation to Léon Marchand.

They actually weren’t a burden for the 22-year-old Frenchman.

Marchand accomplished one of the audacious doubles in swimming historical past Wednesday evening, profitable the 200-meter butterfly and the 200 breaststroke about two hours aside in entrance of a house crowd cheering his each stroke.

Two grueling races. Two very completely different strokes. Two Olympic information. Two gold medals.

Take that, Phelps, who did a number of doubles of his personal whereas claiming a document eight golds on the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

“I’m a very shy individual,” Marchand mentioned. “I used to be form of the focal point throughout these two races. I used to be attempting to get the vitality from the entire crowd. They’re wonderful to me, pushing me in each closing.”

Thrilling the French followers and claiming the highlight even on an evening when Katie Ledecky romped to a different gold medal, Marchand notched his second and third victories at La Protection Enviornment and stamped himself — with the Olympics not even every week outdated — as one of many faces of the Paris Video games.

After rallying to beat world-record holder and defending Olympic champion Kristóf Milák within the 200 fly with a ending kick for the ages, Marchand made it look straightforward within the 200 breast.

He led all the best way, touching in 2 minutes, 5.85 seconds as greater than 15,000 followers — lots of them holding up cardboard cutouts of his smiling face — practically blew the roof off La Protection Enviornment.

“Léon! Léon! Léon!” they screamed, a chant that was certain to hold on via the evening in Paris.

Marchand will get factor rolling

Trailing a lot of the manner within the 200 fly, Marchand surged previous the Hungarian Milák on the ultimate lap to complete with an Olympic document of 1:51.21, touching first by simply by .54 of a second.

Marchand’s closing lap was practically 0.66 sooner than anybody else within the subject — and 1.26 away from Milák.

“I’ve been watching so many races from him,” Marchand mentioned. “I do know he has quite a lot of pace, far more than me, so I used to be simply attempting to get as shut as doable, after which simply push it till the top.”

The bronze went to Canada’s Ilya Kharun.

Following up his dominating victory within the 400 particular person medley on Sunday, Marchand waved one finger and shook his head only a bit, as if he couldn’t fairly imagine what he had executed.

Then, he hustled off the deck to a different rousing cheer to start his heat down, although these preparations have been interrupted by a compulsory return for the victory ceremony.

After a boisterous rendition of “La Marseillaise,” the opposite two medalists walked slowly across the pool, getting their footage made.

Not Marchand. He hustled again to the follow pool. There was one other race to go.

Ledecky’s document gold

The American star made probably the most of her visitor look on The Marchand Present by romping to her seventh particular person Olympic gold medal — she additionally has a relay gold — and twelfth medal general with a runaway victory within the 1,500 freestyle.

The 27-year-old Ledecky tied fellow People Dara Torres, Natalie Coughlin and Jenny Thompson for probably the most medals ever by a feminine swimmer. Ledecky already held the mark for many particular person gold medals by a girl coming into these Video games.

“I strive not to consider historical past very a lot,” Ledecky mentioned. “However I do know these names, these those who I’m up there with, they’re swimmers that I appeared as much as once I first began swimming. So it’s an honor simply to be named amongst them.”

Ledecky led proper from the beginning and steadily pulled away, touching in an Olympic-record 15:30.02 in an occasion that joined the ladies’s program on the Tokyo Video games in 2021.

This was much like the race three years in the past: Ledecky far in entrance and everybody else racing for a silver.

France’s Anastasiia Kirpichnikova completed practically a half lap behind however thrilled the house followers by claiming the second spot on the rostrum in 15:40.35.

The bronze went to Germany’s Isabel Gose at 15:41.16.

After beginning the Paris Video games with a bronze within the 400 freestyle, this outcome appeared extra acquainted for Ledecky.

She was clearly thrilled to be on prime once more, splashing the water and pumping her fist a number of occasions strolling throughout the deck — a uncommon present of emotion for a stoic athlete who performs with machine-like effectivity.

“I do know quite a lot of different folks anticipated it of me,” Ledecky mentioned. “That doesn’t make it straightforward. I imply, it’s not straightforward to all the time observe via and also you get the job executed.”

Marchand returns for extra gold

As Ledecky was strolling off the deck along with her gold medal, it was time for Marchand to go for his second of the evening,

No drawback. He blew away the sector within the 200 breaststroke with an Olympic document of two:05.85, knocking off one other champion from Tokyo.

Australia’s Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner settled for the silver this time, practically a second behind in 2:06.79. Claiming the bronze was Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands.

“Essentially the most thrilling a part of that complete race and watching him soak all of it up and have his second,” Stubblety-Prepare dinner mentioned. “I believe it’s superior. It’s nice for the game of swimming and it’s nice to see the higher half of 15,000 folks chanting one individual’s identify and watching swimming dwell.”

Marchand climbed out of the pool and stared on the scoreboard. He tussled his mop of curly hair just a few occasions, then threw his arms within the air.

His work was executed, not less than for just a few hours. Subsequent up is the 200 particular person medley, which begins with heats Thursday morning.

“I’m so very pleased with him,” mentioned his coach, American Bob Bowman, who additionally was Phelps’ coach. “That’s an amazing, historic effort.”

China’s Pan Zhanle units first swimming world document of Paris Video games

Practically misplaced in all of the hoopla was China’s Pan Zhanle setting the primary world document of those Video games, breaking his personal mark within the 100 freestyle.

He gained in 46.40, simply knocking off the mark of 46.80 he set in February on the world championships in Doha.

It was a formidable efficiency given the shallow pool at La Protection Enviornment, which has been cited as the massive purpose no world information fell over the primary 4 days of the meet.

Australia’s Kyle Chalmers claimed the silver and David Popovici of Romania nabbed the bronze.

Swedish gold for 5-time Olympian Sjöström

Sarah Sjöström made her fifth Olympics a gold-medal celebration with a victory within the 100 freestyle.

Sjöström had pared down her program on the final two world championships, swimming solely the 50 free. She determined so as to add the 100 on the Paris Video games, and boy did that call repay.

Her profitable time was 52.16, with the U.S. settling for an additional silver medal — its eighth of the swimming competitors — when Torri Huske completed in 52.29. Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong took the bronze.

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A earlier model of this story had the inaccurate ending time for Marchand within the 200 butterfly and an incorrect hole between his time and Milák’s. The proper time was 1:51:21, not 1:51.71.

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AP Summer season Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games

Vybz Kartel is a free man. After 13 years behind bars, Vybz — born Adidja Azim Palmer — was launched from jail on Wednesday.

Per FOX 5, the Jamaica Courtroom of Enchantment voted unanimously to not have a retrial within the 2011 homicide of Clive “Lizard” Williams, which led to the dancehall star’s launch alongside along with his three co-defendants, Shawn Campbell, Kahira Jones and Andre St. John.

Despite the fact that Williams’ physique was by no means found, Vybz was convicted within the homicide in 2014. Kartel and his co-defendants confronted accusations of killing Williams over two unlicensed firearms that weren’t returned to them.

“We conclude that the curiosity of justice doesn’t require a brand new trial to be ordered,” Justice Marva McDonald-Bishop acknowledged, per BBC.

One of many causes the courtroom cited was additionally due to Vybz Kartel’s deteriorating well being scenario, as he’s been recognized with Graves’ Illness and a coronary heart situation. FOX 5 additionally reported that the Jamaican icon was battling a thyroid illness, whereas his attorneys stated his jail circumstances had been “inhumane.”

Vybz regaining his freedom turned a chance when the U.Ok.’s Privy Council overturned the conviction in opposition to him and the co-defendants in March, citing juror misconduct attributable to an alleged bribery try.

As soon as King Charles signed off on the matter, Vybz’s destiny was again within the Jamaican Courtroom of Enchantment’s arms.

Along with the “Summer time Time” singer’s well being scenario, the enchantment courtroom stated the period of time and lack of witnesses and monetary assets wanted additionally performed a task within the resolution in opposition to a retrial.

A celebratory scene broke out as followers had been despatched right into a frenzy outdoors the Jamaican courthouse after studying that Vybz Kartel could be strolling away free.

Vybz Kartel has labored with Rihanna, Eminem and Jay-Z up to now. The 48-year-old artist has launched seven totally different tasks into the Reggae Albums chart’s prime 10. His most up-to-date LP arrived in 2021 with Born Fi Dis (Prelude).

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Followers broke down limitations to mob lawyer Isat Buchanan as he emerged from the Courtroom of the Enchantment in downtown Kingston on Wednesday, after his shopper and dancehall star Vybz Kartel was simply freed of a homicide cost. “Free worl’ boss!” the followers shouted.

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— Jamaica Gleaner (@JamaicaGleaner) July 31, 2024

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Music star Vybz Kartel is now out of the State’s custody and is again on Jamaican streets. The 48-year-old artiste, who’s battling ailing well being, was met by adoring followers as he left jail in Kingston, hours after the Courtroom of Enchantment freed him of a 13-year-old homicide cost. pic.twitter.com/QYGtuD6dI3

— Jamaica Gleaner (@JamaicaGleaner) July 31, 2024

After barely escaping with a one-point win towards South Sudan in an exhibition this month, the U.S. had a a lot simpler time Wednesday.

The U.S. cruised to a 103-86 win, transferring to 2-0 in group play. South Sudan fell to 1-1 with the loss.

The U.S. led for the overwhelming majority of the competition. After just a little little bit of back-and-forth motion early, it took a lead with slightly below 4 minutes to go within the first quarter and would maintain on to it for the remainder of the evening.

Bam Adebayo was the star. Coming off the bench, he scored 18 factors on 8-for-10 capturing, draining two 3s and including seven rebounds and two blocks for good measure. It was a balanced effort elsewhere, with 5 different gamers scoring in double digits.

It was just a little little bit of a unique search for the U.S. in contrast with its opener towards Serbia. In that recreation, Joel Embiid began at middle, whereas Jayson Tatum notably by no means made it on the court docket. Towards South Sudan, coach Steve Kerr began Anthony Davis rather than Embiid and Tatum rather than Jrue Vacation.

Embiid didn’t play in any respect, whereas Vacation was a part of the bench group that included Adebayo, Kevin Durant, Derrick White and Anthony Edwards. Tyrese Haliburton additionally noticed his first motion of the Olympics, that means 11 gamers earned minutes Wednesday.

Exterior of a really temporary harm scare to Davis within the second and a South Sudan run that minimize the lead from 21 factors to 10 within the third, the U.S. didn’t run into any bother. It was fairly a reversal from the exhibition the 2 international locations performed on July 20. In that recreation, the U.S. squeaked out a 101-100 win because of a LeBron James layup within the waning seconds.

South Sudan had the U.S.’ full focus Wednesday, and it was overwhelming. The ball motion was popping offensively, whereas the protection was stifling, significantly that of the second unit led by Adebayo, Vacation and White. South Sudan turned the ball over 19 instances, a giant no-no because the U.S. thrives within the open ground.

Coupled with a blowout win over Serbia to start out group play, the U.S. has been caring for enterprise to start out the Paris Video games. It is going to wrap up group play towards Puerto Rico on Saturday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cardi B has filed for divorce from her husband, rapper Offset.

A consultant for Cardi B confirmed the information to The Related Press, writing, “This isn’t based mostly on anyone specific incident, it has been a very long time coming and is amicable.”

On Instagram, Cardi B didn’t instantly touch upon the information of her divorce, however posted a photograph of her on a rooftop, holding her abdomen to disclose a child bump.

“With each ending comes a brand new starting! I’m so grateful to have shared this season with you, you may have introduced me extra love, extra life and most of all renewed my energy,” she wrote within the caption. “It’s a lot simpler taking life’s twists, turns and take a look at laying down, however you, your brother and your sister have proven me why it’s price it to push via!”

Cardi B and Offset, whose delivery names are Belcalis Almanzar and Kiari Cephus respectively, have two youngsters collectively: 6-year-old daughter Kulture and 2-year-old son Wave.

The hip-hop energy couple — Offset is understood for his position within the rap group Migos and his profitable solo profession — have been secretly wed on Sept. 20, 2017, in Atlanta. They solely introduced their engagement a month later.

In 2020, Cardi B beforehand filed for divorce from Offset, claiming her marriage was “irretrievably damaged.”

From Charleston Chew to Swedish Fish, the 2024 Summer time Olympics have worldwide taste, due to Ellis Dawson. You could possibly even say he’s a Life Saver for Crew USA. 

You might not know Dawson’s identify, however he has gained notoriety amongst Olympic viewers for his function because the “sweet man.” Sure, Dawson has been noticed hauling sweet to offer out to members of the USA males’s basketball workforce. He’s additionally in command of uniforms and different issues, however he says sweet is the massive job.

“That is crucial factor for our guys,” he stated on TODAY on Aug. 1. “One in all my roles is simply to be sure that we’ve all the pieces prepared.”

Dawson stated Daybreak Staley, who coached the ladies’s workforce to gold on the postponed 2020 Summer time Olympics in Tokyo, loves Werther’s Unique, however he didn’t single out which sweet is LeBron James’ favourite.

“He form of varies,” he stated. “He form of goes along with his mode and his temper.”

Dawson went viral July 31 after he was featured in a short video on NBC Sports activities’ TikTok carrying Tupperware containers filled with sweet, together with a Ziploc stuffed with sweets in the course of the U.S. males’s basketball workforce’s victory over South Sudan.

“USA basketball’s sweet man is the hero we didn’t know we would have liked,” the clip was captioned.

“The place was this place on profession day?” somebody joked within the feedback, whereas a number of different individuals famous his resemblance to “Bob the Cap Catcher,” a person who went viral for retrieving a swim cap in the course of the ladies’s 100-meter breaststroke preliminary race July 28.

A New Mexico native who has labored with the NBA’s Orlando Magic, Dawson is a stalwart of USA Basketball, having labored for the group since 2005 when he was introduced on as a supervisor of aggressive applications. In 2009, he was promoted to assistant director, nationwide workforce operations and is presently listed as director, nationwide groups operations.

“As assistant director, nationwide workforce operations, Dawson assists in all sides of the boys’s and girls’s aggressive applications, together with participant personnel and basketball operations throughout trials, coaching camps and competitions,” his biography on the USA Basketball website reads.

“Moreover, he assists with the workforce outfitting; coordinates attire stock and video tools; maintains the USA Basketball video library; in addition to assists in coordinating the USA Basketball Officers Program.”

Crew USA swimmer Katie Ledecky received one more Olympic gold on Wednesday throughout the girls’s 1500-meter freestyle race, additional solidifying her place in swimming historical past because the Best Of All Time (GOAT).

In the event you missed the Bethesda native leaving everybody else within the pool meters behind, you may catch the highlights right here. (Sadly, the highlights do not embrace the truth that the cameraman actually needed to zoom out to get the opposite swimmers within the shot by the top of the race.)

Her 2024 Paris Olympics efficiency broke the Olympic report for quickest race within the girls’s 1500m freestyle occasion. It might be bittersweet for the earlier holder of that report, besides… effectively, that was additionally Ledecky.

That received us questioning… what number of different information does Katie Ledecky maintain?

Here is an inventory of Katie Ledecky’s medals, information, superlatives and different spectacular swimming accomplishments. (Don’t be concerned, we’ll replace this piece with new accomplishments Katie earns all through the remainder of the video games.)

What number of Olympic medals does Katie Ledecky have?

Ledecky made her Olympic debut in 2012 on the London Olympics, then went on to swim within the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Paris is her fourth Olympic look.

In that point, Ledecky has received a whopping 12 Olympic medals, together with Wednesday’s 1500m victory. That race was her eighth gold medal. Here is the breakdown:

• 2012 London: Gold medal, 800m freestyle (her solely occasion that Olympics)
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 200m freestyle
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 400m freestyle
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 800m freestyle
• 2016 Rio: Gold medal, 4x200m freestyle relay
• 2016 Rio: Silver medal, 4x100m freestyle relay
• 2020 Tokyo: Gold medal, 800m freestyle
• 2020 Tokyo: Gold medal, 1500m freestyle
• 2020 Tokyo: Silver medal, 400m freestyle
• 2020 Tokyo: Silver medal, 4x200m freestyle relay
• 2024 Paris: Bronze medal, 400m freestyle
• 2024 Paris: Gold medal, 1500m freestyle

And Ledecky is not executed but. Thursday brings the 4x200m freestyle relay occasion, the place she’s more likely to win one other medal and change into the most-decorated U.S. girl within the Olympics. Protection begins at 2:30 p.m. ET on NBC, Peacock and NBCOlympics.com.

The one different feminine swimmer to match Ledecky in gold medals is Jenny Thompson, the U.S. swimmer who competed in 1992, 1996 and 2000.

Thompson and Ledecky are, as of Wednesday, neck-and-neck for many gold medals from a feminine Olympic swimmer from any nation.

Ledecky can also be just one medal behind the report for probably the most medals of all time from a U.S. athlete in girls’s swimming. Ought to Ledecky medal within the 4x200m freestyle relay on Thursday, her 13 medals will put her in that high tier alongside Thompson, Dana Torres and Natalie Coughlin.

Michael Phelps nonetheless holds the report for many Olympic medals of all time, with a whopping 23 Olympic golds, based on NBC Olympics.

Report instances

Ledecky holds world information in two occasions, and has damaged world information over a dozen instances, based on NBC Olympics.

And keep in mind how her 1500m freestyle race broke her personal Olympic report? That is occurred a majority of the time Ledecky has damaged a swimming report.

In whole, Ledecky owns the 20 quickest instances within the girls’s 1500m freestyle occasion’s historical past. And it is no marvel, since she does issues like successful her preliminary warmth by 17.83 seconds.

Ledecky additionally holds the world report within the 800m freestyle occasion.

Has anybody ever crushed Katie Ledecky?

With regards to world championships and the Olympics, Katie Ledecky is, so far, unbeaten within the the 800m freestyle and within the 1500m freestyle.

In Tokyo, Australian Ariarne Titmus beat Ledecky within the 400m freestyle by about half a second. Titmus additionally beat Ledecky, and Canada’s Summer season McIntosh, within the 400m freestyle in Paris on Saturday.

In accordance with NBC Olympics, Katie Ledecky “is comfortably the best distance swimmer of all time, no matter gender.” No swimmer comes near her report in occasions above 400m.

Not a superlative, however nonetheless cool

For her, frankly, astonishing swimming accomplishments, President Joe Biden awarded Katie Ledecky the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier this 12 months.

It is the very best civilian honor in the US, and Ledecky joined the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Yeoh and Al Gore when she acquired the award in Could.

And in different cool Ledecky details, NBC Sports activities did the mathematics and came upon that she’s swum over 37 million meters in her lifetime — round 23,000 miles.

Meaning for those who add up Ledecky’s time swimming — as an age group swimmer as a baby, throughout her follow time occasions, in her world championship races, her time within the Olympics and her coaching — she has swum about so far as the circumference of the Earth.

Put one other approach, Katie Ledecky may have swum one-tenth of the best way to the moon by now.