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Tom Cruise holding Olympic flag Getty Image   While Paris 2024 chose surfing, climbing, skateboarding and breakdancing, Los Angeles 2028 has wiped the slate clean to introduce five different sports to its Olympic Games program. Each Olympic host city can choose several additional sports on top of the traditional fixed program. For Paris 2024, it […]
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The Five New Sports That Will Be Featured At The 2028 Olympics In Los Angeles

PARIS -- Paris has closed out two and a half extraordinary weeks of Olympic sports and emotion with a star-studded show in France’s national stadium. The French capital has handed over hosting duties for the Summer Games to the next city in line: Los Angeles in 2028. Hollywood star...

AP PHOTOS: Paris closes the 2024 Olympics with a final star-studded show

TheDailyBeast

With the Paris Olympics coming to an end in a spectacular closing ceremony on Sunday night, Donald Trump had something else on his mind: himself.The former president specifically posted on his Truth Social platform to take credit for the fact that the next Summer Games will take place in Los Angeles. “As President-Elect, I worked with the Olympic Organizing Committee of Los Angeles in getting the 2028 Olympics to come to the United States,” he wrote. “There was tremendous competition from other countries.”In November 2016, a spokeswoman for Los Angeles’ then-Mayor Eric Garcetti said Trump planned to support the city’s...

Trump Marks Olympic Closing Ceremony by Taking Credit for 2028 Games in Los Angeles

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The U.S., which became the first country to top 3,000 Olympic medals during the 2024 Summer Games, earned more medals in Paris than it did in Tokyo. Athletes from the U.S. took home 126 total medals this year, topping China (91), Britain (65) and France (64). China had been ahead in the race for gold throughout much of the games, but China and the U.S. both earned 40 apiece by the end of the games. In addition to 40 gold medals, the U.S. won 42 silver and 44 bronze medals. While the U.S. won the most medals, it isn't home to this...

How the U.S. did in the Paris Olympics compared to previous summer games

The Spun

The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France are wrapping up on Sunday, as just a couple of athletic events and the Closing Ceremony remains. Then, it's all eyes on Los Angeles and the 2028 Games. The City of Los Angeles has announced that there will be a no-tolerance policy on cars at the 2028 Summer ...

Los Angeles Reveals Zero-Tolerance Policy For The 2028 Olympics

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J. Souza

According to cruise industry reports, the world's largest cruise ship is sailing well above 100% capacity, thanks to more beds being filled on recent sailings. Royal Caribbean’s newest flagship, the Icon of the Seas, is proving to be an unprecedented success, with occupancy rates far exceeding expectations.

The Largest Cruise Ship in the World is Sailing at 132% Capacity: How This is Even Possible

South Carolina State

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Colleton County, SC

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

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Cape Girardeau, MO

CJ Coombs

The historic J. Maple and Grace Senne Wilson House is at 344 North Ellis Street in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. This two and a half story home was built in 1903-1904. On July 7, 2015, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The home is privately owned.

Built in 1903-1904: the J. Maple and Grace Senne Wilson House in Cape Girardeau, Missouri

The Independent

 It's Los Angeles' turn for the torch. Mayor Karen Bass accepted the Olympic flag at the Paris closing ceremony Sunday, before handing it off to a key representative of LA's local business — Tom Cruise — who in a pre-recorded trek via motorcycle, plane and parachute kicked off the countdown to 2028. The city will become the third in the world to host the games three times as it adds to the storied years of 1932 and 1984. Here's a look forward and back in time at the Olympics in LA.        ...

From Paris to Los Angeles: How the city is preparing for the 2028 Olympics

USA TODAY

Paris will bid farewell to the 2024 Summer Games and hand over the torch to Los Angeles. Here is what we know about the 2028 Summer Games.

Where are the 2028 Summer Olympics? What we know about Los Angeles 2028

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A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

‘I’ll never be wearing earrings for the rest of my life’: Customer warns against buying from Shein

PARIS -- The Olympics will always have Paris. Next up for the Summer Games: Los Angeles 2028. The baton will be handed from one third-time Olympic host city to another at the closing ceremony Sunday in Paris, and much will be different in four years’ time. New sports will...

After Paris Olympics shined, Los Angeles in 2028 brings new and returning sports, plus a fresh look

West Virginia State

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Actor Bob Denver, who passed away in 2005, will forever be remembered for his leading role on the classic 1960s sitcom Gilligan’s Island. Denver also played another famous TV character: the beatnik-type Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

TV's 'Gilligan Island' Stars Dawn Wells and Bob Denver and Their Controversy Behind the Scenes

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Saturday promised that the city was working to expand public transportation to the point that the 2028 Summer Olympics could be a "no-car" games when they come to town. She says that on top of the new transportation, she would encourage businesses to allow employees to work from home during the 17 days that the games were in the area, hopeful to avoid traffic jams. Bass is currently in Paris with other Los Angeles city officials to participate in the closing ceremonies for the 2024 Summer Olympics, where she will be given the Olympic flag before...

Mayor Bass promises "no-car games" when 2028 Summer Olympics come to Los Angeles

New York City, NY

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Jacksonville, FL

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The Wells Fargo name is gone from the Downtown skyline. The name atop the former Wells Fargo Center was removed Sunday . A helicopter flew away each of the 20 letters and deposited them at a lot across from the Maxwell House Coffee plant on East Bay Street.

Wells Fargo name removed from Downtown tower

After 16 action-packed days, Paris 2024 has reached its conclusion. It has delivered sporting drama by the bucketload, the emergence of new heroes, world records have been broken and plenty of history written. So what are the stats to savour from this Olympic Games? BBC Sport takes a look... Counting...

Paris Olympics: The best stats from the 2024 Games

Los Angeles County, CA

Actor Richard Deacon found fame on classic TV sitcoms such as The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS, 1961-1966), on which he played Mel Cooley, and Leave it to Beaver (CBS, 1957-1963), in which which he portrayed neihbor Fred Rutherford. Both characters were married to women, while Fred had a son.

The Secret Gay Life of Actor Richard Deacon ('Dick Van Dyke Show'): 30 Years After His Tragic Death

Chicago, IL

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

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(KTXL) – At 26, Fiona O’Keeffe is preparing to take on the world’s elite marathoners in Paris on Sunday. She’s aiming to break a decades-long drought for Team USA’s women, who haven’t secured Olympic marathon gold since the event’s inaugural race in 1984.

Fiona O’Keeffe won’t stop until she crosses the finish line at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Denver, CO

David Heitz

No, pallet shelters for people experiencing homelessness don’t fold into caskets. It’s a question a reader posed one of the first times I wrote about pallet shelters. I find the pallet shelters to be more palatable than ice fishing tents. The Colorado Village Collaborative operates both micro-communities and the so-called Safe Outdoor Spaces with the tents. We all learned the tents are not safe when a fire roared through a CVC Safe Outdoor Space, destroying the compound quickly. Officials never disclosed a cause of the fire.

Opinion: No, pallet shelters for homeless in Denver, Aurora don’t fold into caskets

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Will breaking be at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles?

PARIS (KNWA) — Breaking (or breakdancing) made its Olympic debut in Paris during the last two full days of competition, but don’t get used to seeing...

Will breaking be at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles?

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