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Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. Incident Summary: On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, during the 3m springboard preliminaries at the Olympic Games in Paris, American diver Alison Gibson faced an unfortunate incident that led to a score of 0.0. Competing to secure a place in the semi-finals, the 25-year-old Texas-born athlete experienced a collision with the diving board that significantly impacted her performance.

Heart-Stopping Moment: Alison Gibson’s Dive Ends in Disaster at the 2024 Olympics

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PARIS — Americans played one electric quarter of basketball on Friday and that was more than enough to send them to the women’s gold medal game. Jackie Young, A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart and Copper Kahleah all scored in double figures as the U.S. cruised to a 85-64 victory over Australia in a semifinal game at Bercy Arena.

U.S. women blow out Australia, advance to gold medal basketball game

The Spun

Former U.S. President Barack Obama is one of many Americans who is proud of the United States national basketball team for their performance in the Olympics. After the U.S. claimed gold over France in the men's tournament final earlier today, the 44th President took to X and wrote about how proud ...

Barack Obama Has Message For Team USA After Gold Medal Win

Mallory Swanson scores to put U.S. up 1-0 in gold medal match

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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.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

A popular influencer apologized this week for her past racist posts on social media, prompting outrage from some Black creators who say they are tired of white creators constantly having their previous racist behavior unearthed without significant repercussions. Brooke Schofield, who has built a following of 2.2 million on TikTok...

Brooke Schofield apologized for her racist tweets. Black creators say it’s not enough.

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The Harris campaign is touting its crowd sizes at rallies as a new poll shows a change in the race’s momentum in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. But the campaign is also facing questions connected to Governor Tim Walz’s service in the National Guard. NBC News’ Aaron Gilchrist reports.

New poll shows swing in key battleground states

San Francisco, CA

After wrapping up her multi-day battleground state tour, Vice President Kamala Harris will attend a major fundraiser in San Francisco on Sunday to court West Coast donors, some of whom had pulled their support for President Joe Biden after his poor debate performance in June. Harris will court Bay Area...

Harris to attend major San Francisco fundraiser Sunday with Nancy Pelosi

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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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Sandy Paws Rescue Inc., a foster-based rescue in Massachusetts, is still looking for a forever home for an adorable six-year-old French bulldog named Joannie. The local animal rescue explains: “Joannie was found as a stray extremely emaciated and less than half her current weight now. She was missing fur on her body, face and ears. She has been nursed back to health and is doing wonderfully. While her age and exact history is unknown, it is clear she has mothered more than enough litters in her short lifetime.”

Meet The "Extreme Snuggler" French Bulldog Still Looking For Love

Albuquerque, NM

Rangers at Grand Canyon found the body of a missing person earlier this week, marking the third death at the national park since July 31, officials said Thursday. The body of Leticia Castillo, 20, of Albuquerque, was discovered Tuesday 150 feet below an overlook on the canyon’s South Rim, the National Park Service said in a news release.

Missing person found dead at Grand Canyon, third fatality at national park in a week

Japan’s meteorological agency on Thursday issued its first-ever “megaquake advisory.”. The warning followed a 7.1-magnitude earthquake off the country’s southern coast. That raises the risk of an even larger quake on the Nankai Trough, an underwater subduction zone that scientists believe is capable of producing temblors up...

Why Japan issued its first-ever 'megaquake advisory' — and what that means

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Newly released police body cam video shows the chaotic moments just before the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania last month, with local police blaming the Secret Service for the security lapse. NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez reports.

Body cam video reveals more about the attempted assassination of Trump

YouTube’s former chief executive and long-time Google executive Susan Wojcicki died on Saturday at the age of 56 after a two-year battle with lung cancer. “It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan Wojcicki passing. My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after 2 years of living with non-small cell lung cancer,” Dennis Troper, Wojcicki’s husband, said in a Facebook post.

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies at 56 of lung cancer

Tampa, FL

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Three men and a woman have been arrested on murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Charles Jones , a Jacksonville rapper known as Julio Foolio,” outside a hotel in Tampa.

4 arrested in slaying of Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio

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Local officials and advocates in California are divided over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent executive order requiring state agencies to remove homeless encampments on public property, leaving the homeless community caught in the middle and uncertain where they will go. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that punishing homeless people...

'It’s mayhem and craziness': Californians react to Gavin Newsom’s order to remove homeless encampments

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Hollywood child stardom has taken its toll on many actors through the decades. Lani O'Grady, for one, found fame in the 1970s on the TV family series, Eight is Enough. O'Grady followed in the footsteps of her brother, actor Don Grady, an original Mouseketeer and member of another popular TV family show: My Three Sons. Their mother, Mary B. Grady, was a talent agent who represented several child actors. But Lani, who would also eventually become an agent, died in 2001 just one week before what would have been her 47th birthday.

TV's 'Eight is Enough' Star Lani O'Grady Found Fame Early in Life but Died a Tragic Death

New York City, NY

Famed magician David Copperfield has been hit with a lawsuit accusing him of neglecting his upscale Manhattan condo and leaving it in such disrepair that it has caused over $2 million in damages to the building and neighboring units. The board of the Galleria Condominium, a luxurious 55-story complex on...

Lawsuit accuses magician David Copperfield of trashing his luxury New York City condo

U.S. women's 4x100m relay team erupts down the stretch

Del Rio, TX

Shelters on the southern U.S. border and in some major cities that were inundated with migrants a year ago say they are seeing sharp declines in migrants seeking refuge, some reporting drops as high as 60% in just the past few months. In July, the White House said that the...

'Drastically less': The number of migrants in border towns and some big U.S. cities has plunged

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Curry: First Olympic gold medal is 'insane' feeling

Minutes after his late 3-pointer barrage sealed gold for the U.S. men's...

Curry: First Olympic gold medal is 'insane' feeling

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