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Simone Biles has given Hoda Kotb a special title: "gymnastics Olympic mother." Biles introduced the TODAY co-anchor as such when Hoda conducted an exclusive interview with her and the four other gymnasts — Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera — who will compete as the U.S. women’s gymnastics team at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

EXCLUSIVE: Simone Biles explains to Team USA that Hoda Kotb is the ‘gymnastics Olympic mother'

Eugene, OR

Connecticut Public

EUGENE, Ore. — Olympians were born and a world record was broken. The U.S. Olympics Track and Field team is finalized after a 10-day meet at Hayward Field. It offered a preview of the prowess to come when the Paris Games start up in less than month. Here are...

Highlights and heartbreak at the U.S. Olympics track trials

The women’s U.S. Olympics gymnastics team has been announced. The five women competing on Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games are Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa (Suni) Lee, and Hezley Rivera. The two alternates to travel to Paris to train with the women are Joscelyn...

Meet The Women’s U.S. Olympic Gymnastic Team

Minneapolis, MN

The U.S. women's gymnastics team full roster was announced at the trials in Minneapolis. Simone Biles returns for her third Olympics, joined by fellow veterans Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey. Olympics newcomer Hezly Rivera also joins the squad.

Watch: U.S. women's gymnastics team presented ahead of Paris

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

Uvalde, TX

Two years after 19 children and two teachers were killed at a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, a grand jury there has indicted the former school police chief of Robb Elementary, Pete Arredondo. School Police Officer Adrian Gonzales has also been charged. The indictments center on the men's role in the botched response to the shooting, when 376 officers waited for more than an hour to confront the gunman. Texas Public Radio's Kayla Padilla has been reporting on Uvalde and joins us now. Good afternoon.

School police chief is indicted over 2022 Uvalde school shooting response

New York City, NY

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The e-Texan

New York – As Trump anticipates his sentencing on July 11th in the New York hush money case, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon made a ruling this Monday. Despite rejecting Trump’s legal team's request to dismiss several charges in the classified documents case, she conceded on a minor point. She removed a portion of the charges that referenced an uncharged allegation, but upheld the other charges.

Legal expert says Trump should not be jailed after New York guilty verdict because he is ‘too old’

Total Apex Sports & Entertainment

Conflicts are inevitable in life as we have different opinions. Some zodiac signs are good at arguing while others strive to create harmony and avoid arguments. Yet, conflict resolution is a crucial skill at home and work. It helps people live peacefully and in unity.

5 Zodiac Signs Who Are Most Likely to Win Arguments

Louisiana State

BATON ROUGE, La. — Even as a legal challenge is already underway over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of how the mandate will be implemented and enforced remain murky. Across the country there have been conservative pushes to incorporate...

How will Louisiana's Ten Commandments classroom requirement be funded and enforced?

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Hartford, CT

July 6 marks the 80th remembrance of the deadliest single building or building complex fire in Connecticut history. The infamous Hartford Circus Fire happened on July 6, 1944. An estimated 168 people died that day, and experts say there were almost certainly more who lost their lives. Natalie Belanger, a...

80 years ago, a gas-soaked roof and WWII created a perfect storm for the Hartford circus tragedy

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Hanover, NH

State health officials are investigating a possible measles exposure in the Upper Valley. Vermont and New Hampshire health officials say there are currently no confirmed cases of the measles in either state. But New Hampshire’s public health division is looking into a report of an international traveler contracting measles shortly...

Health officials warn of possible measles exposure in Upper Valley

Greenwich, CT

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Thursday was officially ordered by his local inland wetlands agency to replant more than 180 trees and thousands of bushes that were chopped down in November on property behind the Democrat's Greenwich home. While one of Lamont's neighbors and a neighborhood organization were also involved...

Connecticut governor to replant more than 180 trees, thousands of bushes cut down behind his house

Durango, CO

In early May, just a few weeks before graduation, Zoe Ramsey and Niko Peterson were sitting in an unlit, empty classroom at Animas High School in Durango, Colo., sorting through photos on a laptop. The two high school seniors were wrapping up work on a two-page yearbook spread of words...

A friend's overdose death turns high school students to activists

What makes a zodiac sign high maintenance? Needing extra attention can make someone high maintenance. Uncontrollable emotional roller coasters can make someone high maintenance. Demanding others more than they can give can make someone high maintenance. Needing all of the attention all or most of the time can make someone high maintenance.

5 Zodiac Signs That Are High Maintenance

Missouri State

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CJ Coombs

The first time my family walked into a Ponderosa Steakhouse was in the late 1960s. It was new and the experience was great. Like other new restaurants, if the management doesn't stay on top, the quality of service can decline. The location we went to did change through the years, but in the beginning, it was great.

The 1960s: the Ponderosa and Bonanza Steakhouses are still around in some states

Denver, CO

David Heitz

The mother of a Denver homeless man told the City Council Monday that city-sponsored services have failed her son. Barbara Hallick Yeomans made her remarks during public comment period of the City Council meeting. She said her son grapples with substance abuse and mental illness and repeatedly has been harassed by police. She said her son also suffered verbal abuse by a guard in the Denver County Jail. Yeomans said she heard the guard harassing her son over the phone.

Mother says Denver homeless services have failed her son

Summer is upon us, and with it brings beaches, sunshine and many new Connecticut laws. The General Assembly passed over 170 bills in its 2024 regular session, and an omnibus bill during its special session in late June. Starting July 1, dozens of those laws – including some from previous...

July 1 marks the start of over 90 new laws in CT. Here are some to know about

WyoFile

Within hours of the sighting on Wednesday, Frank van Manen caught word that there was a grizzly sow with five cubs in tow spotted in Yellowstone National Park. Five cubs following mom is so unlikely that van Manen, who leads the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, pondered an explanation.

Five grizzly bear cubs make the largest litter in Yellowstone-area history

Vermont State

Starting this week, Vermont 211 is back to 24/7 service. The state-funded service, run through the nonprofit United Ways of Vermont, refers callers to health and housing resources. For the past year, Vermont 211 had limited hours due to budget cuts — the service was available between 8 a.m. and...

Vermont 211 restores 24/7 service thanks to extra funds in this year's state budget

Know how you can tell if women’s sports has finally broken into the American mainstream consciousness? When your 82-year-old grandmother-in-law tells you, “They’ve been showing a lot more girls basketball on television these days.”. With viewership for women’s basketball at an all-time high, "Power of the Dream"...

The WNBA is having a moment. A new documentary highlights off-court player activism

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The gymnasts who will represent the U.S. at the Olympics have been chosen

Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles is heading to her third Olympics. She is looking to cap her remarkable comeback after pulling out of some events at the...

The gymnasts who will represent the U.S. at the Olympics have been chosen

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