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Team USA won 126 medals at the Paris Olympics — see how each was won



The Paris Games came to a close on Sunday with the Americans atop the medal count. 

The two weeks in the French capital marked the first Summer Games unaffected by COVID since Rio 2016, and one of the most successful Olympics ever for Team USA, which tied China with 40 gold medals and 126 medals overall. 

There was no shortage of memorable moments, but here are 10 that stuck in our mind. 

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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...

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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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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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Kate Jackson began her acting career as a silent ghost on TV's classic 1960s gothic daytime drama Dark Shadows but remains alive and well years after two horrific battles with breast cancer. Jackson went on to small screen prime-time stardom on police/detective/crime drama/comedies like The Rookies, Charlie's Angels, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and more. This is her triumphant story.

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You wait ages for a Yorkshire-set folk-horror dripping with grief and dread, and then two come along at once. First, there was The Moor, a melancholy, subtly supernatural tale of grief and dread set in motion by the death of a young boy; Starve Acre, however... well, same but it’s the ’70s and has bigger stars.

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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.”

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Sure, catching the Northern Lights is something that’s on most of our bucket lists, but meteor showers promise a pretty spectacular show as well, and capturing them might not involve donning seven layers and travelling to an icy landscape. Tonight, August 12, is when NASA predicts the annual Perseid...

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2024 was the year of Girl Power for the United States at the Olympics. With the Paris Olympics officially drawing to a close on Sunday, the United States ended up with a share of first place in total gold medals, winning 40 of them to tie China for the most by any nation. The U.S....
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Chloe, a 9 to 10-week-old puppy, is the last of her litter and is eagerly looking for a forever home. Sandy Paws Rescue Inc., a dedicated foster-based rescue in Massachusetts, recently shared Chloe's story and her endearing qualities.

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Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., from 1985 until being laid off in July 2013. He still draws several cartoons a week and distributes them through his own syndicate. Through Heller Syndication, his cartoons regularly appear in more than 400 newspapers, making him the most successful self-syndicated editorial cartoonist in the nation. His cartoons are reprinted many times in USA Today, Denver Post, St. Paul Pioneer Press, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek Japan, The Week and The Washington Post. Joe’s cartoons have won numerous distinctions, including 10 Best of Gannett awards, eight Milwaukee Press Club awards and two Honorable mentions for the John Fischetti Award. He lives in Green Bay with his wife, Pamela. He is a regular featured cartoonist for the NKyTribune .

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The remote beaches of NSW are some of our state’s most stunning, but when disaster strikes, being on an unpatrolled beach is less ideal. To make beach days at these unspoiled coastal spots even more special, the government has installed Emergency Response Beacons at eight of the state’s most popular (and dangerous) unpatrolled beaches, including Gordons Bay, Mahon Pool, North Palm Beach and Turimetta, all here in Sydney.

These 8 high-risk NSW and Sydney beaches just became safer to swim at

Inspired by a leading exponent of Urban Exploring, aka UrbEx, who has just written a book on the subject, the BBC has just published a list of the 12 most fascinating abandoned buildings in the world, including the Kupari complex outside Dubrovnik. Recently in the news due to its upcoming...

Dubrovnik’s Kupari features among world’s most fascinating abandoned buildings

The Independent

Team GB athletes are set to return home after a successful Paris Olympics.Sunday evening saw Team GB’s athletes cheer and wave Union flags as they entered the closing ceremony wearing Hawaiian-style shirts showing the emblems of every nation in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.Some, including Tom Daley, were seen taking selfies and filming on their phones.Gold medallists Alex Yee and Bryony Page walked out as Great Britain’s flagbearers.The ceremony also saw Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise delight the crowds in Stade de France as he descended into the stadium from the roof before greeting Olympians in the crowd.Great Britain ended...

Team GB athletes set to return home after successful Paris Olympics

The Sydney Harbour foreshore is already our city's pearl, and the 9km Foreshore Walk (from Pyrmont to Woolloomooloo) will soon be jazzed up with a number of oyster-themed art installations – in an effort to help visitors to the area build a deeper connection to Country. The latest installation...

Interactive new sculptures will line the 9km Sydney Harbour foreshore walking track

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SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — For three straight Olympics, nobody born outside of Africa had even come close to finishing on the podium in the women’s 10,000 meters. Italy’s Nadia Battocletti put an end to that streak Friday night at the Paris Games, claiming silver in an event that had come to be dominated by Kenyans, Ethiopians and runners from those countries representing other nations.

Italy’s Nadia Battocletti breaks Africa’s stranglehold on 10,000-meter podium with a silver in Paris

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