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S.D. American Legion All-Star Games

BRANDON, S.D. — Team Black swept two games from Team Red in the South Dakota Baseball Coaches Association’s American Legion All-Star Baseball games on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. The games […]

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FILE - Crosses are surrounded by flowers and other mementos at a memorial, June 9, 2022, for the victims of a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Uvalde school records show teenage gunman’s spiral before 2022 shooting

School district officials have released text messages, personnel files and student records of the shooter from the 2022 attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 students and two teachers. Monday’s document release follows a yearslong legal battle over public access to the material. Media organizations, including The Associated Press, had sued the district and county in 2022 for the release of their records. It is not the public’s first glimpse inside the slow law enforcement response to the shooting. Last year, city officials in Uvalde released police body camera videos from their officers and 911 calls.

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

FACT FOCUS: Trump exaggerates, misstates facts on Washington crime

In justifying a federal take over of policing in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump claims that crime in the capital city is on the rise and that homicide rates in 2023 were the highest ever seen. Neither is true, as the city’s own crime statistics show. Violent crime did spike in 2023 following the pandemic, but instances of violent crime have fallen in the intervening years. The city recently recorded a 26% drop in violent crime last year. Trump also said homicide data from decades ago isn’t available, but records from the 1980s and 1990s show the number of homicides routinely exceeded the numbers seen today.

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The New York Post is seen at a newsstand in Manhattan, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz)

Post to Coast: New York Post plans a California newspaper

The New York Post is launching a California tabloid newspaper and news site next year. The company announced the plan Monday. The California Post will add another title to Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. And the new paper stands to bring an assertive, irreverent and conservative-friendly fixture of the Big Apple media landscape to the Golden State. Plans for the Los Angeles-based paper call for a print edition seven days a week, plus a website, social media accounts and videos and audio pieces. The venture is being launched into a turbulent atmosphere for the news business. But the Post expects its voice, editorial lens and coverage will be a hit in California.

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Superman stars David Corenswet, center, Rachel Brosnahan, left, and writer, director, and producer James Gunn pose with fans during the first stop of the Superman World Tour in Pasig city, Philippines on Thursday June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

‘Superman’ and DC Studios fly to a $122 million opening

In a bid to kickoff a new era for DC Studios, James Gunn’s “Superman” opened with $122 million in U.S. and Canada ticket sales over the weekend. DC and Warner Bros. had a lot riding on “Superman.” The superheroes of DC have recently found mostly kryptonite in theaters. Films like “Joker: Folie à Deux,” “The Flash” and “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” all flopped. But “Superman” is intended as a new start. It’s the first release fully steered by Gunn and Peter Safran since they were handed the keys to DC’s superhero cinematic universe. The roughly on-target opening was the third largest of 2025. Ticket sales were relatively soft for “Superman” overseas. In 78 international markets, it grossed $95 million.

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Big plans, hopes cut short for 4 slain Idaho students in 2022

The four University of Idaho students found stabbed to death at a rental home near campus on Nov. 13, 2022, were all friends and members of the university’s Greek system. The killings of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin left many of their classmates and residents reeling with grief and fear. Autopsies showed the four were all likely asleep when they were attacked. Some had defensive wounds and each was stabbed multiple times. A lawyer for one victim’s family has said that 30-year-old Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to killing the four students as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty.

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FILE - A view of a laptop shows an X sign-in page and logo, in Belgrade, Serbia, July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Musk’s X sues New York over requirement to show how social media platforms handle problematic posts

Elon Musk’s X has sued to try to stop New York from requiring reports on how social media platforms define and handle problematic posts. The company sued Tuesday, after successfully challenging a similar measure in California. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed her state’s legislation late last year. The law is poised to take effect later this year. X maintains that the measure impinges on free speech rights and on a 1996 federal law that lets internet platforms moderate posts as they see fit. New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office hasn’t immediately responded to a request for comment on the lawsuit.

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Benfica's Renato Sanches, left, and Boca Juniors' Alan Velasco confront each other during the Club World Cup group C soccer match between Boca Juniors and Benfica in Miami Gardens, Fla., Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Boca Juniors, Benfica draw 2-2 in Club World Cup match that includes 3 red cards, 22 fouls

Benfica overcame a two-goal deficit, getting Ángel Di María’s penalty kick in first-half stoppage time and Nicolás Otamendi’s 84th-minute goal for a 2-2 draw against Boca Juniors on Monday night in a heated Club World Cup match that included three red cards, four yellows and 22 fouls. Boca Juniors played in a home-like environment with the Argentine club’s supporters making up most of the 55,574 crowd at Hard Rock Stadium against one of Portugal’s premier teams. Both teams finished a man short and one Boca player was ejected after he was substituted from the match.

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Musk says Tesla’s robotaxi service to ‘tentatively’ launch in Austin on June 22

Elon Musk says Tesla is “tentatively” set to begin providing robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, on June 22. In a post on his X social media platform, Musk said the date could change because Tesla is being extra cautious when it comes to safety. Investors, Wall Street analysts and Tesla enthusiasts have been anticipating the rollout of the driverless cabs since Musk said earlier this year that the service would launch in Austin sometime in June. Musk has said he expected to initially run 10 or so taxis, increase that number rapidly and start offering the service in Los Angeles, San Antonio, San Francisco and other cities.

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