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Sports on TV for August 2 – 3

By The Associated Press (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Saturday, August 2 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. FS1 — AFL: Brisbane at Collingwood 1 a.m. (Sunday) FS2 — AFL: Port Adelaide at Geelong AUTO RACING 6:25 a.m. ESPNU — Formula 1: Practice, Hungaroring, Mogyorod, Hungary 9:55 a.m. ESPN2 — Formula

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WNBA Glance

All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB New York 17 10 .630 — Atlanta 17 11 .607 ½ Indiana 16 12 .571 1½ Washington 13 14 .481 4 Chicago 7 20 .259 10 Connecticut 5 21 .192 11½ WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Minnesota 23 5 .821 — Phoenix 16 11 .593

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Sports on TV for August 4 – 10

By The Associated Press Adv02-03 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, August 4 LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL 9 a.m. ESPN — Little League World Series Regional: TBD, New England Region, Bristol, Conn. 11 a.m. ESPN — Little League World Series Regional: TBD, Southeast Region, Warner Robins, Ga. 1 p.m. ESPN — Little

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Democrats launching summer blitz to press Republicans on Trump spending plan

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats are launching a nationwide summer blitz designed to force vulnerable Republicans to defend President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill — especially Medicaid cuts that will leave millions of Americans without health care coverage. Republican leaders in Washington, meanwhile, have

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Putin says Russia’s hypersonic missile has entered service and will be deployed in Belarus

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia has started production of its newest hypersonic missiles and reaffirmed its plans to deploy them to ally Belarus later this year. Sitting alongside Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Valaam Island near St. Petersburg, Putin said the military already has selected

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Appeals court in Bosnia confirms sentence for Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik

By AMER COHADZIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — An appeals court in Bosnia-Herzegovina confirmed Friday an earlier court ruling that sentenced the pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president, Milorad Dodik, to one year in prison and banned him from politics for six years over his separatist actions as tensions mount in the fragile Balkan state. Dodik

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Pakistan’s rights group demands withdrawal of terror charges against a 7-year-old boy in Balochistan

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s independent human rights commission on Friday called on authorities to drop terrorism charges against a 7-year-old boy, a day after police in the southwestern province of Balochistan sought his arrest for sharing an anti-government speech by a rights activist on social media. The case has

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US envoy visits aid site in Gaza run by Israeli-backed group that has been heavily criticized

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAM METZ and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy on Friday visited a food distribution site in the Gaza Strip operated by an Israeli-backed American contractor whose efforts to deliver food to the hunger-stricken territory have been marred by violence and controversy.

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AP-Scorecard

TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE ___ INTERLEAGUE Final Chicago Cubs 1 Baltimore 0 Final Philadelphia 5 Detroit 4 Final L.A. Dodgers 5 Tampa Bay 0 Final Miami 13 N.Y. Yankees 12 Final Athletics 5 Arizona 1 ___ AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Kansas City 9 Toronto 3 Final Boston 2 Houston 1 Final Cleveland 3 Minnesota 2 Final Chicago

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Nebraska Daybook

Associated Press Nebraska Daybook for Friday, Aug. 01. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Omaha bureau is reachable at 402-391-0031. Send daybook items to Nebraska@applanner.com. To see

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