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Obama grants clemency to 214, the most in 1 day since 1900

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Serena and Venus Williams lose Olympic doubles match for 1st time

They lost key points in the first set, succumbing to the Czech pair 6-3. And they had zero wins between them in Olympic doubles competition, going a combined 0-...

Furyk sets PGA Tour record with round of 58

Having missed the early part of this season following wrist surgery, which included him being unable to play in the Masters, Furyk's latter part of the season h...

Cubs rally to win 5-4 on wild pitch against Marlins

Christian Yelich got the scoring started in the first inning, when he doubled to left, scoring Dee Gordon. Since the All-Star break, the Cubs have scored 52 ru...

Mariners, Iwakuma throttle Red Sox

Pomeranz gave up five earned runs in his last start against the Angels. Shaw's 386-foot drive to right was his 13th homer of the season. "I don't know. Iwakuma ...

Team Refugee athlete Yusra Mardini wins her 100m butterfly heat

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Rio 2016 success would be among my highest achievements, insists Novak Djokovic

Earlier in the day, Del Potro was caught up in an incident which went viral as he was trapped in a lift at the Olympic village and had to be rescued by the Arg...

Trump ends suspense endorses Ryan and McCain

Most prominently, Ryan criticized the Republican presidential nominee's call for a ban on Muslim migration to the US, and said that Trump's attack on a fe...

Benintendi's big game a positive for Boston at end of trip

Segedin came up again with two outs in the fifth and the bases loaded, and he lined a single to right to give the Dodgers a 6-2 lead. Ortiz left in the sixth ...

Shai Hope replaces Chandrika in WI squad for third Test

Chase's gritty knock saw him write his name in the record books as he became the first West Indies player since the legendary Garfield Sobers to take a five-w...

Pogba set for Man United medical before completing world record move

Pogba had been due to report for Juve training on Monday, but that is unlikely to happen after the breakthrough in talks over his fee. The transfer saga had s...

I'll blow Gatlin away - Bolt

A year ago Bolt was hailed as the saviour of athletics after beating Justin Gatlin , twice convicted of doping offences, in the world championships 100m. He di...

West Ham United 3-0 NK Domzale (agg 4-2)

West Ham will not want to break the bank for a defender who is unlikely to get much game time when Cresswell returns around Christmas. More work is needed, and...

Man found dead near Maracana Stadium during Olympics opening ceremony

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United States and China Favorites to Win Most Gold at Rio Olympics

But Dr. Julia Bredtmann, an economist at the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research in Essen, has made a prediction medal table based on countries population a...

Edwards wins Watkins Glen Sprint Cup pole

Were just taking it one evaluation at a time. It's frustrating, but it's the process. "Just to get right". I just have to do what they tell me. "It's really h...

Knox wins Travelers after history-making 58 from Furyk

That made Furyk the 11th golfer in PGA Tour history to shoot 27 for a nine - but 27 isn't the tour's 9-hole scoring record. Knox, just the third worldwide pla...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic celebrates win in Man Utd dressing room

Check out the best pics of United's celebrations in our gallery above . United, who confirmed in an official statement before the match that Juventus have gi...

RIO 2016: Carlin soars into Olympic final

She ran into a buzz saw in Hungary's Katinka Hosszu, who shattered the world record in the women's 400 IM by more than two seconds, an astounding margin, to win...

Canadian Penny Oleksiak wins silver in 100 M butterfly

But her emotions ran higher when she stood poolside cheering Ms. Oleksiak during the final leg. If you can keep your head around all these people that you mig...

GST Bill to be taken up in Lok Sabha today

The Bill that amends the constitution to enable the GST reform was passed by the Rajya Sabha with a unanimous majority, after AIADMK staged a walkout last week....

Leslie Jones Continues Her Amazing Olympics Commentary!

Her tweets are so entertaining, that Jim Bell, executive producer of the Olympics, has invited her to join NBC in Rio. Jones quit Twitter only a few weeks...

Rio 2016 Olympics: Rugby sevens quarter-finals

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Punjab BJP to meet Badal, demand action

The senior Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) leader was shifted to the Hero Heart DMC Hospital in Ludhiana under heavy security. His condition was stated to be ...

Liverpool thrashes Barcelona 4-0, Mane gets his 1st goal

There was more bad news for Liverpool as Marko Grujic , who scored against Barcelona with a superb header, limped off with an ankle injury in the first hal...

SKorean women win 8th straight Olympic gold in team archery

South Korea has never lost in women's archery team competition since the discipline was adopted as an official Olympic program at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. The ...

The late Ken Stabler inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame

The Raiders finished seven consecutive seasons with winning records with Stabler under center. That night, I wanted to make sure I would make it to the Hall o...

#ReadySetRio: Williams sisters shocked in first round

Gavrilova, ranked No. 27 in the world, broke Williams' serve twice in the first set and exasperated the 22-time Grand Slam victor. Zheng, whose previous Olympic...

Palace to Hidilyn Diaz: Philippines proud of you

The weightlifter, 25, is the first Filipino woman to win an Olympic medal, as well as the country's first for weightlifting. Tawain's gold medallist Hsu Shu-C...

Exciting finish in women's 400m freestyle

It was never a matter of if, just a matter of when: Katie Ledecky won her first individual gold of the 2016 Rio Olympics in world record time on Sunday night....

US flagbearer Michael Phelps leads team into Olympics opening ceremony

Fidalgo, an auctioneer from Sao Paulo, said he had a late night after attending the opening ceremony, and arrived Saturday when the line was at its peak. A gr...

Andy Murray Not Worried About Zika Ahead of Rio Olympics

Murray has said he is "100% focused on winning" in Rio , his third Olympic Games. Finally, talking about the high profile withdrawals from the event, most sp...

United's failure to sign Pogba could dent morale: Ferdinand

But we are working hard and the players are trying everything. "Normally next week we will have our squad closed". Mourinho - who has also signed Eric Bailly,...

Police and protesters clash in Rio anti-Olympic showdown

Meanwhile, with regards to the budget of the ceremony, director Meirelles said that costs were kept at a minimum due to Brazil's recession. Despite the resent...

Mets says golf didn't cause Cespedes to go on DL

We've entered the third season of the annual South Point-lined Play of the Day competition, effective July 1. Sleep well Jason Bay, eh, Jay Bruce. With Bran...