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Jim Harbaugh focused on Chargers, won’t be Michigan captain Aug. 31
Jim Harbaugh won’t be returning to Michigan to serve as an honorary captain for the team’s season opener, Wolverines coach Sherrone Moore said today. Read more
Sleepless in Scotland: Lydia Ko waiting for golden reality to sink in
New Zealand’s Lydia Ko won a gold medal in the women’s Olympic golf competition in Paris on Saturday and immediately qualified for the LPGA Hall of Fame. Read more
Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu to receive disputed bronze
Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu will receive the bronze medal for her floor routine at the Paris Olympics on Friday in a ceremony in the capital city of Bucharest. Read more
McDonald’s France jokes about scrapping curry sauce after basketball loss to U.S.
McDonald’s France said it is considering taking curry sauce off its menus until the next Olympics in a joke protest over U.S. basketball team captain Stephen Curry, whose last-gasp heroics denied France gold at the Paris Games. Read more
Paris Olympics ratings up 82 percent over Tokyo Games
Viewership of the 2024 Paris Olympics averaged a combined 30.6 million per day for NBC Universal’s daytime and primetime coverage, an 82 percent increase from the 2020 Tokyo Games, the company said. Read more
Japan PM Kishida to step down as scandals prove too much
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he will step down in September, ending a three-year term marred by political scandals and paving the way for a new premier to address the impact of rising prices. Read more
Tua eager to get on the field during exhibition season
Two things stood out from Tua Tagovailoa’s news conference today: his availability for Saturday’s preseason game against the Washington Commanders and Odell Beckham Jr. Read more
Starbucks taps Chipotle’s Niccol as CEO in surprise move
Niccol replaces Laxman Narasimhan, whose tenure only lasted a year-and-a-half after he was originally brought in as CEO in March 2023 to engineer a “reinvention” of the world’s biggest coffee chain. Since then, the stock has continued to falter, losing nearly one-quarter of its value. Read more
Maui firefighters contain brush fire in Wailuku
Maui firefighters battled a brush fire in Wailuku that broke out this afternoon and contained it by 4 p.m., according to county officials. Read more
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Brazil plane crash victims being identified and flown home
A Brazilian Air Force KC-390 transport plane flew the remains of three passengers back to Cascavel in southern Brazil from where the aircraft had departed, and will continue to transport the bodies as they are released from the morgue. Read more
Harris to target price gouging in first policy speech
Harris will travel to Raleigh, in North Carolina, a state Democrats hope to flip this election, to outline her plan “to lower costs for middle-class families and take on corporate price-gouging,” her campaign said today. Read more
UAW files NLRB charges against Trump, Musk for alleged worker intimidation
Under federal law, workers cannot be fired for going on strike, and threatening to do so is illegal under the National Labor Relations Act, the UAW said in a statement. Read more
Overnight camping suspended at Oahu park over reckless behavior
The suspension will take place indefinitely, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of State Parks said. Read more
Alleged Maui bomber ordered held without bail
Robert Francis Dumaran, age 47, of Kahului, Maui, made his initial appearance in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Kenneth J. Mansfield following his arrest by Maui police officers Saturday on a federal warrant. Read more
Boeing delivers 43 jets in July, flat year-on-year
Boeing said on Tuesday it delivered 43 commercial jets in July, unchanged from the same month a year earlier when it faced supply chain hurdles, as the U.S. planemaker works to grow aircraft production under new CEO Kelly Ortberg. Read more
U.S. approves sale to Israel of $20 billion weapons package
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken approved the sale of F-15 jets and equipment worth nearly $19 billion along with tank cartridges valued at $774 million, explosive mortar cartridges valued at over $60 million and army vehicles worth $583 million, Pentagon said in a statement. Read more
Texas sues GM for allegedly violating drivers’ privacy
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Tuesday’s lawsuit arose from a probe announced in June into whether several automakers collected and sold mass amounts of data without drivers’ knowledge. Read more
Army analyst pleads guilty to selling secrets to China
Korbein Schultz was charged in March with conspiracy to disclose national defense information, exporting defense articles and technical data without a license, and bribery of a public official. Read more
Elliott targets Southwest board in bid to shake up leadership
The hedge fund has been interviewing candidates for the 15-member board and is working toward being able to call a special meeting where investors could vote on the nominees, the people said. Read more
Barefoot Beach Cafe in Waikiki reopens after inspection
DOH said the food establishment at 2701 Kalakaua Ave., which is run by Optimum Management & Marketing Corp., received the red placard on Friday. Read more
Musk’s Trump talk: After glitchy start, a two-hour ramble
The conversation had been billed as a triumphant moment for the social platform, which Musk bought in 2022. Read more
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