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Maryland Board of Public Works approves purchase of Laurel Park race track 07/02/2026 11:25am • The $48.5 million purchase of Laurel Park race track approved by the Board of Public Works Wednesday clears the way for construction of a new thoroughbred training facility and the sale of a Carroll County property bought a year ago for the same purpose. The board unanimously approved the purchas England midfielder Anderson set for $155M move to Man City in one of soccer's all-time biggest deals 07/02/2026 11:11am • England international Elliot Anderson will become one of the most expensive soccer players ever after Manchester City reached a deal to sign the midfielder from Nottingham Forest for a reported fee of 116 million pounds ($155 million). Anderson's move will be completed in the coming weeks after he h Cooper Lutkenhaus, 17, makes Prefontaine Classic 800 debut with veteran's poise and youthful energy 07/02/2026 11:09am • Cooper Lutkenhaus drives around in a truck that's five years older than him. He runs around the track with a wisdom and a confidence that almost stand in contrast to his 17 years of age. One of the top 800-meter runners in the world is about to enter his senior year of high school. His favorite clas World champion archer Bernal banned for three years after steroid doping 07/02/2026 11:04am • LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) ��� Archery world champion Mariana Bernal of Mexico was banned for three years, the International Testing Agency said Thursday, after testing positive for an anabolic steroid three weeks after winning a team gold medal against the U.S. The 23-year-old Bernal did not chall The Declaration's forgotten (non)signer: John Dickinson���s missing 1776 signature haunts his legacy 07/02/2026 10:37am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� For a quarter century, Jane Calvert has been on a mission shared by few scholars of the Revolutionary War era. She has championed a founder mostly remembered, when remembered at all, as the man who wouldn't sign the Declaration of Independence ��� the lawyer and statesman John Dick Norris says reports Verstappen's interested in McLaren move are cool, but not serious 07/02/2026 10:32am • SILVERSTONE, England (AP) ��� Lando Norris says reports that Max Verstappen has considered a move to McLaren are ���a cool thing��� to hear but ���not a serious thing��� as speculation swirls in Formula 1 about a switch which could create a lineup of two champions. Reports from media including Sky Turkey detains stand-up comedian for allegedly insulting religious values 07/02/2026 10:13am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� Turkish authorities on Thursday detained a comedian whose stand-up routine drew complaints that it insulted religious values after it was widely viewed online. Deniz Goktas was detained for questioning at Istanbul���s main airport on his return from a trip abroad, the state- Papua separatists claim to have shot dead a US pilot who transported Indonesian troops 07/02/2026 10:10am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� A Papua separatist group said Thursday it shot dead an American pilot who allegedly transported Indonesian troops into the restive province. A spokesman for the West Papua Liberation Army, or TPNPB, said its fighters fatally shot Nicholas F. Goselin and set fire to an ai Sports on TV for Friday, July 3 07/02/2026 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Friday, July 3 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN���S) 5:25 a.m. FS2 ��� AFL: Western at Sydney 11 p.m. FS2 ��� AFL: Melbourne at Hawthorn 2 a.m. (Saturday) FS2 ��� AFL: Collingwood at Gold Coast AUTO RACING 7:30 a.m. APPLE TV ��� Formula 1 Today in Sports - Novak Djokovic wins his first Wimbledon, beating defending champion Rafael Nadal 07/02/2026 10:10am • July 3 1920 ��� Suzanne Lenglen beats Dorothea Chambers a second straight year (6-3, 6-0) to win the women���s singles title at Wimbledon. 1925 ��� Suzanne Lenglen wins her sixth and final women���s singles title at Wimbledon, easily beating Joan Fry, 6-2, 6-0. 1931 ��� Max Schmeling knocks out Youn The Supreme Court tackled race, history and the law in fraught and reflective major rulings 07/02/2026 10:05am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court just wrapped up a term that yielded significant rulings in cases involving race and discrimination that could have lasting effects on U.S. politics and society. Justices were at times bitterly divided ��� and critical of one another ��� in rulings that winnowed DC's World Central Kitchen helps feed Venezuelans after earthquake 07/02/2026 10:03am • Hours after back-to-back earthquakes hit northern Venezuela, volunteers with World Central Kitchen, the nonprofit founded by chef Jos�� Andr��s in D.C., mobilized to help distribute food to people who are in a desperate situation. As work continued to rescue trapped people, the nonprofit was busy Trump and Republicans return to communist attacks against Democrats ahead of the midterm elections 07/02/2026 09:58am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans are reviving a line of attack against Democrats heading into the midterm elections: They're communists. In just the past week, Trump has issued dark warnings that members of the Democratic Party's ascendant left are communists wh Grains mostly lower, livestock mixed 07/02/2026 09:45am • CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were mostly lower in early trading Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Jul. corn rose by 1 cent at $4.22 a bushel. Jul. wheat was off 1.25 cents at $5.91 a bushel. Jul. oats fell by 2.75 cents at $2.69 a bushel. Jul. soybeans was unchanged at $11.26 a bushel. Beef wa Belarus convicts a journalist and sentences him to 3.5 years in prison 07/02/2026 09:42am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� A court in Belarus has convicted a journalist and sentenced him to 3 1/2 years in prison in the latest step against free speech in the country, the Belarusian Association of Journalists reported Thursday. Kiryl Pazniak, 49, who hosted a popular political show on YouTube, h