For the first time in history, an Olympic Games opening ceremony has moved out of a stadium and into the heart of the host city, Paris. Smoke resembling the flag of Team France is shown over Pont d’Austerlitz during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Lars Baron/Getty Images)Team Greece begins the athletes’ parade past water jets and the water curtain under the Austerlitz Bridge on the Seine during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Lars Baron/Getty Images)Spectators wav ..read more

It was a show-stopping, powerful conclusion to the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics. Celine Dion returned to the stage to perform on a platform of the Eiffel Tower for a mesmerizing comeback performance. This is Dion’s first performance in over a year after canceling her Courage world tour in May 2023 amid her battle with stiff-person syndrome. The autoimmune and neurological condition, which, which Dion first revealed in December 2022, causes painful spasms and makes it hard to walk. “I actually can’t talk,” said a very emotional Kelly Clarkson after hearing her song. “To have ..read more

What to Know The French government requested the NYPD K-9 units and their handlers for about two weeks at 2024 Paris Olympics. The K-9 units will patrol Olympic venues throughout the city. The 2024 Paris Olympics will be the largest event ever organized in France, which is one of the reasons the French government sought support from the NYPD, as well as police departments from other countries. The NYPD sent four K-9 units to France this month to assist in securing Paris for the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympics, which kicked off Friday. The French Consulate in New York confirmed in a post on X t ..read more

A male judoka from Iraq tested positive for two anabolic steroids at the Paris Olympics, the International Testing Agency said Friday. It was the first doping case at these Olympic Games and was announced hours before the opening ceremony started. Sajjad Sehen, a 28-year-old first-time Olympian, tested positive for metandienone and boldenone in a sample taken in Paris on Tuesday. He was due to compete next Tuesday. Sehen is provisionally suspended while a disciplinary case is prosecuted, said the ITA, which oversees the games-time anti-doping program for the International Olympic Committe ..read more

Who’s the mysterious hooded figure carrying the Olympic torch throughout Paris? As the 2024 Paris Olympics kicks off with the opening ceremony, spectators notice a resemblance between the torchbearer and a video game character from Assassin’s Creed — and they seem to be loving the similarity of the unknown figures traveling through the city using parkour moves. While we can’t confirm whether there’s actually a connection between the game and the torchbearer video game creator Ubisoft, a French video game publisher, tweeted a photo from “Assassin’s Creed Unity” during the Olympics opening cerem ..read more

Some vegetables sold at select Walmart and Aldi stories in the tri-state area are being recalled over concerns of possible listeria contamination, according to a press release. The vegetables under the recall were sold from Weirs Farm Inc. of Willard, Ohio, which had originally issued a smaller recall for cucumbers on July 12, but has since expanded it. Products involved in the recall were packed between July 5 and 12 of this year. The company said there have been no illnesses or complaints from the potentially affected products, but that it was doing the recall “out of abundance of caution ..read more

A grandmother shot and killed a mother before turning the gun on herself on an Upper East Side street in what police believe was a murder-suicide stemming from a custody dispute. The shooting took place on East 88th Street between York Avenue and East End Avenue just before 9 a.m. Friday, police said at a press conference. It was just half a block from Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The mayor’s security detail heard the gunfire and raced to the scene. A woman was found on the street near the rear of a parked Honda Civic, according to police, and a sec ..read more

What to Know A spectacular cauldron lighting and the hoisting of the Olympic flag highlighted the Opening Ceremony. The Games’ ceremonial kickoff featured a boat parade down a 3.7-mile stretch of the Seine River, passing by some of Paris’ iconic landmarks and Olympic venues. U.S. flag bearers Coco Gauff and LeBron James led a group of nearly 600 American athletes in the Parade of Nations. The Paris Olympics kicked off Friday with a spectacle on the Seine. While the action in Paris has been underway for a few days, the Opening Ceremony was held Friday with a boat parade of athletes, music fr ..read more

Breaking — also called breakdancing — is set to debut at the 2024 Paris Olympics next month. And one of its biggest stars hails from the five boroughs. The sport, which originated in the 1970s on the streets of the Bronx, has 30 million fans. Breaking is largely popular due to its accessibility and the fact that no equipment is needed other than shoes and a speaker to play music. See when and where to watch New Yorker Sunny Choi and the rest of the breaking competition live: Where will breaking be held at the 2024 Olympics? Place de la Concorde will be the site for breaking ..read more

Boar’s Head is recalling more than 200,000 pounds of liverwurst and other deli meat products because they could be contaminated with listeria, which can cause potentially deadly infections in vulnerable populations, the FDA says. Authorities say they are investigating whether the contamination may be linked to an ongoing listeria outbreak that has killed two people, one of them a New Jerseyean, and sickened dozens across 13 states, this year. As of July 25, the CDC was reporting a total of 34 illnesses related to the outbreak. All but one of those cases required hospitalization. The ready-to-e ..read more