LILLE, France — Jasper Philipsen won the opening stage of the Tour de France in a sprint to the line, and defending champion Tadej Pogačar finished safely on Saturday.

SILVIS, Ill. — Davis Thompson made a 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole Saturday to break out of a logjam that, at one point, featured 10 players tied for the lead, giving him a 4-under-par 67 on a much tougher golf course and a one-shot lead in the John Deere Classic.

CHICAGO — Bobby Jenks, a two-time All-Star closer and World Series champion with the Chicago White Sox, has died, the team announced Saturday. He was 44.

The Washington Examiner reported last week that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced she was terminating funding for a federal program that supports the Eradicate Hate Global Summit, which was started in Pittsburgh after the massacre of 11 Tree of Life synagogue worshippers in 2018, still the deadliest antisemitic act on American soil.

The monstrous, swift-moving flood that swept through the Hill Country of Texas on Friday, killing at least 32 people and leaving many more missing, was a flash flood, the nation’s top storm-related killer. Among those missing are girls attending a summer camp.

A 23-year-old man who shot two people in Somerset County early Saturday morning was found dead from apparent gunshot wounds, state police said.

Twenty-five years into the 21st century, the Centre Daily Times put together a panel of Penn State beat writers to determine the Nittany Lions’ top 10 quarterbacks since 2000.

A day late was not a dollar short when it came to Apollo’s Independence Day celebration on Saturday.

LONDON — As well as Jannik Sinner is playing at Wimbledon, he doesn’t appear to need much in the way of help. Still, he got some Saturday when his opponent, Pedro Martinez, was dealing with a problematic shoulder and often put in first serves at so-so speeds.

WASHINGTON — Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have reached the Trump administration’s intended destination, war-torn South Sudan, a country the State Department advises against travel to due to “crime, kidnapping, and armed conflict.”