A Chicago teenager whose father was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year as she was sick with a rare form of cancer has died. Ofelia Torres died on Friday at the age of 16 from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer that affects the soft tissue. She was diagnosed […]
Nancy Guthrie investigation moving away from man whose home was searched
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Obama derides social media ‘clown show’ in first comments since Trump’s racist video post
Former President Barack Obama called the kind of rhetoric coming from President Donald Trump and his administration “a clown show” in a podcast interview that aired Saturday. Obama was asked by YouTube podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen about the “de-evolution of the discourse” coming from Trump, Vice President JD Vance and others in their administration, including […]
Johannes Klæbo wins record ninth Winter Olympic gold
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Now Playing Johannes Klæbo wins record ninth Winter Olympic gold 00:25 UP NEXT U.S. boards another oil tanker in the Indian Ocean 00:21 Sweden accuses Canada of cheating in men’s curling 00:37 Team USA defeats Japan in women’s curling 01:33 […]
Tennis pro Destanee Aiava condemns ‘toxic’ tennis culture in retirement announcement
Australian tennis player Destanee Aiava announced she would be retiring from professional play in an open letter that condemned what she called the “racist, misogynistic, homophobic and hostile” culture within the sport. The 25-year-old posted on Instagram Saturday to say that this will be her final year on tour, adding that tennis has become her […]
NBA’s effort to stop tanking is ‘not working,’ Adam Silver says
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — NBA commissioner Adam Silver wondered out loud Saturday if a moral code in pro sports has been decisively crossed as more and more teams are blatantly losing games — the hated practice of “tanking.” Silver conceded that the league is still struggling for solutions to punish teams that lose intentionally for long-term […]
Ancient Egyptian artifacts stolen from Australian museum
He turned “cat burglar” into a job description. A 52‑year‑old man has been charged after an Egyptian cat sculpture and “priceless” artifacts were stolen from an Australian history museum, Queensland police said Sunday. The suspect is accused of smashing a window at the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology in Caboolture, north of Brisbane, in […]
Sweden accuses Canada of cheating in men’s curling
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Now Playing Sweden accuses Canada of cheating in men’s curling 00:37 UP NEXT Team USA defeats Japan in women’s curling 01:33 Team USA’s men’s hockey defeats Denmark 00:58 Crew-12 arrives at International Space Station 00:39 Team USA’s Maxim Naumov honors […]
Why a dart frog poison believed to have killed Alexei Navalny points to the Kremlin
The modern poison has become less a medieval cliché than a geopolitical signature flourish. Precise, deniable, and in Russia’s case, grimly familiar. Accusations of Russian poisoning surfaced again this week after Western governments said laboratory analysis found the rare frog-derived toxin epibatidine, a compound associated with Ecuadorian poison dart frogs, in samples from the body […]
Ski mountaineering to make its Olympic debut
This week, for the first time at the Olympics, skiers will scamper uphill wearing carpet-like skins on their skis or just their stiff boots, then barrel back down an ungroomed course. This is ski mountaineering — or skimo — the newest Olympic event. It’s a brutal high-altitude sport. Follow along for live coverage “I think […]