Olympic squad prediction: 18 players to revive the U.S. women after 2023’s historic low Just 10 months ago, the USA was ignominiously knocked out of the 2023 Women’s World Cup in the Round of 16, via a penalty shootout at the hands of Sweden. A historic low, it was the program’s ... 06/19/2024 - 8:22 pm | View Link
Morning Update: Paris’s Olympic glow-up Good morning. To get ready for the 2024 Olympics, Paris is transforming the suburbs and the Seine – more on that below, along with Mr. Brexit’s rebrand and the places where refugees feel at home. 06/19/2024 - 8:11 pm | View Link
Trinity Rodman and the USWNT’s Next Generation Seek Olympic Redemption After “Chaotic” World Cup Ahead of the Paris Games, the women’s soccer rising star talks to Vanity Fair about last year’s tournament letdown, becoming the face of a new Adidas cleat, comparisons with her NBA legend father, and ... 06/18/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
The controversial Olympic call that kickstarted modern timekeeping “The worst thing that could happen at an Olympic event would be ... Luckily, Omega has clocked up plenty of experience at the Olympics, having taken the mantle of official timekeeper 30 times across ... 06/18/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Athletes sound warning about extreme heat at Summer Olympics In a worst-case scenario, that can lead to heat exhaustion that ... Tennis player Marcus Daniell, who, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, won a Bronze medal for New Zealand in the men’s doubles, wrote about ... 06/18/2024 - 7:29 am | View Link
TAMPICO, Mexico — Tropical storm Alberto rumbled toward northeast Mexico early Thursday as the first named storm of the season, carrying heavy rains that left three people dead but also brought hope to a region suffering under a prolonged, severe drought.
Mexican authorities downplayed the risk posed by Alberto and instead pinned their hopes on its ability to ease the parched region’s water needs.
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“The (wind) speeds are not such as to consider it a risk,” said Tamaulipas state Secretary of Hydrological Resources Raúl Quiroga Álvarez during a news conference late Wednesday.
What a time we are all living through. Like so many people, I have been watching the awful events happening in the Middle East over the last year and trying to determine how to react. I have been seeing the brazen antisemitic incidents in my own city and feeling a mix of anger, fear, and astonishment that we are at this place in our country.
There’s a patch of countryside along Iceland’s southern coast that was pretty much empty 15 years ago. The family that had owned and farmed the land for decades had moved to Reykjavík, three and a half hours away. A few visitors stumbled upon the area, which—in addition to being an excellent pasture for sheep—is also home to a narrow, steep-sided canyon that looks like it could be straight out of Lord of the Rings.
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Things started to change sometime around 2013, when a few intrepid travelers began posting photos of the canyon on social media—sometimes with a geolocation tag attached.
Russia destroyed and damaged Ukrainian energy facilities overnight as President Vladimir Putin’s forces continue attacks to disrupt the country’s power system.
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Russia targeted the central Dnipropetrovsk and Vinnytsia regions, as well as the Kyiv region and part of the Donetsk region in the east, the Energy Ministry said in a post on Telegram on Thursday morning.
NEW DELHI — At least 34 people have died and dozens hospitalized after drinking illegally brewed liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, local media reported on Thursday.
The state’s chief minister M K Stalin said the 34 died after consuming liquor that was tainted with methanol, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
The incident occurred in the state’s Kallakurichi district, where more than 100 people are being treated in various hospitals, top district official M S Prasanth said.
There is an obvious reason why the sixth episode of Netflix’s seven-part documentary America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders is titled “9 to 5.” Set in the fall of 2023, it features Dolly Parton performing her hit at the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving game half-time show, dressed in full cheerleader regalia. But there’s some subtext to the title as well.