MILAN (AP) — Political pressure on Olympic officials, like in the case of the Ukraine skeleton racer’s memorial helmet at the Milan Cortina Games, is nothing new, according to a long-time IOC insider.

Preparation, training, and belief - after Keely Hodgkinson smashes the indoor 800m world record, her coach Jenny Meadows explains how their plan came together.

An Olympic gold medal on snow has long seemed like the impossible for Team GB. But for those in the know, it has been just a ...

Every day, Derrick Gordon thinks about the moment he found his freedom: the intro from his coach, his speech in front of his ...

Al Letson revisits a story about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin that he produced 16 years ago for Black History Month.

Calling the ruling a "Presidents' Day present," she cited a conservative judge who compared the Trump administration to Orwell's "1984." ...

The story of Otto and Friedel Kuehn and their children defies belief. In the 1920s, Otto was an often-failed-but-finally successful businessman living in Germany; Friedel had delivered two children, ...

Since most of us engage with AI via text boxes, we imagine it more as a brain and less as a body. But there’s a good case to be made that AI hardware applications—like smart robots—could end up being ...

Born in 1906 and raised in rural Nova Scotia, he vividly describes the experience of spotting a large green caterpillar ...

Over the last few weeks, I created a computer game set in the Arctic. Or maybe I've been working on it since 1981. It all depends on how you count. All I know for sure is that I programmed the ...

The groups behind the lawsuit said a federal campaign to review materials has escalated, leading to the removal of exhibits that discuss the history of slavery and enslaved people, civil rights, ...

In December 2025, newspapers in India carried an arresting, dystopian image: scores of young people sitting obediently in rows on an airstrip in the eastern state of Odisha to take an exam. Over 8,000 ...