In the final of our feature stories marking the original event dates of Tokyo 2020 – today (7 August) would have been the concluding day of the Olympic Hockey competition – we speak to Argentina captain Pedro Ibarra about his team’s incredible gold medal at Rio 2016.
He is aiming to be the first sailor ever to finish four back-to-back Vendée Globe races. He was inspired to take up sailing by a visit to Les Sables d'Olonne to see the start of the first ever race when he was fighting childhood leukaemia.
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An upset for the ages. 2020 continues to find new ways to disappoint.
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Andy Friedman conducts a “painted interview” with the Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards, who quit music, opened a café called Quitters, and now has a new album, “Total Freedom.”
Erin Overbey on “Sell Out,” a humor series published in The New Yorker that the writer Simon Rich adapted into “An American Pickle,” an HBO Max movie starring Seth Rogen.
Naomi Fry writes about Andy Sweet’s 1977 photographs from Camp Mountain Lake, in North Carolina, which beautifully capture the cheerful triumphs and the gutting alienation that children and teen-agers can experience at camp.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes about the Minneapolis City Council’s attempts to defund and reform the city’s police after the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent protests.
Jim Tankersley visits Slate Money to talk about his book on America’s middle class.
The goal shouldn’t be to make the Court less ideological, but to make it less powerful.
DURHAM, NC - MARCH 4: The Blue Devil - the mascot of the Duke University Blue Devils - claps during the game against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels on March 4, 2006 at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. North Carolina won 88-76. | Photo By Streeter Lecka/Getty Images
An iconic play in Duke history
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If the Trump ban comes to pass, advertisers might move to other, newer platforms. But right now, they’re not canceling their TikTok ads.
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The Toledo Law Department is asking for Toledo city council to approve a $67,000 payout as part of a discrimination lawsuit settlement with Alan Rose, a former city employee who contends he was unfairly treated based on his age.
Toronto businessmen Jordan Bitove and Paul Rivett are joined by former Ontario premier David Peterson.
Businessmen Jordan Bitove and Paul Rivett talk to columnist Rosie DiManno about the future of the Toronto Star.
Former Ontario premier David Peterson is back in the ring again as the incoming vice-chair of Torstar, publisher of the Toronto Star and a slew of other newspapers across the province he once governed, Martin Regg Cohn writes.
As the company’s new owners, we see it as our mandate to perpetuate the Atkinson Principles and to bring fearless, progressive journalism into the 21st century, write Jordan Bitove, Paul Rivett and David Peterson.
Four years have passed since Tavon Tanner was sitting on his Chicago porch, gazing at the moon, and a shooter sprayed the house with bullets. Now, his family is grateful for his life — and for the two detectives helping him get to high school.
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A performance coach with USA Basketball explains how you can get more bang for your buck by changing up your pre-workout stretch routine.
Toronto artist Gina Rorai’s work ‘The Hawthorn Tree’ is based on the view through her studio and encourages us to take a closer look at the familiar.
Kris Osborn
Security, Americas
It could happen and it would be a game-changer.
Key Point: It is hard to miniturize lasers, but the work is being one. Once possible, this will let jets shoot down enemy missiles and planes.
The Air Force will one day fire high-tech laser weapons from drones and fighter jets to destroy high-value targets, conduct precision strikes and incinerate enemy locations from the sky.
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Manchester United have made Jadon Sancho their absolute summer transfer window target, but could be running out of time to finalise a deal.