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Two female cyclists claim that transgender athletes are still competing in British Cycling women's events.

Competitive eating legend Joey Chestnut set a new world record last July by eating 76 hot dogs and buns (HDB) in 10 minutes in the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island. That is not a typo. Chestnut ate 76 hot dogs and buns in the amount of time it takes you to […]

A recent study determined that D.C. is the worst-run city in the country.

Alcohol Healthwatch is thrilled that the reality of thriving communities free from alcohol harm is one step closer now that MP Chlöe Swarbrick’s Private Members’ Bill will proceed to be debated in Parliament. The Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Harm ...

“Mr. Malcolm’s List” is not, technically, by Jane Austen, but it is Austenesque through and through

The FBI has added Ruja Ignatova, known as “CryptoQueen,” to its list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives, offering up to $100,000 for information that leads to her arrest. Ignatova has been facing five charges including wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and securities fraud since 2018 after she allegedly defrauded investors who invested in...

Jaylen Brown responded to Draymond Green saying he knew the exact moment he got inside the Celtics forward's head during this year's NBA Finals.

Billionaire alleged Josh Harris plotted to unseat him as chief of private equity firm

Bone loss happens in humans -- as we age, get injured, or any scenario where we can't move the body, we lose bone. Understanding what happens to astronauts and how they recover is incredibly rare. It lets us look at the processes happening in the body in such a short time frame. We would have to follow someone for decades on Earth to see the same amount of bone loss.

A collaboration between a former cosmologist and a computational neuroscientist generates a new way to identify essential connections between brain cells.

An optical fiber as thin as a strand of hair holds promise for use in minimally invasive deep-tissue studies of patients' brains that show the effects Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders. The challenge is efficiently increasing image resolution at the subcellular level, because loss of information is inevitable from light scrambling.

"[Dogs] serve just like we do, they go through the same things that we do...the least we can do is take them in and give them a home," said Scott, the U.S. Navy veteran.

Flooding in urban areas cost Americans more than $106 billion between 1960 and 2016, damaging property, disrupting businesses and claiming lives in the process. Now, new research outlines a simplified, cost-effective method for developing flood maps that reflects the uncertainty in flood predictions.

Residents were injured after a chemical substance was sprayed inside a block of flats.

A Kentucky judge on Thursday blocked the state from enforcing a ban on abortion enacted in 2019 that was triggered after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned the constitutional right to it nationwide.  Jefferson Circuit Judge Mitch Perry issued a temporary restraining order at the request of two abortion clinics, including a Planned Parenthood affiliate, which challenged that law and another that bars abortions after six weeks of pregnancy — that can come before a woman realizes she is pregnant. Читать дальше...

Road traffic accidents claim nearly 1.3 million lives each year, cost some countries up to three per cent of their annual GDP, and are the biggest killer of five to 29-year olds globally, the UN General Assembly President told a High-level Meeting on Improving Global Road Safety on Thursday.

In a new week of great action in women’s boxing, a new emerging star managed to climb into the trailblazing Ring women’s ratings with a superb performance. Canada´s Mary Spencer improved to an impressive 6-0 with 4 knockouts with a one-round demolition of Uruguayan former world titlist Chris Namus, sending her usually durable foe (this […]

1. Supreme Court to review state legislatures' power in federal elections  The Washington Post
2. An ominous development for the 2024 election, thanks to NC Republicans  Charlotte Observer
3. Supreme Court agrees to hear redistricting case that could have major implications for voting rights  CNN
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Pittsburgh Festival Opera, the smaller of the city’s two opera companies, isn’t putting on any full operas this year.

The San Antonio Spurs agreed to trade All-Star guard Dejounte Murray to the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for Danilo Gallinari and draft picks. Murray will join Trae Young in Atlanta, who is looking to bounce back from a first-round exit to the Miami Heat. Joy Taylor explains why she is a fan of the Murray-to-Atlanta move.

Over past three months labour shortages have caused long lineups at airports and flight delays and cancellations

FOR those who can solve this puzzle, the average time is 34 seconds. Are you among the 30 percent of people who can locate the odd cushion that’s out of place in this difficult brain teaser? Sofa and carpet specialist ScS created a series of interior-themed visual puzzles that will potentially have you stumped. The […]

Jason Armond

As someone who can’t swim, is incredibly afraid of boats, and will never be able to afford a ticket anyway, I had no plans to ever check out a Disney cruise. But early previews from the corporation’s upcoming oceanic vacation experience, the Disney Wish cruise, may change my mind.

DAME MARY BERRY looked the epitome of elegance as she attended day four of Wimbledon 2022.