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As a young girl in suburban Florida, I remember watching swimmer Amy Van Dyken win four Olympic gold medals in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games. I knew I wanted to be up on that stage one day.

Five years ago, I was so over soccer. I’d played in the Olympics in 2008 and won a gold medal. But within a year, things started going downhill. I injured my shoulder pretty badly. I played for a few more years with the American Professional Soccer League. But then it folded.

After I retired from running, I was a counselor for 20 years at several schools in Southern California. At first, no one knew I was an Olympian who'd made international news for raising my fist on the medals podium in 1968 — not the district, and definitely not the students.

Informed Comment: Could Al Qaeda step up to replace ISIS in Syria as the greatest threat to the West?

It is so disappointing to see in 2016 that much of the news media feels it's necessary to explain the Black Lives Matter is not responsible for the cop killings in Dallas.

From Roman orchards to modern-day supermarkets, the humble cherry has enjoyed a long and fruitful history. Here are a few facts worth snacking on.

Just because you can see Kylie Jenner on TV, in magazines and on Snapchat, doesn't mean you know the real her. Kylie broadcasts her life on Snapchat and Instagram, giving fans and...

A stunt company and its director have pleaded guilty to failing in their duty of care to a stuntman who died following a human cannonball act.

This week’s round of new exchange traded funds (ETFs) once again focuses on old themes applied to new market segments or indexes. In this case we’re talking about applying social screens and the smart-beta staple of equal-weighting.

US digital cable and satellite television channel Logo TV has green-lit dating series, Finding Prince Charming, which will feature a cast of gay men competing to win the favour of America’s most eligible gay heartthrob.

Iran's nuclear deal with world powers is holding a year after it was agreed but more needs to be done to ensure its full implementation, a top Iranian negotiator said.

Silicon Valley’s best-known venture investors have emerged largely unscathed from the rapid descent of Theranos, but the decline offers a cautionary tale for a community that bets big on visionary founders touting revolutionary technology.

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DETROIT, July 13 (UPI) -- R&B mainstay Erykah Badu plans to donate the proceeds from her August concert in Detroit to that city's project to process untested rape kits.

NORFOLK, Va. — As a man live streamed Facebook video of himself and two friends smoking and listening to music in a car, someone opened fire on the vehicle, wounding all three men, police said Wednesday. About 5 ½ minutes into the Facebook Live video posted Tuesday evening, at least 30 rounds are fired in

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.S. military in Africa said Wednesday it has sent 40 additional soldiers to South Sudan's capital, Juba, to help secure American personnel and facilities in the war-torn city, while South Sudanese trying to flee the…

Russian Foreign Minister said that Russia wants to hear explanations of the decisions taken at the NATO summit on July 8-9.

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Good morning!

It's a quiet day in FX as of 7:31 a.m. ET with most currencies little changed against the dollar.

Still, one broader trend from the last couple of days that's worth pointing out is that the Japanese yen and the British pound have reversed course from their post-Brexit behavior.

The former has been falling against the dollar, while the latter has been advancing this week.

Here's the scoreboard this morning:

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ROME — Convicted Cosa Nostra “boss of bosses” Bernardo Provenzano, who reputedly led the Mafia’s powerful Corleone clan, died on Wednesday, a decade after his capture in Sicily following decades of hiding in the countryside, a lawyer said. In recent years, Provenzano, 83, had been held under strict security measures at a Milan hospital. The

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In design-savvy South Beach, even parking projects attract star architects.