CORTINA D’AMPEZZO — CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — The mountainside packed with fans and competitors was eerily silent after disaster struck. Lindsey Vonn, attempting to win a gold medal despite sustaining a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her final race before the Games, clipped her pole on a gate early in her first Olympic downhill skiing run and…
Thirty years ago today, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a bill credited with creating the groundwork for the modern internet, became law and set off a chain of events that would make it a lightning rod for the techlash. The statute has survived everything from the dot-com bubble to a Supreme Court challenge…
Lindsey Vonn‘s Olympic dream is in tatters after she crashed out of the Women’s Downhill final. The 41-year-old Team USA skiing legend had taken a huge risk competing just days after announcing she had suffered an ACL rupture on her knee. However, the legendary Olympian crashed near the top of the Olympia delle Tofane course…
Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), at the party’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. Photographer: Toru Hanai/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has likely strengthened its majority in the country’s Lower House, with the LDP…
Opposition to President Trump’s policies has followed the U.S. team to Italy, and athletes, coaches and American fans are facing the backlash.
February 5, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Weird new object escalates ‘black hole star’ debate Researchers have found what might be a little red dot transitioning into its final state, where x-rays burst through its gas cocoon. Others argue the object is nothing special By Joseph Howlett edited by Lee Billings…
Ramona ShelburneFeb 6, 2026, 07:00 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Multiple Authors TYRONN LUE SMILED when he saw James Harden at the LA Clippers’ training facility Tuesday afternoon. It was just hours before the organization agreed to trade the 36-year-old, 11-time All-Star to the…
In the first As Ever chocolate drop before Christmas, I ended up moving like a ninja. I secured three chocolate bars – two white chocolate, one milk chocolate. I didn’t buy the dark chocolate bar because I’m not into dark chocolate. That first chocolate drop didn’t last long! It sold out very quickly, although the…
Cornflowers and poppies were once seen as “troublesome weeds” Heather Drake/Alamy One of the most common claims in traditional gardening lore is that weeds only grow in poor soil. Improve the fertility of your plot, and the weeds will disappear. If true, this simple trick could save gardeners hours of work, just by adding plant…
