Olga Fikotova Connolly, Olympian in a Cold War Romance, Dies at 91
She was from Czechoslovakia. He was from the U.S. And after meeting at the 1956 Games and winning gold medals, they married. Love had breached the iron curtain.
She was from Czechoslovakia. He was from the U.S. And after meeting at the 1956 Games and winning gold medals, they married. Love had breached the iron curtain.
He helped shape the band’s futuristic sound, which blended Beatles-esque pop with orchestral arrangements.
The school was ill prepared when protesters blocked students from accessing parts of campus and counterprotesters violently attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment.
“If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that,” Donald Trump told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.”
The former president recalled a key detail central to testimony before the Jan. 6 committee during a campaign event in Wisconsin.
School officials in Mount Horeb, Wis., southwest of Madison, said that no one else was harmed and that schools were placed on lockdown.
“The time is now,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken declared, urging Hamas to accept the terms of a proposed truce. He also made clear that he expected more from Israel.
The bill, which reflects growing support for legalization, would end the federal prohibition on cannabis. But it is unlikely to pass in an election year and a divided government.
In her conversation with the vice president, Drew Barrymore allowed informality to veer into disrespect.
I worry that the more aggressive demonstrators may be hurting the Gazans they’re trying to support.
A heated hearing produced no new evidence that Peter Daszak or his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, were implicated in the Covid outbreak.
In the suit, lawyers for the former Nickelodeon producer called the documentary a “hit job” that had falsely painted him as a “child sexual abuser.”
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged for a sixth straight meeting and suggested that rates would stay high for longer.
But the scope of the outbreak among cattle remains uncertain, and little human testing has been done.
Even opponents of abortion saw such curbs as too controversial just over a decade ago. Times have changed.
The vice president sought to tie former President Donald J. Trump to the state’s six-week abortion ban, which took effect on Wednesday.
Lawmakers voted to repeal an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions. Here’s what to know about the fight over the law.
Two Republican state senators broke with their party to ensure final passage of the repeal. Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, is expected to sign it.
Also, the Fed eyes a longer period of high rates. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
“Panda diplomacy” has represented an area of cooperation between the United States and China despite tension over weighty issues of trade and national security.
Sharon Toney-Finch, who served in Iraq in 2010, was charged with fraudulently claiming to have a Purple Heart and with defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first leftist president, made the announcement in front of cheering crowds in the capital that had gathered for International Workers’ Day.
The Georgia Republican’s doomed push to remove the speaker has placed her at odds with most in her party, but it has brought her back to her roots as a norm-busting provocateur.
A self-taught electric guitar virtuoso, he influenced a generation of musicians. One of them, John Fogerty, called him rock’s first guitar god.
Witnesses discussed the salacious and the banal, and the judge warned the defendant he could go to jail.
President Gustavo Petro announced on Wednesday that the South American nation planned to break diplomatic ties with Israel.
Videos show Lisa Fithian, whom the police called a “professional agitator,” working alongside protesters who stormed Hamilton Hall.
The former New York mayor and Trump lawyer actually spent nearly $120,000 in January, and his creditors say he is still not turning over required financial information.
In many students’ eyes, the war in Gaza is linked to other issues, such as policing, mistreatment of Indigenous people, racism and the impact of climate change.
Testing suggests that pasteurization inactivates the virus. But what about raw milk and cheese?