C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Olympic gold medalist Suni Lee is ending her college gymnastics career and returning to professional gymnastics for a chance to join the U.S. women’s team at the 2024 Paris Olympics. “Today, I’m sharing a decision that has weighed on me […]
Ryan M. Kelly/Getty Images (CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) — The University of Virginia is in mourning after three members of the football team were killed in a mass shooting on the Charlottesville campus Sunday night. Two other students were injured in the shooting which unfolded on a bus as it returned from […]
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The District of Columbia filed a consumer protection lawsuit against the Washington Commanders, team owner Daniel Snyder, the National Football League and league commissioner Roger Goodell, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Thursday. The defendants are being sued “for collusion to […]
KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — WNBA star Brittney Griner, who’s been detained in Russia since February and is facing nine years in a Russian prison, has been transferred to a penal colony. The move was decried by White House officials. “Every minute that Brittney Griner must endure […]
KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — WNBA star Brittney Griner, who’s been detained in Russia since February and is facing nine years in a Russian prison, has been transferred to a penal colony. The move was decried by White House officials. “Every minute that Brittney Griner must endure […]
Carmen Mandato/Getty Images (HOUSTON) — Thousands of Houston Astros fans are expected to line the streets of downtown Houston on Monday as the city celebrates the 2022 World Series champions with a parade. The parade will begin at 1 p.m ET and travel down Smith Street, beginning at the intersection […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images/STOCK (LA PLATA, Md.) — A Maryland homeowner returned from work to find five people dead in his house in what police said was a quadruple murder-suicide. The Charles County Sheriff’s office said officers responded to a residential home in La Plata, Maryland, on Friday to find the homeowner […]
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Every year, there’s a new story about someone crawling, being lifted, or not even making it to the finish line of a marathon. And every year, as spectators watch in awe as thousands of athletes run a grueling, painful 26.2 miles in […]
Dustin Satloff/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving has been suspended without pay for at least five games after promoting a film that contains “deeply disturbing antisemitic hate,” the team announced Thursday. “We were dismayed today, when given an opportunity in a media session, that Kyrie refused […]
Dustin Satloff/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Brooklyn Nets and their all-star point guard Kyrie Irving have announced that each of them will donate $500,000 to the Anti-Defamation League after Irving tweeted a link to a film that critics say promotes antisemitic tropes. “The events of the past week have […]
