BEIJING – With heavy hearts and unimaginable worry, athletes from the Ukrainian national Paralympic team arrived in China two weeks ago, seeking to win medals and draw attention to the plight of their country through their athletic achievement. They did both. Isolated from loved ones, many of whom were sheltering in basements and garages under …
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The first person to have his failing heart replaced with that of a genetically altered pig in a groundbreaking operation died Tuesday afternoon at the University of Maryland Medical Center, two months after transplant surgery. David Bennett Sr., who lived in Maryland, was 57. He had severe heart disease, and had agreed to receive the …
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They lined up for blocks along Amsterdam Avenue in December, standing in the cold for two hours, hoping to squeeze into the modest Max Stern Athletic Center for a glimpse at the hottest college basketball team in New York City. Inside, the Yeshiva men’s basketball team, led by Ryan Turell, the top scorer in the …
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More and more American school districts have dropped mask mandates in recent weeks as coronavirus cases plunged across the United States. But they remain a subject of debate among some students and their parents, and a study released on Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that those mandates had helped protect …
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For this year’s 928 Heisman Trophy voters, the instructions were as straightforward as ever: Select as many as three candidates for college football’s most outstanding player. The news media members (145 in each of six geographic regions) and former Heisman winners (58 currently living) who submitted their votes electronically by 5 pm on Monday were …
After slapping an assistant coach for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team in the head in the handshake line after his team’s loss on Sunday, Michigan Coach Juwan Howard was suspended for five games – the remainder of the regular season – and fined $ 40,000, the Big Ten Conference announced on Monday. He will be …
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Russia’s international disinformation campaign seemed to flounder in the early days of the invasion, as narratives about Ukrainian bravery dominated the internet. But in Russia, the country’s propaganda machine was busy churning out a deluge of misinformation aimed at its own citizens. The narrative disseminated online through state-run and unofficial channels has helped create an …
Four months after the men’s college basketball season began, the 68 teams in the NCAA tournament will finally be revealed during the Selection Sunday show on CBS, starting at 6 pm Eastern. Some teams will be sweating it out as they wait to see whether they made the cut, while others are simply anxious to …
The long-defunct Chernobyl plant in Ukraine is completely dependent on outside sources of electricity. So when that power is cut, as Ukrainian officials and the International Atomic Energy Agency say it has been by Russian troops, problems can result. As of Wednesday Chernobyl, the scene of the worst nuclear disaster in history when one of …
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Elizabeth Holmes was a star entrepreneur whose trial for defrauding investors in her blood-testing start-up became one of the biggest Silicon Valley spectacles since the introduction of the iPhone. Her conviction in January marked a rare moment in the boastful history of technology: A chief executive was held criminally responsible for lying. For much of …
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