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Mikaela Shiffrin might have missed out on a medal that would have made her the most decorated alpine skier ever, but the US star was buoyant after what she dubbed her “miraculous” fifth place in the slalom on Saturday. Shiffrin had finished third fastest in the first leg to remain on course to surpass Christl…
As Palestinian inmates released by Israel on Saturday stepped off the buses that took them to the Gaza Strip, some flashed a victory sign and swiftly set fire to sweatshirts they were made to wear in prison. Images broadcast on Israeli media before their release under a ceasefire deal with Hamas showed rows of Palestinian…
DAYTONA BEACH — NASCAR started Saturday with a rain delay. A morning shower doused Daytona International Speedway ahead of 10 a.m. Xfinity Series qualifying. The rain stopped before 10, though, and qualifying will begin as soon as the track is dry. The 200-mile ARCA race and the United Rentals 300 Xfinity race were scheduled for…
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to his people less than 24 hours later, Brazilian authorities said. The encounter occurred around 7 p.m. local time Wednesday in Bela Rosa, a community along the Purus River in the southwestern Amazon….
Wisconsin voters will return to the polls this spring for the first major election in a battleground state since the 2024 presidential race. The April 1 contest for a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court — which will determine the bench’s ideological balance for the second time in two years — has already drawn millions of…
A mid-level probationary worker with the U.S. Department of Agriculture read the letter in disbelief. It was from the USDA’s human resources department explaining he no longer had a job. The letter said the decision had been made “based on your performance.” But it didn’t make sense to him. “There’s no way to tie me…
Caroline Hawley Diplomatic correspondent Foreign Office Craig and Lindsay Foreman crossed into Iran in December and planned to be in neighbouring Pakistan five days later The family of a British couple in custody in Iran, named as Craig and Lindsay Foreman, say they are united in their determination to secure their “safe return”. The couple,…
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s imminent elections on behalf of a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis 80 years ago. A day after Mr. Vance stunned the Munich Security Conference by telling German leaders to drop their…
Six months after the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny died in a Russian prison above the Arctic Circle, Konstantin A. Kotov woke up to find his Moscow apartment under siege. After breaking down the door, Russian officers set about confiscating everything to do with Mr. Navalny, down to a campaign button from the activist’s 2018…
On this sun-drenched morning there appeared to be fewer people gathered in Hostages Square than on previous release days. Naama Moses, a volunteer selling merchandise to support the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents relatives of the captives, ascribed this to the pain that many felt when they saw the three men who were…