Inside the searing silence of the Duke locker room, the echo of a door slamming shut intermittently rippled through. Every time a player or staff member ducked into the adjacent coaches locker room, the bang of the door reverberated like a siren in a still night. There’s nothing to prepare a team for the emotional spiral that…
Alysa Liu skated around the ice in disbelief, her golden dress shimmering in the lights of TD Garden, and the appreciative roar from a sellout crowd reminded her why she had returned to the sport following a nearly two-year retirement. When her score was finally read, the 19-year-old from Clovis, California, had made history. Liu…
Crowds of people angry about the way President Donald Trump is running the country marched and rallied in scores of American cities Saturday in the biggest day of demonstrations yet by an opposition movement trying to regain its momentum after the shock of the Republican’s first weeks in office. So-called Hands Off! demonstrations were organized for more than…
Monday, March 31 is Cesar Chavez’s birthday and Cesar Chavez Day, which will be marked in Denver with closed offices in honor of his life. Cesar Chavez Day was proclaimed a federal commemorative holiday in 2014 and honors the activist’s legacy in the civil rights and labor movement during his life. Chavez formed the National Farm Workers…
The NBA is a “young man’s league” is one of the most inarguable truisms in team sports, and 79 years of his history tells us it’s particularly accurate when the youth is long, athletic, frisky – and, of course, talented. That combination is high on the list of issues the Warriors, who have the…
Donald Trump defended his embattled national security adviser on Tuesday and said the leak of highly classified military plans was “the only glitch in two months”, as scrutiny intensified into how top US officials shared operational details for bombing Yemen in a group chat. In an interview with NBC, Trump said, “Michael Waltz has learned…
A significant Baltimore span imploded early Tuesday after it was hit by an enormous holder transport. Six individuals were absent after the impact at the Francis Scott Key Scaffold, as indicated by Paul Wiedefeld, Maryland’s transportation secretary. Two individuals were protected, with one shipped to an ER in difficult condition. The missing individuals might…
Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez said he is ready to accept whatever sentence is handed down by a Santa Clara County judge on March 24. “The way that I handled things is not the way to do it. We cannot put the law in our own hands. I already pled guilty. I know what…
Monday marks the annual Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), which honors transgender, nonbinary and gender-expansive people while drawing attention to the high levels of poverty, discrimination and violence the community faces globally. This year’s TDOV follows President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders that restrict the rights of transgender Americans – impacting their ability to serve in the military, participate…
Cain Velasquez speaks out before his sentencing hearing Death started somewhere. Sure, audiences first saw some students going to France blow up on a plane. Later, we learned the students died because of coworkers on a bridge. But why did those people die? And the ones before them? The first trailer for Final Destination Bloodlines is here and, besides all manner of…