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There was a time when you could not find a game of women’s basketball on American television, even one being played for a championship. Pat Summitt helped to change that. There was a time when you could attend a basketball game played by women and sit anyplace in the house — empty seats, no waiting […]

Police blame a bloody family feud for the shooting death of a 39-year-old mother of two outside her upstate New York home. Four years after the attack, a hunt continues for the suspect: her 77-year-old father-in-law. The story behind Tammy Palmer’s death started innocently enough, with run-of-the-mill conflicts that many families deal with every day. […]

Newly released police call logs give a glimpse into the sheer chaos that unfolded inside Orlando’s Pulse nightclub during the attack that killed 43 people and wounded 53 others. The calls between dispatchers and law enforcement give a raw, unfiltered look at what police were learning from 911 callers who were detailing the chilling observations […]

This week West Virginians likely will escape any more of the flooding that has wreaked havoc across several counties, taking 23 lives — a figure authorities warned may rise. But for the families on Mill House Road in White Sulphur Springs — many of them kin — any new flooding could hardly make things worse. […]

Tracie remembers when she met Elby Hars and his daughter Terri Hars, a day that would forever change the path of her life. About age 12 at the time, Tracie and her mom had stopped at a store near their home in Richland County, South Carolina, when they happened to run into the Hars. “I […]

Novak Djokovic may currently be the alpha male of the tennis court — but Roger Federer remains the greatest player in history. It’s not only that Federer is the most successful man across the generations, with a record 17 grand slam titles, but also that he plays with such style and grace. My new book […]

Investors are already sifting through the Brexit rubble for stocks unfairly caught in the market turmoil. Stocks rebounded a bit on Tuesday, making up some ground lost after the U.K. vote to leave the European Union that erased a record $3 trillion from global stock markets. There are signs that investors of all stripes — […]

The overwhelming majority of Americans believe the economy is rigged. Seventy-one percent think the U.S. economic system is “rigged in favor of certain groups,” according to a new poll by Marketplace and Edison Research. The poll asked a simple question: Which of the following comes closer to your opinion on the economic system in the […]

Another rescue effort will be made to save the life of a blue whale apparently enmeshed in a fishing net in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, authorities said Tuesday. The whale, entangled in crab or fishing lines, was spotted about 3:30 p.m. ET Monday, swimming off the coast of Dana Point in […]

Tim Tebow made a name for himself on football fields, but passengers on a recent Delta flight got a different glimpse of the former NFL star. Tebow rushed to the aid of a family that was dealing with a medical emergency on a Phoenix-bound Delta flight Sunday, praying with them and helping them with their […]

An uncut 1,109-carat diamond is set to be auctioned off Wednesday in London. It’s the largest uncut diamond in the world and the second largest ever found. The sale comes at a time that the British pound has lost more than 10% of its value due to the Brexit vote. That has already put a […]

Californians: A solution to the drought may be under your feet, according to a study from Stanford scientists. Thousands of feet beneath the surface of the state’s Central Valley, one of the world’s biggest agricultural hubs, there may be up to 2,700 cubic kilometers of usable groundwater — nearly three times more than the amount […]

If Instagram has taught us anything, it’s that people enjoy food with the mouth, the heart and the eyes. Esben Holmboe Bang, head chef of Olso’s three-Michelin-starred Maaemo restaurant, loves to share snapshots with his followers which sum up the Maaemo philosophy of celebrating the close relationship between Norway’s nature, produce and cultural history. We […]

Iceland shocked the world as it ousted England from Euro 2016 Monday with a well deserved 2-1 knockout victory in Nice. And with a population of just over 330,000 compared to England’s 53 million, the tiny Nordic nation quickly became the toast of the Twitteratti. ESPN’s Marc Stein highlighted the scale of Iceland’s achievement by […]

One of the architects of Britain’s seismic decision to leave the European Union was given a hostile reception at a special meeting of the EU Parliament called to address the crisis Tuesday. As the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage has been a leading voice calling Britain to leave the European Union […]

Hiral Sanghavi is at it again. Less than a year after the Kickstarter campaign for his BauBax jacket raised a whopping $9.2 million, he’s debuting his next project — clothes that wirelessly charge your devices. The project launched Tuesday on Kickstarter with a goal of raising $100,000. With this line, his Seattle startup Baubax is […]

A record $3 trillion was wiped out from global markets on Friday and Monday. That means more money was vaporized as a result of the Brexit crash than in any previous two-day period ever, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. Friday’s losses of $2.1 trillion were already the heaviest suffered in a single market day, […]

Pat Summitt, who built the University of Tennessee’s Lady Volunteers into a perennial power on the way to becoming the winningest coach in the history of major college basketball, has died. Summitt passed away Tuesday after battling early onset dementia, “Alzheimer’s type,” according to a statement from the Pat Summitt foundation. She was 64. “Since […]

Dissecting an attack. Heading for the exit. Setting up for failure? It’s Tuesday, and here are the 5 things you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. 1. Benghazi report The likelihood of an attack in Benghazi was high and Hillary Clinton should have known about it. That’s the gist […]

Tom Morello was raging against the political machine decades before anti-establishment sentiments made their way into 2016 politics. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist, reflect the ideological span of anti-establishment sentiment. But to the Rage Against the Machine guitarist, neither Trump nor Sanders are the answer because […]

Airbnb is taking its hometown to federal court. The company has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco, objecting to short-term rental rule changes approved by its Board of Supervisors. A new ordinance set to take effect in late July would require all Airbnb hosts to register with the city. If they do […]

It’s the video that Sen. Bernie Sanders never had: footage of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on camera praising the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership as “the gold standard” in trade agreements. The Republican National Committee recently obtained video of Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, on an overseas trip in 2012 praising the TPP, a […]

Asian markets were struggling to shrug off some of the Brexit gloom on Tuesday. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 0.8%, while Australian stocks shed 0.6%. But the Nikkei in Tokyo clambered into positive territory, posting a 0.6% gain after earlier falling as much as 1.9%. British voters’ decision to leave the EU in a referendum […]

British Prime Minister David Cameron will face European Union leaders Tuesday as the bloc meets to discuss the UK’s potentially convoluted and messy divorce from the European Union. The EU parliament will open an extraordinary plenary session of its Conference of Presidents in what will be the first official steps to extricate the UK from […]

With the largest coral reef ecosystem in the world, the Great Barrier Reef is one of seven natural wonders of the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It’s also the world’s top travel destination, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2016-17 best destination rankings, released Tuesday. “It’s a once in a lifetime vacation, […]