At the Olympics and beyond, women’s sports media outlets are writing their own playbooks

The Olympics show when women’s sports receive meaningful media attention, they attract an enthusiastic audience.

Vonn, Shiffrin and Brignone among the Olympic skiers voicing concern over receding glaciers

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Team USA skiers Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, along with Italy’s Federica Brignone, are ...

Quirky curling has turned into a betting magnet at the Milan Cortina Olympics

The curling competitions are being held in Cortina, where Sweden beat the U.S. to win the gold medal in mixed doubles. The ...

The children of late civil rights leader Jesse Jackson honor his legacy a day after his death

CHICAGO (AP) — From jokes about his well-known stubbornness to tears grieving the loss of a parent, the adult children of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. gave an emotional tribute Wednesday honoring the ...

Lehigh Valley football scholar-athletes: The bios of the 34 high school standouts being honored on March 1

Last year’s honorees were Will Buck of Emmaus, big school scholar-athlete; Eli Zimmerman of Northwestern Lehigh as small-school scholar-athlete, and Parkland’s Mason Marcks as the Michael “Guut” ...

Tremors from the Epstein files rattle the age-old foundations of Britain’s House of Lords

LONDON (AP) — Fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files has landed on the gilded wood and plush red benches of Britain’s House of Lords. Parliament’s upper chamber is in the spotlight after former U.K.

Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica’s near-freezing deep

Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica before this sleeper shark lumbered warily and briefly into the spotlight of a video camera, researcher Alan Jamieson ...

UN Security Council to hold high-level meeting on Gaza before Trump’s Board of Peace convenes

The U.N. Security Council is set to hold a high-level meeting Wednesday on the Gaza ceasefire deal and Israel’s efforts to expand control in the West Bank before world leaders head to Washington to ...

Bernie Sanders and Gavin Newsom become adversaries over push to tax California billionaires

As national Democrats search for a unifying theme ahead of the fall’s midterm elections, a California proposal to levy a hefty tax on billionaires is turning some of the party’s leading figures into ...

Pasajero indisciplinado obliga a avión a regresar a aeropuerto de Houston

HOUSTON (AP) — Un avión regresó a un aeropuerto de Houston poco después del despegue la madrugada del miércoles debido a un ...

Kyrie Irving no jugará esta temporada con los Mavericks mientras se recupera de lesión de rodilla

DALLAS (AP) — Kyrie Irving no jugará esta temporada, ya que el estelar escolta de los Mavericks de Dallas continúa su recuperación de una lesión de rodilla sufrida hace ...

Legisladores turcos apoyan reformas de paz con grupo armado kurdo

Por SUZAN FRASERANKARA, Turquía (AP) — Un comité parlamentario turco recomendó el miércoles una serie de reformas para impulsar una nueva iniciativa de paz con el grupo ...