At her medal ceremony, Stoddard didn’t just step onto that podium. She leaped, then raised her arms in triumph. The saddest Winter Olympian was finally, mercifully, happy.

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I’m a pragmatist, so I’m inclined to take your side. You were horny, your wife was indisposed, you did what you had to do.

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Olympics Jerk Watch is a long-running feature that subjectively rates the jerkiness (or lack thereof) of the Games’ biggest ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. himself took on Monsanto, Roundup’s manufacturer, in a successful 2018 case accusing the company of ...

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My spouse and I are currently expecting our third child. It was very much wanted and planned for.

It’s Bad Bunny’s first No. 1 on the all-genre Hot 100 as a lead artist. Prior to this, he’d topped Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart numerous times but only ever topped the Hot 100 once as a ...

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The Supreme Court declared on Friday that the legal basis for Trump’s unilateral “emergency” tariffs was wholly unlawful and unconstitutional. The economic sanctions law he drew upon, 1977’s ...

So said U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu, directly into a television camera, upon finishing her gold medal–winning routine in Milan on Thursday. The 20-year-old from Oakland, making a triumphant return ...