US Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan What to Know
What will happen to women and minorities? Can the Afghan president hold on to power? These and other pressing questions face a fearful country as the United States military withdraws. Read more...
Summer Camps See Rebound in Interest
After resisting in 2020, many parents see an antidote to a school year when their children have been glued to a computer screen. Read more...
Adam Peaty ahead of schedule for Olympics after another 100m blast
World record holder Adam Peaty declared himself ahead of schedule for the Tokyo Olympics after swimming the fastest 100m breaststroke of the year at the British selection trials in London on Wednesday. Read more...
Chris Evert Tennis stars under more pressure
Former world No. 1 Chris Evert tells CNN that today's tennis stars are under more pressure, due to money and the media, to perform compared with her day. Read more...
Changing Strategy, E.U. Bets Big on Pfizer to Battle Covid
After an early focus on AstraZeneca and months of turmoil, the European Union is pivoting away from the companys vaccine. It has reached agreement for a faster rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot. Read more...
Erika Dickerson-Despenza Wins Blackburn Prize for cullud wattah
The play is about the effect of the Flint, Mich., water crisis on three generations of women. Read more...
Colton Underwood scrubs his Instagram of all old posts... as he starts fresh after coming out as gay
'I have a lot to learn, but I have come a long way,' the former NFL tight-end wrote with the snaps, which showed old friends and new supporting the reality star, who came out on GMA this Wednesday. Read more...
New N.C.A.A. Rule Benefits Athletes Who Transfer Colleges
Under a plan tentatively approved Wednesday, Division I players who transfer will not need to sit out a year before they can play. Read more...
One third of Labour members think Keir Starmer is doing a BAD job
A YouGov survey revealed that 64 per cent of members believe Sir Keir is doing well but 34 per cent said the opposite. Read more...
What the Coronavirus Variants Mean for Testing
Most tests should be able to detect the variants of concern, but test developers and health officials must remain vigilant, scientists say. Read more...
The World Needs Syringes. He Jumped In to Make 5,900 Per Minute.
Rajiv Naths family-run Hindustan Syringes bets it can help meet the pandemic need for billions of barrels and needles. Read more...
Please Stop With the Cheesy Documentary Re-Enactments
We are awash in true-crime docs, and I have made my peace with the hunger for agony-as-entertainment. What I cannot accept is another pointless re-enactment scene. Read more...
Window or Aisle Stall? Equine Frequent Fliers Check In
In the 1930s, trains were the primary transportation for cross-country equine travel. Today horses are frequent fliers. Read more...
Driver warns female motorists to be on high alert against carjackings
A woman has shared a clip on social media warning fellow drivers after a man tried to get her to pull over to retrieve a non-existent phone on her car roof in Sydney's inner-west. Read more...
The Rail Bookshelf A Fillys Growing Mystique
The trainer Tim Snyder and his 6-year-old filly, Lisa's Booby Trap, are part of an unlikely story of love, death and redemption. Read more...
Quadruple stabbing near Norwich leaves one dead and three injured
Father-of-three Dean Allsop was stabbed to death in front of his teenage son in Thorpe St Andrew, near Norwich, on Wednesday. Louise Newell, is one of three people who were injured. Read more...
Mayor Calls for Calm as Chicago Awaits Video of Police Fatally Shooting 13-Year-Old
The body camera footage was expected to be released on Thursday. Read more...
N.C.A.A. Won39;t Cancel Events Over Transgender Laws, Yet
L.G.B.T.Q. advocates have pressed the N.C.A.A. to move events from states considering such laws, but so far the organization has stopped short. Read more...
Art Institute of Chicago Names Its Next Board Chief
Denise Gardner, who will start in the post in November, is believed to be the countrys first Black woman to lead a major museum board. Read more...
Erling Haaland Family links to Man City are a worry, admits Paul Scholes
Erling Haaland's dad, Alf-Inge, represented Manchester City as well as Leeds during his time in England, two of United's biggest rivals, and Paul Scholes is wary of how key those links could be. Read more...
A Tiny Particles Wobble Could Upend the Known Laws of Physics
Experiments with particles known as muons suggest that there are forms of matter and energy vital to the nature and evolution of the cosmos that are not yet known to science. Read more...