NEW YORK – Eighteen former National Basketball Association players were charged on Thursday, October 7, 2021, with defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan out of $3.9 million by seeking reimbursement for medical and dental work…
WASHINGTON — Olympic gymnast Simone Biles held back tears on Wednesday, as she told lawmakers how the FBI and U.S. gymnastic and Olympic officials failed to stop the sexual abuse that she and hundreds of other athletes…
LONDON—Afghan athlete Zakia Khudadadi made a plea for help on Tuesday as she sought to escape Kabul and revive her shattered dream of becoming the country’s first female competitor at a Paralympic Games. The Afghanistan Paralympic Committee…
WELLINGTON — Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put New Zealand under strict lockdown on Tuesday after the country’s first coronavirus case in six months was reported in the largest city of Auckland. Ardern’s “go hard, go early” strategy has helped…
LONDON — Two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine are nearly as effective against the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant as they are against the previously dominant Alpha variant, a study published on Wednesday showed. Officials…
TOKYO—The Tokyo Olympics will take place without spectators, organizers said on Thursday, July 8, 2021, as a resurgent pandemic forced Japan to declare a coronavirus state of emergency for the capital that will run throughout the event.…
WASHINGTON – The Biden administration plans to donate 500 million Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses to nearly 100 countries over the next two years, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. The United States is…
Anthony Davis amassed 34 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists as the Los Angeles Lakers earned a 109-102 victory over the host Phoenix Suns on Tuesday (Wednesday morning, May 26, 2021, Philippine time) to even their first-round…
Pop superstar Lady Gaga is offering a $500,000 reward for the return of her French bulldogs Koji and Gustav that were stolen in Hollywood, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, after reports that her…
LOS ANGELES – Reality star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian on Friday filed for divorce from her rapper husband Kanye West after almost seven years of marriage and months of rumors that their relationship had broken down.…
CONAKRY — The World Health Organization has asked six African countries to be alert for possible Ebola infections, as Guinea on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, reported new cases and Democratic Republic of Congo said its new infections…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it had approved the first COVID-19 self-testing kit for home use that provides results within 30 minutes. The single-use test, made by Lucira Health, has been given emergency…
