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Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir wins London Marathon women’s elite race and breaks women’s-only world record

It was billed as a harder race to win than the Olympic marathon gold in Paris and the London Marathon’s elite women’s race did not disappoint as reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a ... Read More

The Olympics are nearly here. For a weary world, they can’t come soon enough.

Start the countdown clock. In exactly 100 days, more than 10,000 athletes and tens of thousands of spectators will converge on Paris for the start of the 33rd Summer Olympic Games, a 16-day ... Read More

World News

The world’s top doping regulator said there was “no credible evidence” to take further action. By Andrew Das, Joe Ward and Matthew Cullen ... Read More

Hilarious moment diver flops off board during Olympic pool opening: ‘My back is fine, but my ego…’

French Olympic diver ... In an Instagram story, the athlete shared a photo of his back covered in red scrapes after his run-in with the diving board. “I’m fine. I didn’t hurt myself ... Read More

American weightlifter breaks world record at final Olympics qualifier, first to do so since 1969

An American weightlifter lifted nearly three times his body weight, breaking a world record ... in a single Olympics in 21 years, Forbes reported. Weightlifting fans won't be seeing Robles in ... Read More

WITF News Stories

Today, he reports on Democrat Shamaine Daniels. This is the sixth story in a series about how each candidate for the 10th Congressional district seat sees their role in, and their vision for ... Read More

'Ban them all.' With Paris Games looming, Chinese doping scandal rocks Olympic sport

The World Anti-Doping Agency acknowledges it knew of doping concerns involving 23 Chinese swimmers before the 2021 Tokyo Games but failed to alert others. Some of those swimmers later won gold medals. Read More

Entertainment News

The aircraft carrying the Grammy winner and others landed at Van Nuys Airport. Courtroom testimony from an assistant director in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin is ... Read More

Taliban leader vows to start stoning and flogging Afghan women again: report

The Taliban’s reclusive leader signaled the hardline Islamist group would begin stoning and flogging women in public again, according to a report ... the Taliban didn’t have the “courage ... Read More

Aboard the eyes in the sky charged with keeping Paris Olympics secure

PARIS — They have the best seats in the house for this summer’s Paris Olympics, but they won’t be ... (NBC News’ parent company, the Comcast-owned NBCUniversal, is the world’s largest ... Read More

World News

The European Union's foreign policy chief said on Monday the Middle East stood "on the edge of the cliff" and called for de-escalation in the conflict between Israel and Iran. Information ... Read More