In April of last year, elite gymnast Jade Carey mathematically qualified for the Tokyo Olympics with her vault performances at the Apparatus World Cup series from 2018 to 2020. Carey had already qualified for the USA’s four-person team competing for the team medals through the Olympic trials. However, that would have meant that the United States would … Read more
NIHA, Lebanon (AP) — In a village in Lebanon’s scenic Chouf Mountains, 69-year-old Chafik Mershad pulls out a massive rectangular guestbook and reads out despairingly the date when he hosted his last visitor: Nov. 16, 2019. A month earlier, anti-government protests had exploded across the country over taxes and a deteriorating currency crisis. Amid such … Read more
Golf pro George Siller was shot and killed on a Georgia golf course on Saturday. (Photo by Francois Nel/Getty Images) Gene Siller, a 41-year-old pro golfer, was shot and killed on Saturday while on the golf course at Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw, Georgia. Siller worked at Pinetree Country Club, and was at the 10th … Read more
(Bloomberg) — U.S. equity-index futures fell and crude oil traded above $75 per barrel as investors weighed the potential for a more hawkish tilt at the Federal Reserve and OPEC+ tensions over oil production. Contracts on the S&P 500 Index declined after the benchmark index notched up another record on Friday. West Texas Intermediate crude … Read more
A man was murdered in his home at Native American reservation on Long Island, police announced Sunday. Josue Bedell, 47, was found by police on Sunday morning dead with a gunshot wound at his home on Poospatuck Reservation in Mastic, authorities said. Bedell was discovered during a wellness check requested by his family who could … Read more