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Jessie Diggins Is Ready to Break New Ground. Again.
“I like to go really slow, like 10-minute miles,” Jessie Diggins said this fall as she snapped on a vest…
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Wales Fans Wanted a World Cup Experience. So They Went to Spain.
TENERIFE, Spain — Bethany Evans’s first experience watching Wales in the World Cup had many of the key components she…
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Century-Old Letters Add New Twist to Michigan-Ohio State Rivalry
Michigan and Ohio State, which meet on Saturday as they jockey for national championship contention, have one of the most…
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Germany Protests FIFA Decision That Blocked Rainbow Armbands
The players who started for Germany in their opening match at the World Cup on Wednesday covered their mouths during…
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Peek Inside a $200-a-Night ‘Room’ at the World Cup in Qatar
DOHA, Qatar — After Sheng Xie, a 33-year-old soccer fan from Vancouver, booked his flight to the World Cup, he…
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What Is Indigenous Power?
Of all the striking monuments you might encounter while driving an overstuffed minivan west across the United States, few leave…
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Overconfident Regulators Caused the Ticketmaster Mess
Before the federal government let Live Nation merge with Ticketmaster in 2010, it obtained some very solemn promises that the…
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Trump Was a Gift That May Not Keep Giving
The 2022 midterm election revealed dangerous cracks in the Democratic coalition, despite the fact that the party held the Senate…
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Elon, the Mosh Pit Called. It Wants ‘Hard Core’ Back.
Have you ever gotten an email at midnight from the boss with an ominous subject line like “a fork in…
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To Understand the F.B.I., You Have to Understand J. Edgar Hoover
In recent years, as I finished writing a biography of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F.B.I. for nearly half…