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The Tokyo Games have 18 new events this year as part of a push toward gender equity. There are an equal number of women and men for every sport, excluding baseball and softball because of differing roster sizes.

For the past week, they’ve played the national anthem one time a night at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials.

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The discussion around the latest COVID-19 relief bill has hit a hurdle, just as Congress was close to a deal. “In terms of the direct stimulus, in terms of unemployment, housing, those issues now, small businesses with the [Paycheck Protection Program], all those issues, there is an immediacy,” Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman Dwight […]

For many lower-skilled workers, $15 an hour has increasingly become a reality.

The nerves were there. They were unavoidable, really. Yet rather than greet them with anxiety or fear as she did the last time she stood on the competition floor, Laurie Hernandez embraced them.

CONIFER, Colo. — In a place where holiday and stage lights blend together, The Venue Theatre in Conifer gets ready to put on it’s annual holiday show. But organizers and members can’t ignore a member of this family who can’t be there.  In every corner of this space, you can see pictures of Maggie Long. The […]

PARK COUNTY, Colo. — The Park County Sheriff’s Office said on Monday that they believe 17-year-old Maggie Long was “purposefully set on fire and burned alive” inside her Bailey home on Dec. 1, 2017. Sheriff Tom McGraw said that there are three suspects still at large in the case who they say spent a “significant […]

CONIFER, Colo. — The memory of Maggie Long lives on inside the lobby of the Venue Theatre Company in Conifer. It’s where her loved ones have decided to honor and remember her one year after her still-unsolved disappearance and death. It lives on through her own words which are framed on the wall. Long’s friend and […]

(Stacker) Black History Month is dedicated to celebrating the achievements and reflecting on the experiences of African Americans. What began as a week in 1926 has blossomed into 28 days of remembrance and lessons on the contributions of Black Americans. Many Black Americans come from a lineage of captured and enslaved people who were forcibly […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Follow along for real-time, on-the-ground updates on the 2022 U.S. midterm elections from The Associated Press. Live updates — all times Eastern — are produced by Ashraf Khalil, Annie Ma, Aamer Madhani, Chris Megerian, Mallika Sen and AP journalists around the country. ___ READ MORE Election Day, Election Night, Election Morning After: […]

When 16-year-old Newt Johnson found out his little sister was sick, he was ready to do anything for her. That included growing out his hair until it was long enough to make a wig, in case she needed it. But because of his school’s policies, that also meant withdrawing from his high school. His sister […]

BAILEY, Colo. — The home in which a 17-year-old Bailey girl was found dead in December was targeted, investigators said on Friday. Maggie Long’s body was discovered in at a home on County Road 43 in Bailey on Dec. 1, 2017. The Platte Canyon High School student’s body was found in a burned house that had […]