21+ hour, 8+ min ago   (431+ words) Getting to a fifth consecutive title game was a little harder than the previous few, as they beat Spain 76-66 on Saturday in the semifinals. The Americans had averaged winning the previous four semifinals by 26 points, including a 40-point rout of…...

22+ hour, 14+ min ago   (449+ words) Lowry lost his three-shot advantage at the start when Jacob Skov Olesen of Denmark finished the front nine eagle-birdie to go out in 31 and share the lead. And then the Irishman couldn’t miss. It started with a 5-foot birdie on the…...

22+ hour, 16+ min ago   (325+ words) The Americans will face France in a rematch of the 2024 Paris Olympics gold medal game that the U.S. won by a point. The U.S. has won 35 straight games in the World Cup going back to a loss to Russia in the semifinals…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (168+ words) A number of universities in the D.C. region are getting high marks in the new Forbes ranking of the nation’s top colleges. The University of Virginia is the highest-ranked public university in the region on Forbes’ 2027 list. UVA came in at…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (234+ words) The longest road trip in NFL history has brought the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams to Melbourne, Australia, for a season opener before more than 100,000 fans packed into the Southern Hemisphere’s largest stadium. The NFC West rivals are…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (222+ words) Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year as home shoppers grappled with rising mortgage rates and home prices. Existing home sales fell 2% last month from July to a seasonally…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (468+ words) NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie, a U.S. citizen for the past decade, is to receive a literary honor reserved for the elite of American writers — a National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement. “Although I lived here for many, many years…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (408+ words) Missouri’s battle over its congressional districts has spanned more than a year and spawned confusion over which districts will be in place for voters. Missouri’s top court previously ordered Hoskins not to use a Trump-backed map in the general election…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (464+ words) The U.S. will play the winner of the Spain-Australia game on Saturday in the medal round. France played China and Belgium played host Germany in the other quarterfinal matchups. The Americans have now won 34 consecutive games in the tournament dating to…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (242+ words) The Americans have won 33 consecutive games in the tournament and are three victories away from their fifth consecutive World Cup title. They’ll face Hungary on Thursday in one of four quarterfinal matchups. France will play China; Belgium faces host Germany…...