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U.S. swimmers won only one gold on Thursday. But Katie Ledecky's silver medal in a relay race brought her career tally to thirteen Olympic medals, more than any other woman swimmer in history.

For decades, the U.S. dominated the men's 400-meter race, one of the most difficult and prestigious events at any Olympic Games. But no American man had won gold since 2008 — until Wednesday.

With exquisite prose, smart lines on every page, a building sense of growing strangeness tinged with dread, and surprises all the way to the end, this might be Laura van den Berg's best novel so far.

Alice Munro died in May at the age of 92. Her daughter Andrea Skinner wrote a Toronto Star op-ed revealing her stepfather abused her as a child for years.

The death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in prison was shocking, but hardly surprising. It follows a long line of fallen critics and opponents of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Bed bug infestations can happen anywhere at any time, but diligence during the holiday travel season can help prevent problems.

That's the adjective used by the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Global Immunization Division. Can the world bring this outbreak under control?

Metallic prisms have been appearing across the world since one was found in Utah in 2020, but in many cases it’s still unclear who created them and why.

Morgan Talty's debut novel is a touching narrative about family in which the past and present are constantly on the page as we follow a man's life, while also entertaining what that life could have been.

The Bolivian general who appeared to be behind the rebellion, Juan José Zúñiga, was arrested after the attorney general opened an investigation against him. It wasn't immediately clear what the charges were against him.