There are moments when I still wake up in terror, my heart pounding, convinced I’m back in those dark tunnels beneath Gaza. Then reality slowly breaks through—I am free. After 471 days held hostage by Hamas, I have returned to the world of light, of family, of possibility. But my heart remains heavy, knowing that […]
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WNBA legend Diana Taurasi eats words about Caitlin Clark: ‘Reality is coming to me now’
After Caitlin Clark’s record-breaking rookie campaign in the WNBA, one basketball legend is owning up to her thoughts that things would have been tough for the Iowa product. Diana Taurasi, who recently announced her retirement from the WNBA after 20 illustrious seasons, was on her “Bird & Taurasi Show” with fellow WNBA star Sue Bird […]
Hitler wanted to kill me because I’m Jewish. Putin wants to kill me because I’m Ukrainian
Editor’s Note: The following is a translated transcript of the address delivered by Roman Shvartsman, the chairman of the Odesa Association of Jews and a Holocaust survivor, at the Yalta European Strategy (YES) Special Gathering hosted by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 24, 2025, marking the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale […]
Olympic gold medalist says DC plane crash hits home as an athlete: ‘That could have been me’
The plane crash near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night struck the sports world when it was revealed that members of the figure skating community were among those on the American Airlines flight. Six members of the Skating Club of Boston were aboard Flight 5342, and U.S. Figure Skating said in a statement that […]
It Was Me All Along: My Story of Losing 100 Pounds and Finding Myself
The thinness I’d achieved came with its own brand of indignity. It was the fear of gaining back each pound, of proving myself a failure, that plagued me. It was the fatness of my shadow that followed me into the dark alley of an eating disorder…. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andie-mitchell-/was_me_all_along_b_6423350.html