Activists say Olympic diplomatic boycotts 'simply not enough,' call for further action against China
Ana Fernandez/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With the open ceremony of the Beijing Olympic games Friday, the movement to boycott the event has been intensifying with a rising number of protests in recent weeks,
Ten Americans to watch at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Matthias Hangst/Getty Images (BEIJING) — It’s only been six months since the festivities wrapped up at Tokyo’s Summer Olympics, but it’s time to learn who will be stealing nightly headlines at the Beijing Winter Games. If you’re
Biden says US raid in Syria killed ISIS leader
Izzeddin Kasim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that a U.S. raid in Syria killed the leader of ISIS. “Last night at my direction, U.S. military forces in northwest Syria successfully undertook
Afghanistan's women’s rights activists tested Taliban in Oslo, but expect few advancements
STIAN LYSBERG SOLUM/NTB/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — “Pick up the phone right now, call Kabul and ask the girls to be released immediately,” Hoda Khamosh, an Afghanistan woman’s rights activist shouted at the Taliban’s acting foreign
Michigan’s 'fairer' election maps challenged for 'diluting' Black vote
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Michigan, one of the nation’s hottest political battlegrounds, is being hailed for a citizen-led effort to transform its famously gerrymandered election maps into some of the fairest and most competitive ahead of
How Olympic figure skating scores work and other facts to know
Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Social media phenom is figure skating for change and representation Figure skating at the Olympics is set to kick off on Friday, starting with the team event’s men’s singles
Tom Holland: 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Oscar nod “would be a huge honor”
David M. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage Oscar nominations are right around the corner, and Tom Holland recently weighed in on the possibility of Spider-Man: No Way Home getting a best picture nod. “It would be a huge honor for it to be nominated
Adrien Brody says 'Clean' is a love letter to the “action revenge” movies of the '70s
Courtesy of IFC Films Adrien Brody says his new ultra-violent action thriller, Clean, isn’t afraid to tackle the hot-button issues of today — because that’s exactly the kind of movie he loved watching as a kid. Speaking with ABC Audio,
Scoreboard roundup — 2/2/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Washington 106, Philadelphia 103 Orlando 119, Indiana 118 Boston 113, Charlotte 107 Memphis 120, New York 108 Houston 115, Cleveland 104 Oklahoma
5 persons of interest in HBCU bomb threat investigation: Source
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The persons of interest were connected to spoofed calls – emanating from a fake telephone number, the FBI official said, according to the source familiar with the contents of a call between