Eighteen-year-old freestyle ski star Eileen Gu of China could become the first action-sports athlete to win Olympic gold in three separate events at the Beijing Games.
The Republican Party on Friday censured two of its own over their involvement in a congressional investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill, which the party described as "ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse."
Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping issued a joint statement highlighting what it called "interference in the internal affairs" of other states, as both leaders face criticism from Washington over their foreign and domestic policies.
The U.S. military investigation into the deadly attack during the Afghanistan evacuation has concluded that a suicide bomber carrying explosives packed with ball bearings acted alone, and that the deaths of more than 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members were not preventable.
Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of charges he cheated the porn actor Stormy Daniels out of nearly $300,000 US she was supposed to get for writing a book about an alleged tryst with former president Donald Trump.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday praised "unprecedented" close relations with China, as he met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing hours ahead of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
Rescuers inched closer Friday to reaching a five-year-old boy trapped for three days in a Morocco well in an operation hampered by concerns about ground stability.
