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Stephen Curry tells the AP why 2024 is the right time to make his Olympic debut
Golden State guard Stephen Curry knew he was running out of chances to play in what would be his first Olympics, so he and his wife Ayesha started planning many months ago about how to make the Paris Games work for their family.
Their growing family, that is.
Ayesha Curry revealed in March that she is pregnant with the coupl ... (full story)
Unconventional travel tips
I’m going to tap into my mind’s trusty old way back machine for a nostalgic little adventure I did a number of years ago.
The place was Arizona, where during a beautiful April weekend a hiking buddy and I arrived in Phoenix, rented a car, high tailed it to the Grand Canyon, did an overnight backpacker down to the bo ... (full story)
Is this the dawn of a new era in women's sports?
(THE CONVERSATION) Though the college career of Iowa's Caitlin Clark ended with a disappointing loss, the point guard's record-breaking season helped fuel widespread interest in this year's NCAA women's college basketball tournament.
The women's Final Four garnered higher television ratings than the men's Final Four. Then the wo ... (full story)
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'The movement will persist': Advocates stress Weinstein reversal doesn't derail #MeToo reckoning
NEW YORK (AP) — #MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there's a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it's alive again.
So Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase "Me too" from her work with sexual assault survivors, found herself ... (full story)
Key moments from arguments on Trump's immunity claims
WASHINGTON (AP) — There was talk of drone strikes and presidential bribes, of a potential ruling "for the ages" and of the Founding Fathers, too. The presidential race went unmentioned but was not far from mind.
The Supreme Court heard more than 2 1/2 hours worth of arguments on the landmark question of whether f ... (full story)
Arizona's 1864 abortion law was made in a women's rights desert
(THE CONVERSATION) Dora Juhl, a 15-year-old teenager, walked into Dr. Rosa Goodrich Boido's obstetrical practice in Phoenix in January 1918. Juhl wanted to end her pregnancy.
But abortion was illegal in Arizona.
Boido, the city's sole female physician, asked Juhl for US$100 – about $2,000 today – to perform the a ... (full story)
Large retailers don't have smokestacks, but they generate a lot of pollution
(THE CONVERSATION) Did you receive a mail-order package this week? Carriers in the U.S. shipped 64 packages for every American in 2022, so it's quite possible.
That commerce reflects the expansion of large-scale retail in recent decades, especially big-box chains like Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Home Depot that sell goods both ... (full story)