Every Winter Olympics cycle, people turn on their television or whatever device suits their viewing needs and see athletes using a broom to help guide a 44-pound stone down a sheet of ice. The brooms, ...

A few years ago, when I first started experimenting with generative AI as a partner at a consulting firm, I noticed something that surprised me: It was helping me a lot more than it was helping my ...

Sam Darnold and Drake Maye will face off Sunday on the field while you face off with your friends in a game of Super Bowl squares. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Steph Chambers, Cooper ...

Whether you're a NFL fan or not, there's always something fun for everyone on Super Bowl Sunday. Most watch the Super Bowl for the football, but the National Anthem can sometimes bring out goosebumps ...

Senators left Washington this week without a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), sending the federal government barreling toward another partial shutdown as funding for the ...

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Editor's note: Follow Olympics opening ceremony live updates from Milano Cortina. Over the next few weeks, the sports world zeros its attention on Italy as more than 3,000 athletes from 93 countries ...

Olympic sliding sports – bobsled, luge and skeleton – are known for their speed. Athletes chase medals down a track of ice at up to 80 or 90 mph. "To me, it felt like the closest thing you could get ...

In 1869, a group of Massachusetts reformers persuaded the state to try a simple idea: counting. The Second Industrial Revolution was belching its way through New England, teaching mill and factory ...

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A partial government shutdown entered its fourth day on Tuesday, Feb. 3, though impacts are expected to be much less than the record, 43-day shutdown last fall. The partial shutdown comes as Democrats ...

It’s a weird time for jobs numbers. Another month, another jobs report pushed back by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Averaging two private sources, ADP and Revelio Labs: an estimated 4,500 jobs were ...