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Bronze medalist Jessie Diggins of Team USA celebrates with a flag during the Women's Cross-Country Sprint Free Final flower ceremony on Day 4 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Zhangjiakou, China.

Jessie Diggins wins first-ever U.S. Olympic medal in cross-country sprint

Diggins snared a hard-won bronze medal in the grueling event after Swedish skiers took an early lead. The only other time a U.S. athlete has won an individual medal in cross country came in 1976.

This week Vice President Harris announced new actions the Biden administration is taking to help people in the United States struggling with medical debt.

What the White House's actions on medical debt could mean for consumers

The Biden administration announced new measures to ease the financial burden of high medical bills. Here's how the measures can help and what's still missing to protect patients.

Julia and Max Voloshyn, owners of a gallery in Kyiv, were in Miami to exhibit Ukrainian art when first COVID and then the Russian invasion kept them from returning home.

With the war, a Ukrainian art show gains new meaning

Gallery owners Julia and Max Voloshyn came to Miami five months ago to exhibit the work of Ukrainian artists. Now that Russia has invaded their homeland, they can't go back.

Congress is debating legislation banning lawmakers from trading individual stocks. There is already a Senate rule requiring committee aides to divest stocks of any businesses they oversee.

Ethics advocates say Senate staffers could be breaking rules on stock ownership

There is no ban on lawmakers trading stocks, but there is one for Senate committee aides overseeing industries before their panels. One review found five aides appear to be violating ethics rules.

Biden to give Afghanistan's frozen assets to humanitarian aid, then 9/11 victims

Scott Simon speaks to Foreign Policy columnist Lynne O'Donnell about President Biden's decision to give half of Afghanistan's $7 billion in frozen assets to victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Pfizer and BioNTech begin testing an omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine

The highly contagious variant has still led to breakthrough cases and a surge in infections worldwide.

USA's Alexandra Carpenter skates with the puck during the women's preliminary round of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games ice hockey competition between USA and Canada on Tuesday.

Canada defeats U.S. in women's hockey to renew classic Olympic rivalry in Beijing

Canada's 4-2 victory over the U.S. in group play gives the Canadians the top-seed heading into the quarterfinals. The U.S., the defending gold medalists, also advance to the quarterfinals.

Because space shuttle missions went up to repair and refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope, it has a relatively large carbon footprint compared to other telescopes.

Astronomy's contribution to climate change rivals the emissions from some countries

Building and operating telescopes can generate a lot of greenhouse gases. In fact, it's as if each astronomer in the world was driving more than 100,000 miles per year, a new study finds.

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Wednesday, after North Korea fired an "unidentified projectile."

North Korean missile test ends in failure, as South and U.S. watch for ICBM test

North Korea is reportedly working up to testing of a longer-range intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the whole of the continental U.S.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs the Parental Rights in Education bill at Classical Preparatory School in Spring Hill, Fla., on Monday, March 28, 2022.

Teachers fear the chilling effect of Florida's so-called 'Don't Say Gay' law

Now that Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed the Parental Rights in Education bill into law, teachers fear it will muzzle speech and further stigmatize LGBTQ youth.

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