Since her nomination to the Supreme Court, Justice Amy Coney Barrett has faced scrutiny from all sides. She weathered a swift and strong backlash from former supporters this month when she joined Democratic-appointed justices to reject President Trump’s request to freeze foreign aid funds. In the days after the decision, members of her family received … Read more
Kirsty Coventry was elected on Thursday as the 10th president of the International Olympic Committee, capping a monthslong election battle and becoming the first woman and the first African to hold the most powerful role in sports. The election, which has been described in similar language to a papal conclave, was settled — to gasps … Read more
The race for the most powerful post in sports, the presidency of the International Olympic Committee, already enveloped in the secrecy and byzantine regulations of a 130-year-old club, has become stranger — and much nastier — as decision day looms. Smear campaigns have targeted some of the leading contenders in the final days before the … Read more
The Trump administration said Wednesday it would suspend about $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania over its approach to transgender athletes, according to a White House social media account that trumpeted the pause. The move would intensify the government’s campaign against transgender people’s participation in public life and escalate a clash … Read more