Katie Ledecky joined an elite club Tuesday night, earning her sixth trip to the world championships with a dominating victory in the 800-meter freestyle at the U.S. nationals. Ledecky was under her own world-record pace for much of the race before settling
The Miami Marlins completed a three-game sweep Sunday, defeating the Washington Nationals 4-2 to move 10 games over .500 for the first time in 12 years. The Marlins improved to 41-31 and are off to the second-best start in franchise history through
Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez was irate after the team’s loss to the Houston Astros on Wednesday night and came to the press conference with a visual aid. In the wild bottom of the ninth inning, Astros slugger Jose Abreu scored on
The Los Angeles Dodgers reinviting the anti-Catholic protest group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, has received backlash galore from players inside the organization as well as outside. One of those not in the Dodgers’ clubhouse was Washington Nationals starter Trevor Williams, whose
Another Major League Baseball game has been postponed due to poor air quality as smoke has impacted the northeastern part of the country as a result of the ongoing wildfires in Canada. The Washington Nationals game against the Arizona Diamondbacks was scheduled
At one point, Stephen Strasburg held the record for the most lucrative contract ever given to a pitcher before it was broken a few days later by Gerrit Cole. In December 2019, Strasburg signed a seven-year, $245 million deal with the Washington
A baseball fan is still alive today after another fan saved his life with the Heimlich maneuver at Wednesday’s Washington Nationals game. Todd Covington hopped two rows of seats when he saw the fan choking after people in section 113 of Nationals
Sir Keir Starmer will give the vote to millions of EU nationals if Labour wins the next general election. Under manifesto plans for the biggest expansion of the franchise in almost a century, the Labour leader would hand the vote to settled
President Vladimir Putin lifted a 2019 ban on direct flights to the South Caucasus nation and abolished visas for Georgian nationals on Wednesday. Russia-Georgia relations have been rocky and complicated since the Soviet Union’s collapse in the early 1990s. Putin said his
A missing yacht with three Russians and two Egyptians onboard reached safety in Djibouti in east Africa on Thursday, after going missing for days following an attack off the coast of Yemen, its owner said. Owner Dmitriy Chuguevskiy told The Associated Press