August 2019

Mikulak cruises to 6th national title in men’s gymnastics

Samuel Mikulak doesn’t show off the stash of medals he’s earned from the U.S. men’s gymnastics championships through the years. They sit in relatively anonymity in the basement of the place he shares with his girlfriend back in Colorado. It’s not that Mikulak doesn’t appreciate what he’s accomplished. It’s just that two-time Olympian’s standard of […]

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Student Wins $725,000 in Lawsuit Over ‘Troll Storm’ Led by The Daily Stormer

The first African-American female student body president of American University won a $725,000 judgment on Friday in a lawsuit against Andrew Anglin, the publisher of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer who incited a racist “troll storm” targeting her, a judge ruled. This was the third judgment in the past three months against Mr. Anglin.

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Armada: Inside the world’s biggest independent dance label

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Armin van Buuren, Armada’s co-founder, is the 10th highest-paid DJ in the world In a drab Dutch office block, a few doors down from the local branch of Carpetright and opposite a crane dredging sludge from the Schinkel canal, lives one of the world’s most vibrant and influential record

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Why smartphones are no longer driving the search for ‘blue gold’

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption A conveyor belt carries chunks of raw cobalt at a plant in Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo Cobalt is one of those metals that define the modern world. Historically it was used to colour glass or ceramics. The Egyptians were using cobalt compounds 2,600 years ago in

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