In a news release, the Coast Guard said that a helicopter crew rescued two adults and their 6-year-old child from their home and took them to the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport on Saturday.
A Muslim imam was killed and a second man was critically wounded on Saturday while walking home from afternoon prayers at a mosque in the New York City borough of Queens. More than 100 people attended a rally Saturday night and chanted “We want justice!”
But the 20-year-old, whose win was all the more remarkable because she was involved in a rare dead-heat for gold, also hoped the day would come when questions about her race would refer to what happened in the pool rather than her ethnicity. “The hardest challenge (now) is...
Her victory – the last before her retirement – was considered unlikely against Hungary’s “Iron Lady” Katinka Hosszu, who ultimately came in second. She’s looking to complete a sweep of the 200, 400 and 800 freestyles for the first time since...