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  • Hackers Release Data On 25 More Athletes From 8 Countries
    Hackers who this week published confidential medical records of top U.S. Olympic athletes are at it again. The World Anti Doping agency confirmed the hackers released data on 25 more athletes.
  • Kenya's Jemima Sumgong celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's marathon Sunday in Rio in a time of 2:24:04. Despite Kenya's wealth of distance running talent, she's the first from her country to win the women's marathon since it was introduced to the Olympics in 1984.
    Kenya's Jemima Sumgong Pulls Away To Take Women's Marathon
    The Kenyan took the lead with about two miles to go and never looked back. All three Americans finished in the top 10, but they failed to make the medal podium.
  • Tiger Woods spends some time on the driving range during Monday's practice round for the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga.
    Tiger At The Masters: The Juncture Of Exhilaration And Peril
    When Tiger Woods tees off at Augusta National Golf Club this week, he will have overcome injuries and personal scandal. But commentator Frank Deford wonders whether a Masters win for Woods would be a comeback or his way of getting back at his detractors.
  • Kenyans watch a presentation at the "mobile apps garage showcase" this in Nairobi.
    Young Kenyans Build Mobile Apps For Local Use
    College students and recent graduates crammed the top floor of a tech hub in Nairobi for a competition built around the theme "Solutions for the Next Billion Mobile Users." Africa has more than 600 million mobile phone users (approximately 11 percent of the global total) – and the number is growing.
  • Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has approved $100 million in bonds to repair the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
    Indianapolis Speedway Needs Boost, But With Taxpayer Funds?
    Indiana's governor has approved $100 million in bonds to help repair the private stadium, arguing its economic benefit to the region is worth the cost. But even some race fans aren't sure that should be a top priority.
  • The vineyard at Round Pond Estate in Rutherford, Calif. Napa Valley is just one of wine-growing regions across the country.
    Wine Revolution: As Drinkers And Growers, U.S. Declares Independence
    Americans aren't just the world's top wine market. Increasingly, they're also producers. The number of U.S. wineries has climbed from 400 to 7,000 since the 1970s. And some of those local wines are "stunning," says wine expert Jancis Robinson.
  • A Very, Very, Very Delicate Balance
    This can't be. How does that big heavy rock stay pivoted on top of that itsy bitsy one, which is hanging precariously onto the one below? Yet they do. The beauty of balance.
  • Report: Nonpartisan Research Service Pulls Tax Report After GOP Complaints
    The report challenged a Republican tenet, finding little evidence that lowering taxes on the very wealthy actually spurred economic growth.
  • Abraham Lincoln's iconic stovepipe hat is on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill.
    Is Honest Abe's Stovepipe Hat A Fake?
    State officials in Illinois want to conduct DNA tests on the top hat on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum to see if he ever really wore it. Museum officials think the idea is worse than bad.
  • Defense: Too Many Documents 'Classifed' In Rosen Leak Case
    The lawyer for a former State Department contractor accused of leaking top-secret data to Fox News says that intelligence agencies are calling too many harmless documents "classified." In federal court, attorney Abbe D. Lowell cited an example: a note between the defendant and his child.
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