WASHINGTON — While nearly 100 countries are represented at the 2026 Olympics, a few notable countries won't be participating. It's a familiar sight for Olympics watchers: Russian and Belarusian ...

Russia is banned from the 2026 Winter Olympics due to ongoing sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. No Russian hockey players can compete, even as neutral athletes, in team events. Elite NHL players ...

IF ONE BELIEF unites Japan-watchers, it is that its economy is abnormal. The country is home to world-class firms but clocks little economic growth to speak of. Its net public debt to GDP of 130% is ...

Ms. Till is a psychotherapist. My husband and I adopted our son, Abraham, as a toddler, believing we could provide him with a good life. Abi, as we called him, was a bright, curious kid who blossomed ...

The feeling of “take me back” has never been more relevant as 2026 kicks off. On TikTok, the hashtag #2016 has more than 2 million posts, often used to caption throwback photos, old videos and ...

Thousands of X users complained of their social media feeds not loading on Friday morning. User reports of the outage began around 10 a.m. Eastern time (ET) Friday morning, with data shared by ...

The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost. It’s hard to quantify a zeitgeist, but here at WIRED, chronically ...

Your phone SOS? You're not alone. A Verizon outage today, Wednesday, Jan. 14, is causing many users to report that their phone is locked in SOS mode. Thousands of users, including in New England, are ...

President Donald Trump has long disliked Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell. Now, the Justice Department has launched a criminal inquiry into Powell. We look at his probe and what it could ...

Kylian Mbappe is available for Real Madrid’s Spanish Super Cup Final against Barcelona. Mbappe will not start, as he is not fully fit and risk-averse to injury. He is expected to play in the second ...

Millennials and Gen Z are accused of treating finance like a game. They trade options, buy meme coins, play prediction markets and bet on sports as if the entire economy were a casino. The criticism ...

The latest available CPI data shows the beef and veal category is up 14.7% while overall food is up 3.1%. The start of 2025 saw the lowest cattle numbers in the U.S. since 1951. Severe drought over ...