Stanford diving coach Rick Schavone knew he was looking at a prodigy the first time he saw 7-year-old Kristian Ipsen bounce off a springboard. A decade later, while recruiting Ipsen, Schavone told the school's admissions office that Ipsen would ...

DALLAS -- Everything about Holley Mangold is oversized.

Her personality. Her laugh. Her ambition.

But the first thing most people notice is her body, which, at 5 feet 9 and 350 pounds, is hard to miss.

"I'm huge," Mangold says with pride, not ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- It was a Wednesday morning in front of the last abortion clinic in Mississippi. C. Roy McMillan was camped outside, as he almost always is.

He tapped on the car window of a woman who had just been inside the Jackson Women's ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Babies can be good yoga partners. Just ask the folks at Pacific Cultural Center's Ashtanga Yoga Institute.

Babies live in the present moment, are flexible and like to stretch. But the Mama & Baby Yoga classes are really for ...

In late April, Alexandra Bach Lagos had one of those rough weeks most lawyers dread. She spent three days out of town conducting depositions, returned and put in two more 12-hour days. While the schedule would be taxing for anyone, it was ...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama praised the "founding mothers," his female appointees and the women of his own family on Monday as he urged a class of Barnard College graduates to "reach high and hope deeply" and thereby change the world.

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