LOS ANGELES — When Casey Wasserman boarded Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet for a two-week tour of Africa in 2002, he had little inkling he was embarking on a journey that could imperil his fortune.

The 28-year-old scion of Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman was already the heir of a multimillion-dollar philanthropic foundation, the owner of a ...Read more

MILAN — The hockey group-play game between the U.S. and Canada at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games on Tuesday was both meaningless and vitally important.

For the record, the U.S. breezed to a 5-0 win behind two goals from Hannah Bilka, a goal and two assists from Carolina Harvey and three assists from Abbey Murphy. It was another complete, ...Read more

MILAN — Curler Korey Dropkin had been hoping to mount an Olympic victory podium since before he started grade school. On Tuesday, he finally made the final steps of that climb alongside mixed doubles partner Cory Thiesse, but the medal he got wasn't the color he'd dreamed it would be with the Swedish brother-sister combo of Isabella and ...Read more

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Austria's Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber won gold in the women's Alpine team combined Tuesday at the Milan-Cortina Olympics after Mikaela Shiffrin finished 15th in the slalom portion of the event.

Shiffrin's teammate, Breezy Johnson, finished first in the downhill portion, but Shiffrin's performance in the ...Read more

MILAN — The world is experiencing more conflict and turmoil than at any point since the Berlin Wall came down nearly four decades ago.

There are hot wars in Ukraine and Gaza, cold wars on the Korean peninsula and in the Taiwan Strait, and budding wars in Iran and parts of Africa. The Global Peace Index is at its lowest level ever.

But four ...Read more

MILAN — The Pyeongchang Olympics sparked two Olympic dreams.

There, Chloe Kim reached superstar status, winning at 17 to become the youngest woman to claim an Olympic snowboarding gold medal. At 11 years old, Bea Kim watched in awe.

"To see somebody who looked like me, who's from the same area as me do something that incredible, I was like,...Read more

There are seven players on the Colorado Avalanche who were pretty easy selections to represent their country at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Sure, there was some initial backlash about Brock Nelson with the United States team, but a lot of that was people wrongly lumping him in with a couple of other guys who probably should have been left off the...Read more

Kelly Pannek was introduced to the USA-Canada rivalry on April 7, 2017, in Plymouth, Mich., in the gold medal game of the IIHF Women’s World Championship. Just 21 years old then, she looked over at the Canada bench and felt a surge of determination.

She knew the Canadian players. She had played with some of them in the past. But this time, ...Read more

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Lindsey Vonn’s downhill run lasted 13 seconds. The question of whether she should have been racing at all with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament will be debated for years.

The legendary 41-year-old ski racer, whose violent crash resulted in her being airlifted off the course and in surgery hours later Sunday ...Read more

MILAN — He raised up the Quad King. He refined the jump that defined the Quad God.

From a sprawling ice facility in Irvine, Rafael Arutyunyan could just be the "Quad Maker."

The 68-year-old figure skating coach is renowned as one of the best technicians in the world. He trained Olympic champion Nathan Chen starting when the "Quad King" was ...Read more

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Lindsey Vonn's downhill run lasted 13 seconds. The question of whether she should have been racing at all with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament will be debated for years.

What was going on in the mind of the legendary 41-year-old ski racer, whose violent crash resulted in her being airlifted off the course and...Read more

MILAN — Chloe Kim is prepared to defend her Olympic title, even with one healthy shoulder.

When the halfpipe superstar tore her labrum in her left shoulder in training a month ago, her hopes of becoming the first person to win three consecutive Olympic snowboarding gold medals were in jeopardy. But she said during a news conference in ...Read more

MILAN — Brittany Bowe will not leave her last 1,000-meter race on Olympic ice with a medal. She'll take something more valuable.

"What makes this more special than anything is having my mom, my dad, my sister, up there in the stands cheering for me," said Bowe, who finished fourth in her strongest speedskating event Monday at Milano Speed ...Read more