Eve Muirhead ends long wait for Olympic gold as GB beat Japan in Beijing final

Eve Muirhead ends long wait for Olympic gold as GB beat Japan in Beijing final

Eve Muirhead guided Great Britain to curling gold with a comprehensive win over Japan in the Olympic final. Twenty years after Rhona Martin’s famous victory in Salt Lake City, Muirhead needed no ‘Stone of Destiny’ drama to achieve her lifelong ambition of leading her Great Britain women’s curling team to glory. In her fourth Winter … Read more

Man takes plane during ferocious storm and ends up landing in 'wrong country'

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Cormac O’Shea from Dublin decided to brave the flight during Storm Eunice, but was left facing a huge delay when he set off from Dublin to Birmingham and landed in the wrong country Cormac O’Shea said the flight was ‘rocky’ but had been hopeful he would make it without any hiccups A man has described … Read more

Mikaela Shiffrin’s 2nd Olympic race also ends early

Mikaela Shiffrin’s 2nd Olympic race also ends early

BEIJING (AP) — Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin’s second race at the Beijing Games was over even more quickly than her first. The 26-year-old American skidded out of control about five seconds into the opening run of the slalom Wednesday and was out of the event, just like that. That was even less time than … Read more

In This Latest Covid Surge, Americans Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet Without Sick Leave

In This Latest Covid Surge, Americans Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet Without Sick Leave

About a quarter of workers don’t get paid sick leave at work. (Jeffrey Greenberg / Education Images / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for The Nation’s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more from The … Read more