❄️ Catch up on our most-read stories from the #Olympics 👇
A Polish speed skater recalled ‘crying like crazy’ in the back of an ambulance after a 3 a.m. knock on her isolation hotel room door. Here’s what happened reut.rs/3v0FK7y@julienpretotRTR@karolosgrohmann@SNkeats
⛸ Russian star figure skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for trimetazidine before she won the team event #gold medal. Here is what you need to know about the banned drug: reut.rs/3uMdk0Q@readkrystalhu
⛸ A tearful Zhu Yi was inconsolable after nerves and pressure got the better of the U.S.-born Chinese figure skater, whose last-place performance knocked China to fifth place from third in the Games' team event reut.rs/3s0rOZe@changran_kim@muyxu
🏒 The Canadian women's hockey team refused to take the ice for nearly an hour while awaiting the ROC's COVID test results.
Canada went on to register a routine 6-1 win after players took the ice wearing masks due to ‘safety and security concerns’ reut.rs/3JvdKwW@SNkeats
⛸ The pressure weighing on teenage figure skaters was all too evident when #silver medalist Alexandra Trusova broke down in tears before the podium ceremony after the women's single event reut.rs/33x6GR0@gabrielletf@PariZemar
🎿 When Eileen Gu won #gold in the Big Air, sales of her ski suit surged 20-fold on JD.com.
Already Team China's most popular athlete, the fashion model and incoming Stanford student is sponsored by two dozen brands reut.rs/3uZfj2b@ParkSuAm1996
💊 The drug scandal engulfing 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is inhumane and the adults responsible should be banned forever, skating legend Katarina Witt said reut.rs/3gZWVy0@julienpretotRTR
🇸🇮 Slovenia won the mixed team ski jumping #gold but the big talking point of the event's first appearance at the #Olympics was a series of disqualifications that hit the favorites and meant world champions Germany failed to make the final reut.rs/3oWI23W
Israel intensified its bombardment of Rafah in Gaza's south and over a dozen members of one family were killed in an air strike, residents said, as the ruined Palestinian enclave's health ministry announced 29,313 deaths in the war so far 1/6 reut.rs/3wrVZgR
In Jerusalem, Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz cited 'promising early signs of progress' on a new deal to release hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza amid talks conducted by the United States, Egypt and Qatar to secure a pause in the war 2/6
The Israeli army said it had stepped up operations in Khan Younis, a city just north of Rafah. It made no mention of attacks on Rafah itself in its daily summary of events in Gaza and did not immediately respond to a request for comment 3/6
View of Buckingham Palace following King Charles' cancer diagnosis reut.rs/486lbGw
King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and will postpone public engagements to undergo treatment, Buckingham Palace said, but added he remained ‘wholly positive’ about the scare less than 18 months into his reign
Israeli shelling killed 14 Palestinians in Khan Younis in a southern coastal area of the Gaza Strip packed with people who had fled attacks in other parts of the enclave, Gaza health ministry officials said 1/8 reut.rs/48luYtg
The dead included nine children, an official told @Reuters.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the attack although it had separately reported fighting and air strikes against Hamas militants in the Khan Younis area 2/8
Gaza residents also said Israeli planes and tanks bombarded three refugee camps in the center of the shattered enclave in heavier attacks than in previous days 3/8
After a school shooting in Tennessee, they recorded the frustrations of parents and state legislators whose cries for gun control were silenced 1/8 reut.rs/41DFBFj
In one photo, it’s almost possible to hear Representative Justin Pearson’s measured tones as he stands in prayer with one hand raised at the Capitol following a legislative session that failed to change any gun laws 2/8
In March, a former student at the Covenant School in Nashville killed three children and three staff members. Pearson and fellow Representative Justin Jones, both Black Democrats, were briefly expelled for leading a gun control protest on the House of Representatives floor 3/8
Elon Musk threatened to sue media watchdog Media Matters and those who attacked his social media platform X, following moves by several large US companies to halt advertising on the site after being promoted alongside antisemitic content 1/5 reut.rs/40JDEqD
Musk and X have been under a microscope all week for antisemitic and racist content that has proliferated on the site since he purchased it in 2022 2/5
Liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America said earlier this week that it found ads from IBM, Apple and others were placed alongside content promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party 3/5
Muslim Americans and some Democratic Party activists say they will work to mobilize millions of Muslim voters to withhold donations and votes towards President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection unless he takes immediate steps to secure a Gaza ceasefire 1/5 reut.rs/3tOrTTc
The National Muslim Democratic Council, which includes Democratic Party leaders from hotly contested states likely to decide the election, such as Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, called on Biden to use his influence with Israel to broker a ceasefire by 5 p.m. ET (2100 GMT) 2/5
In an open letter entitled '2023 Ceasefire Ultimatum,' the Muslim leaders pledged to mobilize Muslim voters to 'withhold endorsement, support, or votes for any candidate who endorses the Israeli offensive against the Palestinian people' 3/5