❄️ 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
World leaders rushed to congratulate Republican Donald Trump after he claimed victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in the US presidential election, which would cap a stunning political comeback four years after he left the White House reut.rs/3NY78vo
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy: 'I appreciate President Trump’s commitment to the “peace through strength” approach in global affairs. This is exactly the principle that can practically bring just peace in Ukraine closer' reut.rs/3UHeXcp
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: 'Congratulations on history's greatest comeback! Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America' reut.rs/4fhyxEs
The US Justice Department has opened 12 investigations into possible civil rights abuses by police departments since Democratic President Joe Biden took office, but has not secured even one binding settlement to implement reforms in any of them 1/9 reut.rs/40mKyni
After winning office following a wave of mass protests in 2020 over police killings of Black people, the Biden administration highlighted 'pattern or practice' investigations of alleged systematic civil rights violations by state or local police as critical to police reform 2/9
Attorney General Merrick Garland got off to a swift start, in April 2021 launching investigations into the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments, which became the focus of widespread protests after white police officers killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor 3/9
Cyprus has activated a mechanism to allow third-country nationals evacuating the Middle East safe passage, officials said, with the plan coming into play as regional airports close following Iran's missile attacks on Israel 1/5 reut.rs/3ZOMAfR
One country has sought Cyprus's assistance for the evacuation of civilians, and Cypriot authorities had offered facilities to nine others, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said. He did not identify the countries 2/5
‘If, as a result of yesterday's developments, airports in the region shut, the (evacuation) plan comes into play,’ Kombos said, referring to Tuesday’s missile attack by Iran on Israel 3/5
The US government's first-ever negotiated prices for prescription drugs are still more than double on average, and in some cases five times what drugmakers have agreed in four other high-income countries 1/5 reut.rs/3AQ7gto
This is the first time Medicare, which covers more than 67 million people, has disclosed drug prices, usually hidden behind a system of rebates and discounts. The lower prices will result in savings of $6 billion in 2026 when they take effect 2/5
A Reuters review of available maximum prices set by other wealthy nations — Australia, Japan, Canada and Sweden — show they have negotiated far lower prices for the same drugs 3/5
Threats. Surveillance. Doxxing. Swatting. Here's why some Sikhs in the US and Canada fear Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is trying to silence them ⬇️ 1/6reut.rs/4fFgF78
California's first Sikh American assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains says someone took photos of her home, broke into her mailbox 2/6
Bains is pushing for legislation to give law enforcement training and tools to address harassment by foreign governments 3/6
Kamala Harris is preparing for the fight of her life, if her inner circle is anything to go by 1/9 reut.rs/3LQ8kjh
The vice president has surrounded herself with a group of tested operators, many of them Black women who have been involved in Democratic politics for decades, as she gears up for a brutal three months of campaigning before the November 5 election 2/9
US Senator Laphonza Butler of California, for one, struck a bullish tone this week when asked on MSNBC about the prospect of Harris facing a barrage of sexist and racist attacks. 'Bring it,' she said. 'Because we are not new to this' 3/9