Simone Biles is no longer Rio de Janeiro’s juggernaut. A mistake on the balance beam prevented the American gymnastics star from a record-tying fourth gold at the Olympics, which were dogged Monday by rain, wind and fire. Downpours delayed the track and field program in the evening, where world champion… Read More

He allegedly planned a coup for decades — he just wasn’t very good at it. In 1986, the Turkish military expelled dozens of cadets suspected of loyalty to a young Muslim cleric named Fethullah Gulen, seen as a potential threat to the country’s strict secular rule. Officials, a magazine reported… Read More

A Belgian woman who won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics has become sick after racing on polluted Guanabara Bay, the first sailor to fall ill from the waters that were subject to great scrutiny leading to the Rio Games. Evi Van Acker reported feeling sick after Wednesday’s races,… Read More

The parents of a Colorado man reported killed fighting against the Islamic State group says their son joined Kurdish forces to “fight the evil that is ISIS.” Jordan MacTaggart, 22, was believed to be killed on Aug. 3 while fighting in a squad that included two Americans and a Swede… Read More

The military campaigns in Iraq and Syria have taken 45,000 enemy combatants off the battlefield and reduced the total number of Islamic State fighters to as few as 15,000, the top U.S. commander for the fight against ISIS said Wednesday. Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland said that both the quality and… Read More

Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the sixth Duke of Westminster — a friend of Britain’s royal family and one of the country’s wealthiest landowners — has died at 64. The Grosvenor Estate said the duke died Tuesday at a hospital in Preston, in northwest England, after suddenly becoming ill at his vast… Read More

Day 5 of the Rio Games features medal action in gymnastics, swimming, judo, fencing and more. Here are some things to watch (all times local): Swimming A day after Michael Phelps won his 20th and 21st golds , he and Ryan Lochte will be looking to get to the semifinals… Read More

Following a lengthy tug-of-war with Capitol Hill, the Pentagon has given a senator the first-ever, unclassified report detailing the suspected militant backgrounds of more than 100 detainees at or recently released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay – a report that will likely spur more debate over shutting… Read More