August 14, 2016

Inspired by a phrase shouted by the team coxswain — “This is the U.S. women’s eight!” — the Americans won their third straight Olympic gold medal and 11th consecutive major title.

Many turn to panning for black-market gold in the watery pits of mines, where mosquitoes infect them. Once they return home to recover, the disease spreads.

A strategy of courting Republicans and focusing closely on Mr. Trump, they say, may impede Mrs. Clinton’s ability to claim a policy mandate if elected.

Carli Lloyd, a setter on the U.S. volleyball team, has always relied on the support of her uncle, who starred as one of the spandex-clad titans on “American Gladiators.”

Mr. Rylance’s portrayal in “Twelfth Night” is, hands down, our chief theater critic’s favorite Shakespeare performance. The actor tells us how he developed the role.