Olga Simonova, a 34-year-old military servicewoman who fought for Ukraine with the 24th Mechanized Brigade, died Tuesday in the southern Kherson region, local news outlet TSN reported. Nicknamed “Simba,” Simonova, who is from the Chelyabinsk region, left Russia and bought a one-way ticket to Ukraine, outraged by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s move to annex Crimea in 2014. Simonova relocated to Kyiv. Shortly afterward, she began working as a paramedic in a volunteer unit with the Ukraine Armed Forces....

She said her positive test ultimately resulted from a pork burrito she ate from a “Mexican food truck” in Oregon just a few hours before an out-of-competition test in December. She explained the burrito proposal during an appeal, which was denied. Now, she faces a four-year suspension. Houlihan described her ordeal in an Instagram post on Monday evening. “On January 14th, 2021, I received an email from the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), informing me a drug testing sample that I provided on December 15th, 2020 has returned as an Adverse Analytical Finding for an anabolic steroid called Nandrolone and that I am therefore subject to an immediate Provisional Suspension,” Houlihan wrote....

According to Citizen Lab’s report, all event attendees, including audience members, press and athletes, will be required to download the MY2022 app. The app has a variety of uses, including voice chats, file transfers and weather updates. Guidance from the International Olympic Committee tells attendees to download the app before arriving in China, The Associated Press reported. But the IOC said Tuesday night the app is not mandatory. It also said independent testing found no security issues with the app....

Yes, the next leg of the men's Olympic hockey schedule was released, and it's aggravating. MORE: Analysis of Team USA, quarterfinal matchups Tuesday's quarterfinal play-in round (TV info has yet to be released): Slovenia vs. Austria, 3 a.m. ET Russia vs. Norway, 7:30 a.m. ET Switzerland/Latvia, noon ET Czech Republic-Slovakia, noon ET The kicker, though, is that Wednesday the U.S. and Canada will play at the same time. Given that it's going to be against different teams, this is a bad thing for hockey fans in both countries; anyone who wants to watch the games live; and media in both Russia and North America....

FINA told Soul Cap, a UK-based brand, that its swim caps could not be approved for use at competitions, including the Olympics, because it does not follow “the natural form of the head,” according to a report from BBC. Despite the public criticsm, FINA has not lifted the ban, and with less than a week to go until the start of the first swimming events, it is becoming increasingly unlikely the cap will be permitted for use in time for the beginning of the games....

Omega-3s are essential for healthy cell membranes. In addition, they give your body energy and help your heart, lungs, blood vessels, immune system, and endocrine system function. This article explains omega-3’s uses, benefits, and side effects. It also covers proper dosage and precautions. Uses of Omega-3 Fatty Acids Omega-3 fatty acids are a type of polyunsaturated fats found in fatty fish, plant-based sources, and certain supplements. These fats include:...

So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps. Jonathan Swift The project, which took three and a half years and $600,000, began with black-and-white negatives of satellite images dating back to 1987. In dogeared envelopes at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration library in Maryland, Van Sant eventually found a virtually cloudless picture of every four-square-kilometer parcel of land and sea. He then took the digital tapes of each photo and, working with NASA systems engineer Lloyd Van Warren, fed them into a $200,000 graphics computer....

In the largely Black district I represent as a member of the New York state senate, both have historically been in short supply. Our community is over-policed and under-protected. Every day, I speak with families who have lost children to gun violence, and with incarcerated people pleading to correct injustices in the legal system. I hear from seniors who demand action to stem the tide of shootings, and from young people who explain why they feel forced to carry a weapon....

A Priest Confesses As American Roman Catholics observe Holy Week, the church is facing its most serious crisis in decades, the burgeoning charges of sexual abuse by priests, a story NEWSWEEK first put on the cover in early March. This week David France follows up with Neil Conway’s confession about abusing eight teenage boys. It was “awful and hard to hear,” France says; still, he believes Conway’s story needs to be told: “Rightly or not, too often the church has seemed more interested in covering up the problem than fixing it....

What’s the most common cocktail mistake? Mixing a too-sour drink. People are unaccustomed to how potent fresh juices are. What’s a good “beginner’s” cocktail? Definitely the millennium. But I don’t say what’s in it before they taste it. Even if they don’t like cognac, they’ll like this drink. Can the cosmopolitan be eclipsed? It’s a modern classic. Trendy bars will invent new drinks, but the cosmo will always be here....

Twilight Zone Economics: Sounds like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is spending too much time on the bourbon trail or something. As you may know, McConnell recently caused a big rumpus when he said bailing out states and municipalities—mostly blue, surprise!—was a bad idea. Yup, just go bankrupt, fire first-responders, nurses and teachers and then get on with the pandemic. But if you’re a fan of Mitch-nomics, consider this: the top five states in terms of coronavirus cases—New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, California and Pennsylvania—accounted for more than 32 percent of the country’s GDP, according to 2019 year-end stats from the Bureau of Economic Analysis....

The 2012 DACA allows young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to remain in the country, protecting them from deportation. There are some 800,000 DACA recipients—so-called “Dreamers”—living in the U.S., who qualified by being younger than 31 as of 15 June 2012. All DACA recipients are vetted for any criminal history or threat to national security. All must be students or have completed school or military service, and their status must be renewed every two years....

The lawsuit filed this week in the Superior Court of California in San Diego accused television provider DirecTV and its parent company AT&T of breach of contract, business expectancy interference and violation of the state’s unfair competition law. At issue, is DirectTV’s unexplained decision in January to drop One America News Network, which has trafficked in conspiracy theories, from its offering of over 330 channels. “This is an action to redress the unchecked influence and power that Defendants have wielded in an attempt to unlawfully destroy an independent, family-run business and impede the right of American television viewers to watch the news media channels and programs of their choice,” read the lawsuit, which also targets AT&T Board Chairman William Kennard....

Since 1958, “The Crucible” has been on a stage almost continuously in some part of the world, and it should have been a natural for the movies. “The story is really about sex,” says Bob Miller, paraphrasing the pitch that got him a dozen we’ll-call-yous before Hytner, the British theater directorwho made the well-received 1994 film “The Madness of King George,” took the project on. “It’s about relationships, it’s about betrayal, it’s about forgiveness....

In “Is There a Distinctive Conservative Jurisprudence?” (University of Colorado Law Review, Fall 2002) he refutes the charge that there is no principled distinction between the “activism” of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Rehnquist and that of the New Deal and Earl Warren courts. The Rehnquist Court has indeed invalidated many laws. However, Wilkinson says the earlier courts would “constitutionalize freely,” meaning “extend constitutional rights to a point that impaired the democratic process....

You probably would, too. The Iraqi-born artist was speaking to a NEWSWEEK reporter 19 days into a grueling monthlong project that sounds, at first blush, suspiciously gimmicky: until June 4, Bilal is living his entire life inside one room at Chicago’s Flatfile Gallery, which anyone with a Web connection can log on to watch. Oh, and to shoot him. With “Domestic Tension” Bilal has turned his makeshift living quarters into a 24-hour-a-day war zone....

Never mind that after subtracting the stale office chitchat, spam, flame wars, dumb jokes forwarded by friends who should have known better and other e-mail detritus, there were perhaps seven messages actually worth reading. I was doomed to spend half my workday just deleting junk. E-mail sucks. But wait–what about those seven? A close friend in Taipei I haven’t seen in five years tells me he’s planning to start a family....

Those that are still likely to protest than any other group include younger people and Democrats. Among Americans aged 18 to 29, more than 30 percent are willing to attend a protest. Nearly a quarter of Democrats would be willing to do the same. These two demographic groups have been the most predominant in the mass protests that have swept across the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s death....

While accepting his fourth Super Bowl MVP trophy Monday, the Patriots quarterback had that familiar, constant smile on his face. He sported the requisite pullover and jeans that made him look like he walked off the page of a Ralph Lauren ad. And he’s always in fashion on the field, too. During Sunday’s game, it was impossible to tell whether his team was down 28-3 or about to walk off as Super Bowl 51 champions in a 34-28 win....