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Andy Kostka Published 5:58 p.m. ET July 30, 2019 | Updated 6:25 p.m. ET July 30, 2019 CLOSE Sloane Stephens made another early exit at the Citi Open. (Photo: Rob Carr, Getty Images) Midway through the second set, with the match at that point still anyone’s to win, Sloane Stephens’ racket fell out of her hand and …

The Switch’s hardware can be limiting, but every day we see more developers managing to port their games to Nintendo’s hybrid console. The latest is The Outer Worlds, from Obsidian Entertainment. Created by the writers of the original Fallout games, The Outer Worlds features the sort of open-ended RPG decision making we’ve come to expect …

One moment, Kaleigh Gilchrist was celebrating an unprecedented third straight world championship for the U.S. women’s water polo team. In the next moment, she was headed to a hospital in South Korea. Gilchrist was partying with teammate Paige Hauschild and other competitors from the world swimming championships when a balcony at a nightclub near the …

Sayyid Khalid bin Barghash Al-Busaid got to be sultan for a day. A little more than that, actually—42 hours—give or take 10 crucial minutes. It was August 1896 in Zanzibar, the island off the East African coast that is now part of Tanzania, and Khalid’s cousin, Sultan Hamad, had died suddenly. Rumors spread that he …

After an international book tour that took her around the world promoting her bestselling memoir, “Becoming,” it’s hardly a surprise that former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama tops the list of the world’s most admired woman in 2019. International market research firm YouGov published its annual study of the most admired public figures in the world earlier this …

Many owners struggle to teach their dogs to sit, fetch or even bark on command, but John Pilley, a retired psychiatrist, taught his border collie to understand more than 1,000 nouns, a feat that earned them both worldwide recognition. In 2004, Mr Pilley bought a black-and-white border collie he named Chaser. For three years, Mr Pilley trained …

Here’s a new animated “bar chart race” visualization above showing the world’s top ten billionaires in every year from 2000 to 2019 based on data from business magazine Forbes’ annual lists of the World’s Billionaires via Wikipedia. I’ve slowed this visualization down to four seconds per year to make it easier to absorb the annual changes, and have …

She may be only 17 years old, but Regan Smith possesses the self-awareness of a much more experienced athlete. The Lakeville swimmer knows she does best when she limits her focus to the things immediately in front of her, rather than gazing far into the future. That means she doesn’t want to think too much …

Tom Stuker loves going the extra mile. Give or take a few million. The world’s most frequent flier just racked up a record-setting 21 million miles flown. That’s nearly 844 times around the equator. “I’m a flying junkie,” the 65-year-old Nutley, New Jersey, resident told The Post. “If I spend more than a week in …

Maybe we’ve been a little too hard on oil money. It’s long been a cliche for arriviste tackiness. But a recent trip of mine to a former oil capital of the world—Tulsa, Oklahoma—proved a reassessment was in order. In fact, so overwhelming was the amount of preserved early 20th-century architecture that on our last day …