Maquita Peters

From left, U.S. silver medalist Regan Smith, Australian gold medalist Kaylee McKeown and U.S. bronze medalist Katharine Berkoff pose with their medals following the women's 100-meter backstroke swimming event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Tuesday. Berkoff's bronze was not only the 3,000th medal for Team USA, but also the 600th Olympic medal earned by a USA swimming athlete.

The United States has become the first country to win 3,000 Olympic medals

Maquita Peters

This record tally includes both Summer and Winter Games and was helped Tuesday by Team USA's historic performances in Paris in swimming events, which yielded four medals.

Sha'carri Richardson of Team USA celebrates after finishing second in the Women's 100m Final on day eight of the Paris Olympics at Stade de France on Saturday.

How is Team USA faring in the Olympics? Here's a medal count so far

Juliana Kim

The United States became the first country to surpass the 3,000-Olympic medal barrier. This record tally includes both Summer and Winter Games.

Cardboard beds at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games have made headlines.

Cardboard beds have returned to the Olympics. What do they do?

Alana Wise

Cardboard beds are one of the Olympics' latest green innovations. But not all the athletes are fans.

Shohei Ohtani says he's sad, shocked over Mizuhara's gambling and theft allegations

Bill Chappell

The Los Angeles Dodgers fired Ippei Mizuhara last week. Three months earlier, the team called Mizuhara "Shohei's best buddy."

A dead satellite crashed back to Earth. No worries, it landed in the Pacific

James Doubek

The one-in-a-billion chance it could have hit somebody on the head didn't become a reality, as the European satellite reentered the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Hawaii.

Being Black In America: 'We Have A Place In This World Too'

Maquita Peters

As protests continue around the country in response to several high-profile deaths of African Americans in recent weeks, black people say they are frustrated, fearful and fatigued.

Director George A. Romero attends the Night of the Living Dead World Premiere of Restored Print during the To Save and Project: The 14th MOMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MOMA on November 5, 2016 in New York City.

George Romero, 'Night Of The Living Dead' Director, Dies At 77

Maquita Peters

The legendary film director died in his sleep on Sunday with his family by his side, "following a brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer."

An area in Tonto National Forest in Arizona.

At Least 9 People Are Dead After Flash Flooding In Rural Arizona

Maquita Peters

A flash flood plowed through a popular rural Arizona swimming hole Saturday afternoon, killing at least nine people, local authorities say. One person is missing.

A TV crew films the damage to the USS Fitzgerald at its port in Yokosuka, Japan, on Sunday. "A number" of missing American sailors have been found dead in flooded areas of the destroyer, the U.S. Navy says.

U.S. Navy Identifies 7 Sailors Found Dead After Navy Destroyer's Collision

Colin Dwyer

Since the USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship off Japan on Saturday, seven sailors had been missing. Sunday, the Navy released the identities of the deceased sailors, ages 19 to 37.

Thousands of protesters gather in Portland, Ore., Sunday, for competing rallies following last month's fatal stabbing of two men on a light-rail train by a man police say was shouting anti-Muslim slurs.

Trump Supporters And Counter-Protesters Collide In Portland, Ore.

Maquita Peters

Thousands of demonstrators from varying groups converged in Portland, Ore. Sunday afternoon in the wake of the fatal stabbing of two Portland men who tried to stop another man's anti-Muslim tirade.