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Rory McIlroy and his wife, Erica Stoll, filed for divorce last week after seven years of marriage. Reasons for the divorce were not immediately known, but according to a report, it seems like it had been brewing for some time. Us Weekly said Stoll was “lonely” in their marriage, and the four-time major champion was “a hard person to be …

Xander Schauffele earned his first major win on Sunday at the PGA Championship, and it was a wild day for his family. As Schauffele’s six-footer lipped in for the victory — a miss would have forced a playoff with Bryson DeChambeau — he raised his arms in the air in what seemed like a relaxed sigh of relief. It was …

Louisville mayor Craig Greenberg said Tuesday that the police officers who arrested Scottie Scheffler will be investigated for whether they followed proper protocol. Scheffler was arrested just outside of Valhalla Golf Club early Friday morning en route to the course and charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, a felony, among other misdemeanor charges. “I think that’s critically important …

Simone Biles has had enough of the jokes at her husband’s expense. The gymnastics star, who will likely be making her third Olympic appearance at the Summer Games in Paris, posted a message to Instagram over the weekend snapping back at those criticizing her husband, Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens. Gymnast Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens of the Chicago Bears …

German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany’s existence. The novel beat five other finalists, chosen from 149 submitted novels, for the prize, which recognizes fiction from around the world that has been translated into …

Hundreds of hostages, mostly children and women, who were held captive for months or years by Boko Haram extremists in northeastern Nigeria have been rescued from a forest enclave and handed over to authorities, the army said. The 350 hostages had been held in the Sambisa Forest, a hideout for the extremist group which launched an insurgency in 2009, Maj. …

The United States said Monday that Russia last week launched a satellite that could be part of weaponizing space, a possible future global trend that members of the United Nations Security Council condemned even as they failed to pass a measure against it. The Security Council resolution drafted by Russia rivaled one backed by the U.S. and Japan that failed …

The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed on Tuesday they shot down an American drone over the impoverished Arab country. The U.S. military did not immediately acknowledge the claim. If confirmed, this would be the second MQ-9 Reaper drone downed by the Houthis over the past week as they press their campaign over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. …

Western allies are taking too long to make key decisions on military support for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Reuters in an exclusive interview in Kyiv on Monday. He also said he was pushing partners to get more directly involved in the war by helping to intercept Russian missiles over Ukraine and allowing Kyiv to use Western weapons against enemy …

Early in this past women’s college basketball season, the mothers of two then-LSU stars got into a social media skirmish, with one’s grades being attacked. The beef came amid Angel Reese’s absence from the team — it was speculated Reese had been suspended, but nothing was ever officially announced. Reese’s mother, Angel Webb Reese, criticized her daughter’s teammate at the …