The Ukrainian Oleksandr Abramenko and the Russian Ilia Burov celebrated with a gesture that transcended the rising tensions between the two countries.

Hakan Sukur fled Turkey in 2015 when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan clamped down on his opponents. He is unsure if he’ll ever be able to return.

The Times spoke to two dozen experts who said decisions made now would spell the difference between a difficult future and something far worse.

Its ebb and flow has long defined life along the California coast. Now, some scientists fear climate change is causing an ethereal companion to fade away.

Darrell Woolsey does not know when he will go home to Wyoming and his wife and three children.

Local officials said that an effort to bring in relief was underway.

Woe be to Denver, where the Nuggets’ playoff failures — 37 chances without a championship so far — haunt the city like the ghost of a bearded cartoon miner.

Darrell Woolsey does not know when he will go home to Wyoming and his wife and three children.

The long-fading myth of California as Eden has been scorched but John Branch, a California-based correspondent, remains a defender of his native state.

Jason Hairston played briefly in the N.F.L., hunted with Donald Trump Jr. and owned a wildly successful hunting gear and apparel company. But he increasingly worried about a degenerative brain...

Eight passengers and a pilot were on the S-76B helicopter that crashed on a foggy hillside in the Santa Monica Mountains. This is the story of what happened.

Cornelia Vertenstein, a Holocaust survivor, is still teaching piano lessons over FaceTime from her Denver home.

Two mountain climbers died near the top of Mount Everest in 2016. Their bodies lay frozen there for a year. Then a journey began to bring them home.

California’s redwoods, sequoias and Joshua trees define the American West and nature’s resilience through the ages. Wildfires this year were their deadliest test.

At the Beijing Games, Oleksandr Abramenko got a hug from a Russian rival in a photo that went viral. This is the latest photo of him.

My son and his cubes have been inseparable for years. Like hundreds of other children, he found his tribe at the CubingUSA nationals.

At a church down the hill from a disaster, Sunday played out in small moments: a low-flying helicopter, a note slipped to the pastor, a driver looking for nine clients who never arrived.

Two mountain climbers died near the top of Mount Everest in 2016. Their bodies lay frozen there for a year. Then a journey began to bring them home.

On November 27, Brad Gobright died in Potrero Chico, Mexico. He was 31.

After a three-year hiatus, the pot-smoking, Dana White-antagonizing Everyman returns for a (co-)main event.

Jeff Parker, who played in the N.H.L. from 1986 to 1991 and died last year at age 53, will be seen as another link between hockey head hits and C.T.E.; the league has denied that such a link exists.

The son of a taxi driver, the top rival to the American Nyjah Huston knows a gold medal could burnish his sport’s renegade reputation in Japan.

A tight social circle bound by New York City basketball is hit hard by Covid-19, with three dead and others ailing.

With far less traffic thanks to coronavirus-induced quarantines, drivers are pushing down hard on their accelerators. Tickets, and records, are the result.

Cornelia Vertenstein, a Holocaust survivor, is still teaching piano lessons over FaceTime from her Denver home.

The first woman to lead a global team of adventurers, she made dozens of first descents from peaks around the world. Her body was found in Nepal on Wednesday.

The idea of sports being mainly about what happens on the courts and fields has always been a myth.

Born in San Francisco, she’ll compete in the Olympics for China, her mother’s native country. Can an 18-year-old freeskier be all things to all people in a fractured world?

Ed Cunningham, who called games for ESPN and ABC, said: “I just don’t think the game is safe for the brain. To me, it’s unacceptable.”

Decades after the unexplained deaths of two American climbers in Argentina, a camera belonging to one of them was found in the snow. The film held astonishing images, but the mystery endures.

The presence of several teenagers in skateboarding, especially among women, is helping the sport’s Olympic goal of getting more youth into the Games.

Climate change is forcing cancellations of, and changes in, sled dog races in Alaska and Canada, including the most famous of them all.

But it was profoundly damaged. Taken from a 27-year-old man who was a star of his profession before hanging himself, the brain became an object of fascination.

In this week’s newsletter, Marc Stein has scoops on Kobe and player height, plus a special guest explains why he is so glad the N.B.A. season is starting.