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OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

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At this point, is anyone surprised? During her tenth slalom race of the World Cup season at the finals in Lillehammer, Norway, Mikaela Shiffrin blazed into first place, locking down her 110th career ...

Mikaela Shiffrin is atop the podium again. The Olympic slalom champion won the first World Cup race in the discipline since the Milano Cortina Games on Sunday, March 15. Even with a small bobble near ...

Volusia County Schools employees have experienced repeated payroll errors, including incorrect overtime and retroactive pay. District officials attribute the problems to the transition to a new ERP ...

With three Olympic gold medals and eight world championships, Mikaela Shiffrin is indisputably the greatest alpine ski racer of all time. She's won more World Cup ski races than any other person -- ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin likes to invoke the adage from tennis great Billie Jean King that “pressure is a privilege.” Even if, at times, it doesn’t quite feel like it. And it ...

Editor's note: Mikaela Shiffrin won gold in slalom at the 2026 Winter Games, her third career Olympic gold medal. CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Mikaela Shiffrin will start seventh in her last chance to ...

A blizzard caused Olympic mayhem in the alpine skiing men’s slalom competition on Monday. Over half the competitors — 52 out of 96 — failed to finish their first run in the rough conditions, with ...

Norway’s Atle Lie McGrath saw his gold medal hopes slip away in the Olympic slalom and decided to send his ski poles sailing along with them. After tossing each pole over the netting, he then climbed ...