RIO DE JANEIRO — American Ibtihaj Muhammad looked like all the other fencers when she stepped on the piste, save for the nondescript black scarf covering her head. With that small gesture, Muhammad ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- American Ibtihaj Muhammad looked like any other fencer when she stepped on the piste -- save for the nondescript black scarf covering her head. With that small gesture, Muhammad made ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — American Ibtihaj Muhammad looked like all the other fencers when she stepped on the piste, save for the non-descript black scarf covering her head. With that small gesture, Muhammad ...

Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad poses for photos at the 2016 Olympic Team USA media summit Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Muhammad would be the first American to compete in the Olympics ...

There was a thought that the best women’s 400m hurdle race of the year had already been run. That the world record holder, exhausted from achieving her lifetime goal, wouldn’t be as sharp in Doha as ...

After arriving in Doha last September, Dalilah Muhammad told her coach that the world track and field championships would produce fast times. Even if she wasn’t necessarily thinking of herself. “I had ...

Dozens of Pakistani lawmakers rumbled through the streets of Islamabad on Thursday with one voice: Death to the blasphemers. Death to the blasphemers. Death to the blasphemers. The “blasphemers” in ...

Muhammad Ali, the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion, entered the combative ring of politics and culture by refusing to serve in the United States military at the height of the Vietnam War on ...