For Olympics-bound lugers, snow-free summer months don't mean a break from training. WSJ visited the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y., where the U.S. team is prepping for Sochi. U.S. National Champion Julia Clukey explains how the luge team trains indoors for their starts.
President Obama has greatly scaled back his second-term ambitions, says WSJ's Peter Nicholas. His remarks Thursday laid out immigration, the budget and the farm bill as key issues -- but gone were ambitious plans for gun control, the minimum wage and climate change.
Authorities are searching for two men convicted on murder charges who were mistakenly released from a Florida prison with forged documents. The Orange County Sheriff's Office says Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker were released separately from a prison in the Panhandle in late September and early October.
Guitar virtuoso Jeff Beck talks to WSJ's John Jurgensen about bonding with Jimi Hendrix and what Hendrix thought of Beck's guitar playing.
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Internationally acclaimed South Korean director Kim Ki-duk had to make cuts to his latest film, "Moebius"—which portrays incest, castration and sadomasochistic acts—so it could be shown in his own country. Mr. Kim speaks about censorship and the central themes of his films.
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday put in motion the final steps of a bipartisan solution to the weeks-long budget drama, voting 81-18 to raise the nation's borrowing limit and reopen the government. Watch video of the reading of the voting results.
Though the Swedish company is better known for its inexpensive furniture, its IKEA food division is also a behemoth, rivaling Panera Bread and Arby's. Johannes Ledel explains how the unit brings in nearly $2 billion in annual revenue.
Here there be monsters indeed! A marine biologist recently discovered the 18-foot carcass of an oarfish, an elusive creature often considered the progenitor of sea serpent myths.
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