USA Snowboard's youngest Paralympian just won gold. How she celebrated

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — The moment Kate Delson crossed the finish line, she looked for her time. Subconsciously, she reached for her heart as a huge smile came across her face — she had done it.

Before she knew it, she was being mobbed by her USA Snowboard teammates.

The youngest member of the U.S. Para Snowboard Team had won Paralympic gold in the banked slalom.

"It feels like winning," Delson said, smiling as she grabbed her teammate Brenna Huckaby. "With my best friend in beautiful weather, in a beautiful place."

Delson's paralympic debut caught the attention of the snowboard world when the 20-year-old led the 13-team field after a first-run time of 1:03.75, a number that held for almost the entire race. Snowboarders get two runs, with the top time counted toward the standings.

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With three racers to go, Delson's gold medal was in jeopardy. Lisa Bunschoten of the Netherlands delivered a clutch run of 1:03.53 to jump into first place. Cecile Hernandez of France couldn't top it; Huckaby improved her time to move into a medal position — but still fell short.

Described as fearless by fellow American teammates, Delson fired out of the gate to an immediate lead on Bunschoten. She raced as confidently as she did in her first run and did what she had to do. She delivered a 1:02.99.

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Victory by 0.54 seconds for the United States and a second medal for Delson who had already etched her name into Paralympic history with a silver medal in the snowboard cross earlier in the week.

The Cortina Para Snowboard Park hosted a party-like atmosphere and even the athletes joined in on the fun. At one point, there was a dance party in between runs from athletes of all nations waiting on their turn in the biggest event of their lives.

Delson shared the podium with USA teammate and three-time Paralympian Huckaby, someone she said she deeply admires.

"Brennan's riding, I've said it before, and I'll say it again, it's on point. That's what she has to do for her to be up there with us girls," Delson said. "And it shows me that it's possible to put down such beautiful riding for me, no matter what; it inspires my riding."

Huckaby returned the praise to her younger teammate.

"This girl came out of nowhere and has just been crushing us, and it's awesome. I always say, we're waiting for the next generation," Huckaby said. "They're gonna come, and she's here, and not only is she here, she's a gold medalist Paralympian."

Alex Carpenter is a reporter for the Paralympics Project, a partnership between USA Today Network and the College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:USA's Kate Delson wins Paralympic gold, her second medal of 2026 Games

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WNBA, players union meet for 5th straight day trying to get CBA deal to avoid any season disruptions

NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA and the players union will meet for the fifth straight day Saturday having a sense of urgency to get a deal done by Monday to avoid disruptions to the upcoming season.

Both sides said Friday night that movement is being made toward a new CBA that would be transformational. They have spent approximately 50 hours discussing a new CBA since first getting together in person on Tuesday — the day the league had originally said there would need to be at least a handshake agreement for the season to start on time.

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said Friday night that they need to get a deal done by Monday to avoid disruptions to the upcoming season.

"I've never been a betting woman in my life and I'm not going to start now, but we have to get a deal by Monday," Engelbert told reporters. "I should say we have to get it done without disrupting some part of the fact that we've got to run this two-team expansion (draft). We have to get expansion going. We have to get free agency going. We got to get the college draft, which is now a month from today."

The league's first two preseason games are on April 25 with Caitlin Clark and Indiana visiting New York and Seattle playing Golden State.

"We have a fairly short preseason," Engelbert said. "We have preseason games scheduled on April 25. That's what I first worry about. Those are some great games."

Before the preseason games even happen, there's a lot to do with an expansion draft for Portland and Toronto as well as free agency for 80% of the league. The college draft also needs to take place.

The past two days have been spent dealing with some of the more ancillary issues and not focusing on revenue sharing — which is the area where the two sides have the biggest differences.

"I think we must have reached agreement on some things," union executive director Terri Carmichael Jackson said on other CBA items without offering specifics.

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Revenue sharing will be the biggest hurdle to get over. While league proposals have always been using net revenue — revenue after expenses — and union ones have talked about gross revenue — revenue before expenses —Jackson feels they have been on similar pages.

"The continued conversations have helped us kind of chip away at what the concerns are for both sides and how we meet them, how we address them," Jackson said on the current divide regarding the salary model.

The union started asking for 40% of gross revenue and had come down to 26% before the marathon in-person bargaining sessions. The league had been offering more than 70% net revenue for the players.

The two sides have exchanged 15 or so proposals over the first four days they've met in conversations that have lasted into the wee hours of the morning.

"It is meaningful to sit across the table and listen to their concerns, them to listen to our concerns or listen to why we think something that we're bargaining over is where we want to be," Engelbert said. "Some cases, they agree. Some cases, they don't. We listen to the players when they talk about things, and they listen to us. So, you know, progress."

Jackson and Engelbert both were involved in the previous CBA deal that was ratified in 2020. While the stakes are higher this time, the process is similar.

"Negotiations last time, that's how we got it done. We just keep grinding and keep doing the work around the clock," Jackson said.

She then later added that "we have been there committed round the clock and speaking very passionately and factually. As long as movement keeps us going in a forward direction, then I think we're good."

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Forgotten musicians from the ’80s: What are they doing now?

Not every artist who ruled the '80s charts went from MTV to arena residency. Some reinvented themselves. Some never stopped working, just without spotlights. Here are nine decades made famous, and what became of them.

Thomas Dolby

"She Blinded Me with Science" made Thomas Dolby an MTV staple in 1982. He left the stage for Silicon Valley, founded a startup, and co-created code embedded in over two billion mobile devices. He then spent a decade as music director for every TED Conference before heading the Peabody Conservatory's Music for New Media program at Johns Hopkins.

Toni Basil

When "Mickey" hit No. 1 in December 1982, Toni Basil was already 38 with two decades in show business behind her. She returned to choreography, with credits including My Best Friend's Wedding, both Legally Blonde films, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In 2022, a federal court confirmed she held the sole copyright on "Mickey."

Toto

Toto's IVwon six Grammys in 1983, including Album of the Year, and the band played on Michael Jackson's Thriller. The hits stopped, though they kept touring. "Africa" later became a defining internet meme, reaching listeners born long after it first charted.

Wall of Voodoo

"Mexican Radio" became an early MTV fixture in 1982. Frontman Stan Ridgway left in 1983 for asolo career spanning a dozen albums. The band continued under a new lineup but never recaptured the moment. Guitarist Marc Moreland died in 2002. The song remains the band's only Billboard Hot 100 entry.

The Plimsouls

"A Million Miles Away" appeared in the 1983 film Valley Girl and earned modest chart success, but the Plimsoulsbroke up in 1984. Frontman Peter Case reinvented himself as a folk artist, earning a Grammy nomination in 2007. The song outlived the band, landing on the Speed soundtrack in 1994 and covered by the Goo Goo Dolls.

Lipps Inc.

"Funkytown" reached No. 1 in the United States and dozens of countries in 1980. Lipps Inc.officially disbandedtwo years later. Singer Cynthia Johnson went on to win three Grammy Awards with the gospel group Sounds of Blackness.

Soft Cell

Soft Cell's 1981 cover of "Tainted Love" became one of the decade's most recognizable records. Marc Almond and Dave Ballkept making musicfor forty years, finishing their sixth album just days before Ball died in October 2025. The album, Danceteria, is due in 2026.

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Fine Young Cannibals

Fine Young Cannibals hit No. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic in 1989, then dissolved in 1992. Singer Roland Gift marked40 years of the bandin 2025 with a compilation and a sold-out London show.

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"Your Love" peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986 and has since beencovered or sampled over 1,000 times. Guitarist John Spinks died in 2014. Singer Tony Lewis released a solo album in 2018 and died in October 2020 at 62. Both founding members are gone.

Wrap up

The '80s produced more careers than the decade could contain. Many of these artists kept working without fanfare. Some built entirely new lives. Others held on long enough for the world to find them again.

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Explosion rocks Amsterdam Jewish school in what mayor says is ‘targeted attack’ against Jewish community

An explosion struck overnight at a Jewish school in Amsterdam in what the city's mayor called a "targeted attack against the Jewish community."

The blast hit the outer wall of the school, located in Buitenveldert, considered the city's modern Jewish quarter and home to synagogues, religious schools and Jewish restaurants.

Police have obtained images of the person who allegedly detonated the bomb, the City of Amsterdam told CNN in a statement.

"This is a cowardly act of aggression towards the Jewish community," Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said.

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten said "there must be no place for antisemitism" in the Netherlands. "I understand the anger and fear and will quickly engage in talks with the Jewish community. They must always feel safe in our country," he posted on X.

Security in Amsterdam had been heightened following antisemitic incidents in Rotterdam and Liège in neighboring Belgium earlier the same week, the statement said.

The incident appears to be part of a recent wave of antisemitic violence in Europe amid the ongoing US-Israeli conflict with Iran.

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On Friday, an explosion at the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands' second largest city, sparked a fire at the entrance of a synagogue.

Four teenage boys have been arrested following the overnight arson attack, Rotterdam police said in a statement.

Police said that that blaze was caused by an explosive device that detonated at the synagogue. The fire broke out for a short time before burning out by itself, police said, adding that no one was injured.

The four suspects, aged 17, 18 and 19, were arrested in the vicinity of another synagogue after a vehicle that was driving erratically drew the attention of authorities.

In Belgium, a synagogue in the city of Liège was rocked by an explosion on Monday in what the city's mayor described as an antisemitic attack, according to local media reports.

In Michigan in the US, a synagogue was targeted in a car-ramming attack on Thursday. Though the motive in that incident is still unknown, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said that there's a clear "nexus" between the Iran war and the attack, adding it's no coincidence the suspect targeted a synagogue named Temple Israel.

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Former Brazil President Bolsonaro's kidney function worsens but pneumonia stabilized, hospital says

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian PresidentJair Bolsonaro's kidney function worsened at the intensive care unit to which he was transferred hours earlier, a hospital in the capital, Brasilia, said Saturday. The 70-year-old leader also has pneumonia and doctors say his medical situation is serious, but stable.

Bolsonaro was sent to DF Star Hospital on Friday from the prison where he is serving a 27-year sentence for leading a coup attempt in 2023. The hospital also said in a statement that he has had an increase in inflammatory markers since treatment began.

The former president, who governed between 2019-22, was admitted to the hospital after experiencing high fever, low oxygen, sweating and chills. Exams confirmed bronchopneumonia, a type of pneumonia, likely caused by aspiration.

The embattled ex-leader wastransferred from the local federal police headquarters to a larger cellin January, but his relatives have repeatedly asked Brazil's Supreme Court to allow him to carry out his sentence under house arrest. They claim he has received insufficient medical attention.

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Bolsonaro has been hospitalized multiple times since being stabbed at a campaign event before the 2018 presidential election. One of his sons, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, is expected to run for president later this year against incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

"Unfortunately we have to learn how to live with this. It is not the first, the second or the third time my father is hospitalized because of the problems coming from the stabbing," Flávio Bolsonaro told journalists in Brasilia. "He is stable, he did not improve, but he is stable."

Jair Bolsonaro was also convicted on charges that include leading an armed criminal organization and attempting the violent abolition of the democratic rule of law. He has denied any wrongdoing.

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Warriors' tailspin continues as injuries knock out 4 more players during loss to T'Wolves: 'We're going through it'

Injuries continue to ravage the Golden State Warriors after the team lost four more players Friday night during their127-117 lossto the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Lower back soreness knocked out Draymond Green 30 minutes before tipoff; Quinten Post suffered a sprained left ankle; and Al Horford (right calf tightness) and Seth Curry (left adductor soreness) exited the game at separate points.

On top of that, the Warriors lost their fourth straight game and ninth of their past 12 games. At 32-34, theysit ninth in the Western Conferenceand have not won consecutive games since a four-game winning streak in mid-January.

"We're going through it for sure," said Warriors coach Steve Kerr,via NBC Bay Area. "But you saw how hard the guys played and stayed in it and got the fans into it. We can't ask anything more of our players right now what they're giving effort-wise and playing together. But yeah, we're about as beaten up as any team."

The injury situation was already worrisome for the Warriors, who lostJimmy Butler to a torn ACLin January and havenot had Stephen Curry for the past 16 gamesdue to a right knee injury.

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(Curry, along with Butler, will notreach the league's 65-game thresholdfor year-end awards this season.)

The road to turning around the final quarter of the season doesn't get easier. TheWarriors begin a six-game road trip on Sunday, which features games against the New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, Atlanta Hawks and Detroit Pistons.

While there was no update on the statuses of Green, Post and Seth Curry after the game, Kerr said Horford suffered a calf "strain" and will likely miss time.

"With a calf, we're not going to rush him back," Kerr said.

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Iranians grapple with whether to flee the country because of the war

KAPIKOY BORDER CROSSING, Turkey (AP) — After bombs exploded near her home in the eastern Iranian city of Golestan, hairdresser Merve Pourkaz decided to leave.

Turkey Iran War

Pourkaz, 32, said she traveled nearly 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) to an alpine border crossing in the hopes of reaching the safety of the nearby Turkish city of Van.

"If they let me, I will stay in Van until the war ends," she told The Associated Press recently while waiting at the crossing. "If the war doesn't end, maybe I'll go back and die."

Pourkaz is one of the 3.2 million people in Iran who the U.N. refugee agency estimates have been displaced since the U.S.-Israel war with Iran started. While some are seeking shelter in safer parts of Iran or one of its neighboring countries, others are returning from abroad, heading toward the fighting to protect their families and homes.

So far, relatively few people have chosen to leave: The U.N. estimates that only about 1,300 Iranians have fled via Turkey each day since the war started, and on some days, more people return to Iran than depart. But Iran's neighbors and Europe are growing increasingly concerned about a possible migration crisis should the war drag on and are making contingency plans.

As Pourkaz was entering Turkey, Leila Rabetnezhadfard was headed the other way.

Rabetnezhadfard, 45, was in Istanbul preparing to marry a German university professor when the fighting started. She postponed the ceremony and left for home in Shiraz, in southern Iran.

"How can I feel safe in Istanbul when my family is living in Iran during the war?" said Rabetnezhadfard, explaining that bringing her family to Istanbul wasn't an option because her apartment is small, her brother needs medical care, and life there is expensive.

"I will not leave Iran until the war ends," she said.

Fleeing the fighting

The U.N. has warned that continued fighting will likely push more Iranians to flee their homes.

As in the12-day conflictlast year, many Iranians are now sheltering in place, without money to flee or perhaps because ofU.S. President Donald Trump's Feb. 28 warning.

"Stay sheltered. Don't leave your home. It's very dangerous outside. Bombs will be dropping everywhere," he said.

Although large numbers of Iranians haven't fled the country yet, people have beenleaving major citiesfor the relative safety of the countryside bordering the Caspian Sea north of the capital, Tehran, according to the International Organization for Migration.

"Movement out of Iran appears limited mainly because people are prioritizing staying with their families, as well as the safety of their families and property, and due to security conditions and logistical constraints," said Salvador Gutierrez, chief of the IOM's mission in Iran.

If Iran's critical infrastructure is destroyed, that could lead to waves of people trying to cross into one of Iran's neighbors: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey and Iraq.

"If Tehran, a city of 10 million people, doesn't have water, they're going to go somewhere," said Alex Vatanka, a fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington.

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Iran is already grappling with one of the world's largest refugee populations: roughly 2.5 million forcibly displaced people mostly from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Neighbors brace for impact

If the crisis deepens, aid groups say the most likely destinations for refugees are Iran's borders with Iraq and Turkey, which stretch roughly 2,200 kilometers (1,367 miles) through rough alpine terrain that is home to many Kurdish communities and are difficult to police.

Turkey had a so-called open-door policy that allowed millions of Syrian refugees to enter the country during their country'slong civil war. But it has abandoned that approach for various reasons.

Instead, it has prepared plans to shelter Iranian refugees in "buffer zones" along the border, or in tent cities or temporary housing inside Turkey, the country's Hurriyet newspaper quoted Turkish Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci as saying.

Iranians who have fled the war will likely not seek refugee status in Turkey because asylum claims might take years to process, if at all, said Sara Karakoyun, an aid worker at the independent Human Resource Development Foundation based near the border.

"They don't want to wait in limbo for years for a refugee status they might not get," she said.

Turkey's defense ministry said in January that Turkey had hardened its border with Iran by adding 380 kilometers of concrete walls, 203 optical towers and 43 observation posts.

Turkey will likely send troops to secure its border and tightly control the flow of people into the country while seeking European Union funds to help deal with refugees, said Riccardo Gasco, an analyst at the IstanPol Institute.

Europe taps network to prepare for the worst

The relationship between the EU and Turkey was redefined by the Syrian refugee crisis a decade ago. Nearly two-thirds of the 4.5 million Syrians fleeing the civil war ended up in Turkey. Many then made their way to Europe via small boats.

In 2016,Brussels and Ankara forged a migration dealwhere the EU offered Turkey incentives and up to 6 billion euros ($7.1 billion) in aid for Syrian refugees on its territory to persuade Ankara to stop tens of thousands of migrants from setting out for Greece.

Aid groups said that deal created open-air prisons with squalid conditions. But for the EU leadership, the deal saved people, kept many migrants from reaching EU territory, and bettered the lives of refugees in Turkey.

Renewal of that deal is up this year, butTurkish citizens have soured on Syrian refugeesand anti-immigrant right-wing partieshave surged in popularity in parts of Europe.

And another refugee crisis is already underway even closer to Europe, with fighting in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollahdisplacing more than 800,000 peopleso far.

"We've got a situation (in the Middle East) that could have grave humanitarian consequences right at a time where humanitarian funding has been completely slashed," said Ninette Kelley, chair of the World Refugee & Migration Council, pointing to the Trump administration'sgutting of USAID. "Is the world ready for another humanitarian disaster?"

McNeil reported from Brussels. Associated Press writers Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, Fay Abuelgasim in Cairo, and Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad contributed to this report.

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