Oksana Masters, the most decorated U.S. Winter Paralympian of all time, told CBS News that “my cheeks are hurting from smiling” after winning three gold medals in Milan.
“I feel like I’m on top of the world,” Masters said. “I am shocked.”
Masters took home her 20th medal after placing first in the women’s sprint sitting discipline in the Para biathalon on March 7. She also earned two more medals — her 21st and 22nd — in Para cross-country skiing events. She won both races, bringing her career gold medal tally to 12. Masters has one race left at the 2026 Winter Games.
Masters’ season was marred by surgery, a bone infection and concussion, but she told CBS News that her childhood as an orphan in Ukraine gave her the resilience needed to persevere in the world of competitive sports. Masters was adopted by an American couple when she was 7 years old. She later had her legs amputated due to radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster.
Oksana Masters of Team USA celebrates during the medal ceremony for the Para cross-country skiing women’s sprint sitting at the Paralympics, March 10, 2026, in Val di Fiemme, Italy.
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“I know that life isn’t guaranteed, and so I don’t take anything for granted,” Masters said. “When I reflected back … my personal journey parallels so similarly to my athletic journey. I didn’t make my first Paralympic Games in 2008 when I wanted to. I know what it’s like to not make it, to make it, to win gold or walk away from a Paralympic Games with no medals. I think that stems from not ever giving up, when I was a little girl in Ukraine, to now.”
This is Masters’ eighth Paralympics. She has competed in both summer and winter events since 2012 but said it’s impossible to pick which Games she likes better. Summer has “better tan lines and rowing,” but cross-country skiing in the Winter Paralympics is always unique, Masters sais.
“You’ll never have the same course twice or the same lap twice,” she told CBS News. “When I ski at the start of the race, one lap, the second lap is different. So I’m constantly adjusting and finding those fast lines, the fast snow. And I’m not settling. I’m constantly adjusting and pushing myself outside of my comfort zones and that’s something that’s so unique to winter sports in general. I do love that part of it.”
Masters is an icon among Paralympic athletes and a role model to some younger teammates. She said she feels lucky to “show both sides of an athlete and the journey,” and show that there “isn’t a perfect timeline” to success.
Oksana Masters of Team USA celebrates after winning gold in the Para cross-country skiing sprint sitting final at the Paralympics, March 10, 2026, in Val di Fiemme, Italy.
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“I feel like it’s just an absolute honor to be able to show parts of my journey, the ups and downs, because I think it’s very important to see that gold medalists or (first-timers) that it doesn’t have to be smooth sailing, and it often isn’t, and it’s okay,” Masters said. “Just don’t give up on yourself and your dream.”
Meanwhile, her own inspiration is close to home.
“My mom is my number one reason of why I’m here and why I keep pushing myself and trying to prove to myself what’s truly possible, and prove to society what’s truly possible,” Masters said.
The U.S. is currently second in the medal count at the Paralympic Games, with 12 medals, behind China, with 14 total medals.
Police and federal agents say they’re responding to shooting at Old Dominion University in Virginia.An alert sent to ODU students and faculty said there was an “active threat.””O.D.U. Urgent Alert: Active threat reported at Constant Hall. Follow Run-Hide-Fight protocols. Emergency personnel responding. Avoid area,” the alert said.Constant Hall serves as the hub for the college of business at ODU.Norfolk police are currently on scene.Old Dominion University is a public research university with around 23,000 students.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
NORFOLK, Va. —
Police and federal agents say they’re responding to shooting at Old Dominion University in Virginia.
An alert sent to ODU students and faculty said there was an “active threat.”
“O.D.U. Urgent Alert: Active threat reported at Constant Hall. Follow Run-Hide-Fight protocols. Emergency personnel responding. Avoid area,” the alert said.
Constant Hall serves as the hub for the college of business at ODU.
Norfolk police are currently on scene.
Old Dominion University is a public research university with around 23,000 students.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Kacey Musgraves isn’t afraid to talk about it. The lyrics to her new song “Dry Spell” describe a woman in need of loving, and she’s not talking about the forever kind.
To be blunt, Musgraves sings about going 335 days without sex, but her lyrics are so much more creative. Josh Osborne, Luke Laird and Shane McAnally helped her pen “Dry Spell,” the first sampling of a new album expected in 2026.
Musgraves New Middle of Nowhere album will be her sixth non-holiday studio album.
The new project will feature a duet with Miranda Lambert called “Horses and Divorces.”
Her last album Deeper Well won a Grammy for Best Country Album.
A “Dry Spell” music video accompanies this new track and it’s equally suggestive. We just never knew there were so many sexual things at the supermarket! It all suggests a change of tone for Musgraves, one of country music’s most dynamic songwriters.
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Talking to NPR, Musgraves shared that this song was inspired by the longest period of being single that she’d ever experienced.
“I started really loving my singledom,” she says.
Signature songs from previous albums have been thoughtful (“The Architect”) or doting (“Butterflies,” “Golden Hour”) but this one strikes a tone her most loyal fans will recognize.
“I was craving humor again,” she shares. That was a big part of earlier albums, and then I maybe purposefully steered away from that, just so I didn’t paint myself into some sort of bumper sticker lane. And then life happens.”
Writer Cole Schafer was Musgraves most recent boyfriend, but they broke up some time ago. Before that she was married to Ruston Kelly until 2020. That song helped inspire “Horses and Divorces,” an upcoming duet with Lambert.
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Kacey Musgraves, “Dry Spell” Lyrics:
It’s been a real long / Three-hundred and thirty-five days / And the last time / It wasn’t good anyway / I’m so lonely, lonely with a capital H, if you know what I mean / I’ve been sitting on the washing machine.
Chorus: Ain’t nobody’s tool up in my shed / Ain’t nobody’s boots under my bed / Ain’t nobody’s truck up in my drive / For a late night call, for a real good time / Ain’t no new notches on my belt / And I’m tired of keepin’ my hands to myself / 911, it’s officially a cry for help / Y’all, I’m going through a dry spell, yep.
So, tell me, what’s a self-respecting girl to do / I got the bacon, and no one to bring it home to / It’s a drought out here, waiting on a storm / I think it’s time for me to take the bull by the horns.
Repeat Chorus
Ain’t nobody’s tool up in my shed / Ain’t nobody’s boots under my bed / Ain’t nobody’s truck up in my drive / For a late night call, for a real good time / Ain’t nobody to roll with in the hay / And nobody but the chickens are getting laid / 911, it’s officially a cry for help / Y’all, I’m going through a dry spell, yep.
11 Naughty Country Songs That Will Make You Blush
Country music is often known for wholesome themes of God, faith and family, but that doesn’t mean the genre doesn’t have a sexier side. These 11 country songs are so naughty that it’s almost hard to believe they made it on the radio.
The 13 songs on this list of country songs about sex range from cheeky, to dirty to flat-out pornographic. With apologies to those who fell in love with these hits from George Strait,Miranda Lambert and more, here’s what they were really singing about.
Dollar General’s outlook for the year calls for sales growth to slow, as recent winter storms hurt the current quarter and continued uncertainty clouds consumer behavior.
For two straight seasons, the Dallas Stars and Edmonton Oilers have met in the Western Conference finals, with the Oilers winning both matchups.
Are these teams headed on yet another collision course at the penultimate stage of the postseason? And will the third time be the charm for the Stars?
Before we get too far down the road, the Stars are hosting the Oilers for a Thursday night clash (8 p.m. ET, ESPN+/Hulu) — one of 14 games on the schedule! (Get multiple devices with multiview ready to roll, apparently!)
So far, the Stars have been the dominant team in this matchup, winning both games in 2025-26: a 4-3 shootout win in Dallas on Nov. 4 and an 8-3 demolition in Edmonton on Nov. 25.
The teams are obviously different now, and this will be quite the test for both as the postseason approaches.
Dallas is the No. 2 team in the Central Division, matched up as of now with the Minnesota Wild in the first round. If Dallas wins that series, it will take on the winner of the Colorado Avalanche vs. (likely) the second wild card.
Edmonton and the Vegas Golden Knights are currently matched up in the Pacific Division bracket, and a win in that series gets the Oilers a showdown against the winner of the Anaheim Ducks vs. the other wild card team.
If all that comes up victoriously for both clubs, it’s Stars-Oilers III for the title of best in the West. As of now, Stathletes projects the Avalanche as having the highest chances of reaching the Western Conference finals (43.0%), trailed by the Oilers (37.6%), Wild (31.3%), Golden Knights (23.0%), Utah Mammoth (22.9%), then the Stars (15.9%).
Every team has fewer than 20 games left before the season concludes April 16, and we’ll help you keep track of it all here on the NHL playoff watch every day. As we traverse the final stretch, we’ll provide details on all the playoff races — along with the teams jockeying for position in the 2026 NHL draft lottery.
Points: 46 Regulation wins: 13 Playoff position: N/A Games left: 18 Points pace: 58.9 Next game: vs. NSH (Thursday) Playoff chances: ~0% Tragic number: 15
Race for the No. 1 pick
The NHL uses a draft lottery to determine the order of the first round, so the team that finishes in last place is not guaranteed the No. 1 selection. As of 2021, a team can move up a maximum of 10 spots if it wins the lottery, so only 11 teams are eligible for the draw for the No. 1 pick. Full details on the process can be found here. Atop draft boards for this summer is Gavin McKenna, a forward for Penn State.
Points: 46 Regulation wins: 13
Points: 57 Regulation wins: 21
Points: 59 Regulation wins: 18
Points: 60 Regulation wins: 17
Points: 60 Regulation wins: 23
Points: 62 Regulation wins: 21
Points: 65 Regulation wins: 19
Points: 66 Regulation wins: 22
Points: 66 Regulation wins: 21
Points: 66 Regulation wins: 18
Points: 67 Regulation wins: 26
Points: 67 Regulation wins: 16
Points: 71 Regulation wins: 27
Points: 71 Regulation wins: 20
Points: 73 Regulation wins: 26
Points: 76 Regulation wins: 23
*Note: The Maple Leafs’ pick belongs to the Bruins, unless it lands in the top five.
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s government will declassify a national security report that the populist prime minister says will prove his main political challenger received illegal financing from Ukraine, a minister said Thursday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán faces the biggest political challenge of his career in next month’s elections, where he is trailing in most polls behind his center-right opponent, Péter Magyar and his Tisza party.
As the April 12 vote approaches, Orbán — who maintains cordial relations with the Kremlin — has relied increasingly on an aggressive anti-Ukraine campaign that alleges Kyiv, the European Union and Tisza are part of a conspiracy to oust his government and install one that makes decisions more favorable to Ukraine.
Orbán has repeatedly claimed that Ukraine is financing Tisza, without providing evidence for his accusations. In an interview on commercial broadcaster ATV last week, the nationalist leader said “significant” sums had been provided to Tisza by Ukraine for the development of IT applications and voter mobilization efforts.
Magyar denies the allegations.
Orbán added that his claims were “not assumptions, but facts” he had seen in a national security committee report, and encouraged journalists to request the report be declassified.
“I don’t think the state would withhold this information from you,” Orbán said.
On Thursday, Orbán’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyás, told a news conference that “the declassification process is underway,” and that the report would be released ”in the foreseeable future.”
With only four weeks until the election and many voters dissatisfied with a chronically stagnant economy, crumbling social services and widespread allegations of corruption, Orbán has cast the stakes of the vote as existential for Hungary’s future.
The central message of Orbán’s pitch is that a new government would bankrupt Hungary by supporting Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, and send Hungary’s youth to their deaths on the front lines. The campaign, replete with disinformation, has relied heavily on pictures and videos generated by artificial intelligence.
Orbán’s government has also used public funds to cover the country in billboards featuring an AI-manipulated image of Ukrainian President Voldodymyr Zelenskyy flashing a sinister smile. The caption reads: “We won’t let Zelenskyy have the last laugh!”
Meanwhile Magyar, a 44-year-old lawyer and a former insider within Orbán’s Fidesz party, has warned of possible efforts by Russian intelligence services to influence the election outcome in Orbán’s favor.
The Tisza party did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Orbán’s government has strongly opposed EU financial and military aid for Ukraine, and vowed that it would veto any EU steps toward its accession into the bloc.
Hungary recently vetoed a new round of EU sanctions against Russia and blocked a major, 90-billion-euro ($104-billion) loan for Kyiv in retaliation for an interruption in Russian oil shipments across Ukraine.
Orbán has also deployed military forces to key energy infrastructure sites across Hungary, accusing Ukraine of plotting disruptions.
Last week, masked commandos with Hungary’s Counter Terrorism Center detained seven Ukrainian state bank employees and impounded two armored vehicles that were carrying 40 million U.S. dollars as well as 35 million euros and 9 kilograms (19.8 pounds) of gold.
The bank employees were deported to Ukraine after more than a day in detention, but the money and gold, worth some $82 million, stayed in Hungary.
The action outraged Ukraine, which said the shipment traveling from Austria to Ukraine across Hungary was part of regular services between state banks. Ukraine’s foreign minister accused Hungary of “state terrorism” and “taking hostages.”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – This year marks the 100th anniversary of Route 66 and Photographer Craig Kilgore spent almost a month on the road to capture it all. He covered the entire stretch of Route 66, from Chicago to Los Angeles and back. Kilgore will be sharing his experience as part of his photography exhibition “Before […]
Nine Inch Nails faced an unexpected interruption during their March 6 performance at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, AZ, when a fight broke out in the audience during their set-closing track, “Hurt”.
Band mastermind Trent Reznor immediately paused the song to address the incident, calling out the violent attendees from the stage: “Hey, we’re not here for this shit man. C’mon, hey! Hey! There’s enough bullshit happening out there, we don’t need it happening in the fuck here.”
Security quickly intervened, removing the individuals involved, while the rest of the audience booed as the altercation was cleared. Which is fair – don’t interrupt “Hurt” because you can’t get your shit together, or whatever.
This especially sucks for those fans considering Nine Inch Nails might be done touring after this current trek. During a recent show at the BOK Center in Tulsa, OK, Reznor addressed the crowd saying: “I think one of the first times we played here, I think maybe it was Cain’s Ballroom, like 80 years ago.
“I think we were opening for Peter Murphy… and we were playing ‘Head Like A Hole,’ and I could see someone in the back screaming the fuckin’ lyrics back at me, and I thought, ‘This is all I ever wanted in life, is to connect with somebody like that dude in the back [of the venue],” said Reznor to the crowd.
“Anyway, that’s what I think of when I roll into Tulsa. I don’t know if we’re gonna be touring anymore after this, but I’m proud of the show that we’re doing right now. And I’m fuckin’ grateful that you’ve chosen to spend your evening with us tonight. Thank you very much.”
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Victor Wembanyama and the upstart San Antonio Spurs have spent the 2025-26 season sending a message to the entire NBA that they are a legitimate championship threat. Their early dominance of the Oklahoma City Thunder raised eyebrows and they’ve continued to pick off the league’s best, most recently beating the Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets and Boston Celtics convincingly in the midst of a league-best 16-1 stretch.
At 48-17, the Spurs have the league’s second-best record, only trail the Thunder by 2 ½ games for the top spot in the Western Conference and hold a 7 ½-game lead over the Rockets for the No. 2 seed. DraftKings lists them at +750 to win the title. Under any circumstance, this would be a wildly impressive season, but the Spurs are doing this with a team full of players getting their first taste of winning basketball at the NBA level.
The last team to win an NBA championship with the kind of playoff inexperience the Spurs have on their roster was the 1976-77 Portland Trail Blazers, who were led by a precocious young big man with unique talents named Bill Walton. Since then, a team making its first postseason appearance together hasn’t won a championship without adding a superstar with a strong playoff résumé.
That is the kind of history this Spurs team is trying to make. And not only would winning a title be historic, even making it to the Finals (or conference finals) would be an outlier performance.
Young teams with regular-season success struggle in playoffs
Over the past 20 seasons, 11 teams led by young stars without postseason experience have won 50-plus games in the regular season after failing to reach the postseason for multiple years in a row. Only two of those teams reached the conference finals, and just one made it to the NBA Finals.
The 2020-21 Suns team is even a questionable fit for the criteria because they had a star veteran in Chris Paul with ample postseason experience (without the level of success he wanted), but the rest of that roster was largely young players getting their first taste of playoff basketball.
Still, the general rule of the NBA playoffs is that young teams, before they can become a true contender, need at least a year or two of experience to shine a light on their weaknesses and show them the difference between regular-season games and playoff series.
Young, talented teams often can find outsized regular-season success due in part to their willingness to play to their top level more often than many veteran teams. Those with experience often find another gear for playoff basketball, where young teams are more likely to operate in their top gear in the regular season, but struggle to find that extra bit needed in the postseason when everyone ramps up their level of play. On top of that, game plans get more nuanced in a seven-game series, and young players have to learn how to make the necessary adjustments as teams start to dial in on how to attack them on each end of the floor.
Can the Thunder be a blueprint?
The best example of a team that turned regular-season success into a postseason triumph is this current Oklahoma City Thunder team. The Thunder went 57-25 in 2023-24 and looked like a dominant force, only to stumble in the second round to a Mavericks team that had taken its lumps in recent playoff appearances while trying to build a contender around Luka Dončić. That experience taught the young Thunder where they needed to improve, both in terms of internal growth for their young stars and what they needed to do as a front office to add the right veterans to fill gaps. The additions of Alex Caruso and Isaiah Hartenstein were instrumental in a championship a year later.
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The Thunder represent an outlier in terms of how rapidly they went from out of the playoffs to a championship winner. They needed just one trip to the postseason to figure out the formula. Most young teams need more time and reps to fully crack the code. It took the Warriors a few early playoff exits before they launched their dynastic run, while the Celtics suffered through nearly a decade of playoff heartbreak before finally reaching the championship summit again in 2024.
The Spurs are looking to do something unprecedented in the modern NBA by leaping all the way to title contender in their first year as a playoff team built around Wembanyama.
Can the Spurs break the trend?
While the Spurs aren’t the youngest team by age — at just over 25 years old on average, they’re the 14th-youngest team in the NBA — very few of their players have played on winning teams. That includes Wembanyama, who is set to reach the playoffs for the first time in his third year. Wembanyama’s supporting cast is largely filled with inexperienced players as well — especially when it comes to playoff basketball — but they have quickly adapted and accepted their roles in a winning ecosystem.
The Spurs’ patience in developing young, quality players has paid off. Pre-Wembanyama draft picks Devin Vassell and Keldon Johnson have become key cogs in the machine, while their most recent draft additions have hit the ground running as Stephon Castle, Dylan Harper and Carter Bryant all quickly figured out how to contribute to winning basketball.
Of the Spurs’ main 10-man rotation, the only two players who have played on a team that’s won a playoff series are Harrison Barnes and Luke Kornet. Both have championship rings, but played secondary roles. De’Aaron Fox is their most notable veteran, but he’s played in only one postseason series after spending the first eight years of his career with the Sacramento Kings.
In the 2025-26 regular season, this Spurs group has come together in one of the most impressive jobs of roster-building and coaching we’ve seen all year. The Spurs hope that, over the past three seasons, they have already made the roster tweaks and adjustments needed to contend by steadily building out a rotation with complementary talent that blends beautifully on both ends of the floor.
The Spurs check all the boxes statistically for being a contender. They are fourth in offensive rating (117.6), third in defensive rating (110.3) and fourth in net rating (7.3). They rank in the top six in the league in turnover percentage (fifth), shooting efficiency (sixth) and rebounding percentage (sixth).
They have top-end talent, depth and two-way positional flexibility throughout the roster. Wembanyama in particular is as unique a force as we’ve ever seen, capable of completely taking over a game on both ends like few players in NBA history.
The only thing they don’t have is a complete understanding of what is on the horizon. Fox has had a taste of it and Barnes and Kornet can tell them what it takes to win a championship, but there is no teacher quite like experience. For Wembanyama and the rest of the young Spurs, they can’t know exactly how they will react until they’re in the fire together.
This isn’t to say they can’t win a championship, but it is important context for what they’re trying to accomplish. It’d be almost fitting if Wembanyama, the presumptive new face of the NBA and a potential all-time great, was the one to do something we haven’t seen in 50 years: lead his team to a title in his first playoff appearance.
The Spurs seemingly have the right pieces, but we’ve yet to see most of their roster put to the diamond tester that is the playoff stage. And how the Spurs handle the bright lights of the postseason will be one of the most important storylines of this NBA season.
If they’re able to buck the trend and make it to even the conference finals or Finals, they will prove to be ahead of schedule. If they win it all, they will be a true historic outlier, and Wembanyama will put something on his résumé that would be unmatched by any of the names in the GOAT conversation as he begins his hopeful climb towards those heights.
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