As the winner of Group C and the No. 2 seed, the United States gets a bye into the quarterfinals but is expected to face Sweden.

Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin are halfway to pairs figure skating gold at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics.

Team USA men's hockey (and Dylan Larkin) is taking on Germany (and Moritz Seider) in a preliminary-round game at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz argues that being part of NATO is also to America's advantage.

A former Ukrainian officer, Serhii Kuznietsov, spends his days in near-total isolation at Hamburg's detention center. He is accused by Germany of destroying Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines months

But some certainly hoped for a speedier rebound, given the extraordinary fiscal stimulus on which Germany has embarked. Last March, at Mr Merz’s instigation, the Bundestag approved a €500bn ($595bn) debt-financed fund for climate and infrastructure,

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and Correspondent Rob Schmitz discuss Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, at to the Munich Security Conference.

The two-man bobsled competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics is four runs over two days, the same format the event has used for nearly a century. Germany's Johannes Lochner might have ended this year's event in exactly 54.