Fencer Stephanie Turner decided to take a knee rather than face a transgender opponent. The defiant move came during the Cherry Blossom event hosted at the University of Maryland on Sunday.

Scientists have reconstructed the face of a 1,000-year-old Viking woman buried with weapons — complete with a battle scar, reshaping ideas of Norse gender roles.

A skeleton found in a Viking graveyard in Solør, Norway has been identified as female for years, but experts weren’t sure if the woman was really a warrior when she was alive. Now, cutting-edge facial ...

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