Eugene

World and Olympic pole vault champion Armand "Mondo" Duplantis retained his European title in comprehensive fashion in Munich on Aug. 20.

Duplantis, fresh from breaking his own world record in Eugene as he clinched world gold with 6.21 meters last month, set a championship record of 6.06m at the Olympic Stadium.

The founder of the American Hellenic Institute (AHI) and one of the most active proponents of Greek, Cypriot and Greek-American interests in Washington, DC, Eugene (Gene) Rossides has died, the AHI said in an announcement on Monday. He was 92.

Surrounded by family and his soon-to-be Supreme Court colleagues, Neil Gorsuch took the first of two oaths on April 10 as he prepared to take his seat on the court and restore its conservative majority.