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Sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson is representing Team USA at the Paris Summer Olympics. Her appearance at the Olympics finishes off a three-year ordeal that began before the Tokyo Games, when Richardson tested positive for cannabis—a banned substance under World Anti-Doping Agency Rules—after bursting into the American sporting consciousness with an outstanding performance at the Olympic trials in 2021. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Here’s a detailed look at why Sha’Carri Richardson was suspended from the Tokyo Olympics and the impact that setback had on the athlete. Why was Sha’Carri Richardson suspended?

MIAMI — A tropical depression over Cuba is growing better organized, forecasters said Saturday, and is likely to bring drenching rain and coastal flooding to much of Florida’s Gulf Coast. The storm strengthened into a tropical depression late Friday, and is expected to become a tropical storm by Saturday night, once it has maximum sustained winds of 39 mph (63 kph) or more.

PARIS — IOC President Thomas Bach said Saturday the “hate speech” directed at boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting at the Paris Olympics is “totally unacceptable.” “We will not take part in a politically motivated … cultural war,” Bach said at a news briefing at the midway point of the games, that also tried to draw a line under days of global scrutiny about the female boxers’ gender. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “What is going on in this context in the social media with all this hate speech, with this aggression and abuse, and fueled by this agenda, is totally unacceptable,” the International Olympic Committee leader said. Khelif of Algeria and Lin of Taiwan have been the focus of intense attention — and often inaccurate commentary — because both were disqualified at the 2023 world championships. The Russian-led International Boxing Association — which has been banished from the Olympics by the IOC in a yearslong dispute — removed the boxers from the worlds 16 months ago in India citing gender-based tests that are still unspecified and unproven. Read More: Olympic Boxers Don’t Want to Talk About the Gender Controversy The women’s boxing issue was linked by Bach to what he called a wider, Russian-led campaign against the IOC and Paris Olympics where only 15 Russian athletes are competing, and as neutrals without their national identity.

This weekend Vice President Kamala Harris is said to be interviewing the final candidates for her own vice presidential running mate. The final candidates to be considered include the Democratic governors of Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Kentucky along with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. If Harris wants to sustain the momentum of her campaign and give herself the best chance to win in November, we believe that Pennsylvania Gov.

Why accept a plea deal in 9/11 case? Re: “Suspected 9/11 plotter agrees to plead guilty,” Aug. 1 news story Are you kidding me? Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 tragedy. He is suspected of not only providing money but also training the terrorists. And he gets a plea deal?

Dear Eric: In 2012, my father died leaving valuable land as part of his estate. After selling the property, I paid off my two daughters’ homes, saving them more than $500,000 in future payments. My ex-wife and mother of my daughters passed away a couple of years ago. She had a son by another husband.