#Olympics quietly worked to stamp out cheating before Tokyo

#Olympics quietly worked to stamp out cheating before Tokyo

“#Olympics quietly worked to stamp out cheating before Tokyo” A cheating crackdown during Olympic qualifiers resulted in eight track and field athletes being barred entry to this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, investigators revealed on Thursday.  Each of the athletes had their Olympic qualifying performances eradicated over suspicion of cheating.  According to the sport’s Athletics…

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#Norway mourns 77 dead a decade after extremist attack

#Norway mourns 77 dead a decade after extremist attack

“#Norway mourns 77 dead a decade after extremist attack” OSLO, Norway — Church bells rang out across Norway on Thursday, marking 10 years since the country’s worst ever peacetime slaughter as leaders urged their country to fight the extremism that was behind the attack. On July 22, 2011, right-wing extremist Anders Breivik set off a…

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#Man in hit-and-run admits to striking boy in NYC: complaint

#Man in hit-and-run admits to striking boy in NYC: complaint

“#Man in hit-and-run admits to striking boy in NYC: complaint” The Trinitarios gangbanger charged in the hit-and-run that injured a 4-year-old boy in Queens admitted to slamming into the kid with his gas-powered scooter — and then fleeing when an “aggressive crowd” surrounded him, prosecutors said Thursday. Argenis Rivas, 29, also said little Jonathan Beauchamps…

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#WH slams China for ‘dangerous’ rejection of new COVID probe

#WH slams China for ‘dangerous’ rejection of new COVID probe

“#WH slams China for ‘dangerous’ rejection of new COVID probe” White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday slammed China for rejecting a new World Health Organization probe of the origins of COVID-19. “We’re deeply disappointed. Their position is irresponsible and frankly dangerous,” Psaki said at her daily press briefing. Zeng Yixin, vice minister of…

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#Getting a ‘key’ to your apartment building

#Getting a ‘key’ to your apartment building

“#Getting a ‘key’ to your apartment building” Amazon is tired of ringing doorbells. The online shopping giant is pushing landlords around the country — sometimes with financial incentives — to give its drivers the ability to unlock apartment-building doors themselves with a mobile device. The service, dubbed Key for Business, is pitched as a way…

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#Southwest, American post 2Q profits as air travel picks up

#Southwest, American post 2Q profits as air travel picks up

“#Southwest, American post 2Q profits as air travel picks up” American Airlines and Southwest Airlines both posted second-quarter profits on Thursday thanks to generous federal pandemic relief that covers most of their labor costs. The reports on Thursday underscored the progress that airlines are making in rebuilding after the coronavirus crushed air travel — and…

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