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United States gymnasts from left, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Maggie Nichols, and Aly Raisman testify during a Senate Judiciary hearing about the Inspector General's report on the FBI's handling of the Larry Nassar investigation on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, in Washington. Nassar was charged in 2016 with federal child pornography offenses and sexual abuse charges in Michigan. He is now serving decades in prison after hundreds of girls and women said he sexually abused them under the guise of medical treatment when he worked for Michigan State and Indiana-based USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)
Biles: FBI turned 'blind eye' to reports of gymnasts' abuse

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Will Graves And Michael Balsamo Sep. 15, 2021 12:48 PM EDT

In this Nov. 4, 2014, file photo, journalists chat near the Beijing's bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics logo after attending a media briefing at the Beijing Olympics Headquarters in Beijing, China. A coalition of human-rights groups has met with the International Olympic Committee over calls to pull the 2022 Winter Olympics out of Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
More questions on human rights for Beijing Winter Olympics

By Stephen Wade Oct. 16, 2020 05:42 AM EDT

Senate passes bill to drastically overhaul USOPC

Aug. 04, 2020 05:21 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill that would give Congress the power to dissolve the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee's board of directors and would more than...

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2019 file photo Olympic Rings and a model of Misha the Bear Cub, the mascot of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, left, are seen in the yard of Russian Olympic Committee building in Moscow, Russia. A U.S. government study concludes that Americans do not get their money’s worth out of the $2.7 million that Congress sent to the World Anti-Doping Agency this year. The report from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy concludes that the U.S. is under-represented on WADA’s key policymaking committees. It says WADA has not moved quickly or far enough to reform itself in the wake of the Russian doping scandal. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)
Study says US doesn't get value from WADA contribution

By Eddie Pells Jun. 24, 2020 02:52 PM EDT

FILE - This file aerial photo, date not known, shows Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. The U.S. government's efforts to clean up decades worth of Cold War-era waste from nuclear research and bomb making at federal sites around the country has chugged along, often at a pace that watchdogs and other critics say threatens public health and the environment. Now, fallout from the global coronavirus pandemic is resulting in more challenges as the nation's only underground repository for nuclear waste, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, finished ramping down operations Wednesday, April 1, 2020, to keep workers safe. (The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)
Cleanup of US nuclear waste takes back seat as virus spreads

By Susan Montoya Bryan Apr. 03, 2020 01:02 AM EDT

More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week,;
Record jobless claims but Dems, GOP divide over rescue bill

By Alan Fram And Andrew Taylor Apr. 02, 2020 04:49 PM EDT