Group Submits Petition Urging Organizers To Cancel Tokyo Olympics
The online petition gained 351,868 signatures, criticizing the games amid a fourth wave of coronavirus infections in Japan.

Can the Winter Olympics survive climate change?
The Winter Olympics have already been postponed due to climate change and lack of quality snow, leaving many to wonder how the Games will go on.
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Athletes Force A Change In Ban Of Russians At Paralympics
The tipping point to the rapid turn of events Thursday was "a very, very volatile environment" in the athletes village in Beijing at the Paralympics.
By Dita Alangkara / AP
Olympic Committee Calls For Russia To Be Excluded From Sports
The IOC also withdrew the Olympic Order it gave Vladimir Putin in 2001, and other Russian officials since.
By Pavel Golovkin / APTop Stories

For 'Amtrak Joe' Biden, Baltimore rail tunnel visit is personal
President Biden will visit the aging Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel that's slated to be replaced with help from bipartisan infrastructure legislation.
By Patrick Semansky / AP
Biden, McCarthy to discuss debt limit in talks Wednesday
McCarthy said he wants to address spending cuts along with raising the debt limit, but said cuts to Social Security and Medicare are off the table.
By Alex Brandon / AP
Barrett Strong, Motown artist known for 'Money,' dies at 81
Strong is known for his work on Motown classics like "Money," "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" and others.
By Louis Lanzano / AP