July 23, 2021 - 3:04 AM
As Tokyo Games open, can Olympic flame burn away the funk?
TOKYO (AP) â Disputed, locked down and running a year late, the Tokyo Games begin at last on Friday night, a multinational showcase of the finest athletes of a world fragmented by disease â and an event steeped in the political and medical baggage of a relentless pandemic whose presence haunts every Olympic corner.
As the first pandemic Games in a century convene largely without spectators and opposed by much of the host nation, the disbelief and anger of those kept outside the near-deserted national stadium threaten to drown out the usual carefully packaged glitz and soaring rhetoric about sports and peace that are the hallmarks of the opening ceremony.
Senate Democrats question the thoroughness of the FBI s background investigation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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July 22, 2021 - 8:04 PM
Vaccinations rise in some states with soaring infections
Vaccinations are beginning to rise in some states where COVID-19 cases are soaring, White House officials said Thursday in a sign that the summer surge is getting the attention of vaccine-hesitant Americans as hospitals in the South are being overrun with patients.
Coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters that several states with the highest proportions of new infections have seen residents get vaccinated at higher rates than the nation as a whole. Officials cited Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada as examples.
âThe fourth surge is real, and the numbers are quite frightening at the moment,â Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said on a New Orleans radio show. Edwards, a Democrat, added: âThereâs no doubt that we are going in the wrong direction, and weâre going there in a hurry.â
Vaccinations rise in some states with soaring infections
Vaccinations are beginning to rise in some states where COVID-19 cases are soaring, White House officials said Thursday in a sign that the summer surge is getting the attention of vaccine-hesitant Americans as hospitals in the South are being overrun with patients.
Coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters that several states with the highest proportions of new infections have seen residents get vaccinated at higher rates than the nation as a whole. Officials cited Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada as examples.
âThe fourth surge is real, and the numbers are quite frightening at the moment,â Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said on a New Orleans radio show. Edwards, a Democrat, added: âThereâs no doubt that we are going in the wrong direction, and weâre going there in a hurry.â
Updated July 22
Democrats renew questions about FBI background check of Kavanaugh
Director Christopher Wray disclosed in a letter late last month that the FBI had received more than 4,500 tips as it investigated the nominee s past.
By ERIC TUCKERAssociated Press
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WASHINGTON Senate Democrats are raising new concerns about the thoroughness of the FBI’s background investigation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after the FBI revealed that it had received thousands of tips and had provided “all relevant” ones to the White House counsel’s office.
FBI Director Christopher Wray, responding to longstanding questions from Democrats, disclosed in a letter late last month that it had received more than 4,500 tips as it investigated the nominee’s past following his 2018 nomination by President Donald Trump. The process was the first time that the FBI had set up a tip line for a nominee undergoing Senate confirmation, Wray said.
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