Gymnast Simone Biles won a silver medal at the Olympics
US’ 21-year-old gymnast Simone Biles won her fourth medal of the Paris Olympics when she won gold in vault final. In the beam final on Monday, Biles fell to the mat after a flip layout midway through the routine wasn’t in line with what had been planned. She won gold in the vault final on Saturday after performing the hardest vault in women’s gymnastics.
Tropical Storm Debby is expected to make its way to Florida
Tropical Storm Debby has formed off Florida’s coast and is forecast to weaken into a tropical storm. It is the fourth named storm of the 2024 season after Tropical Storm Alberto, Tropical Storm Beryl and Tropical Storm Chris. Hurricane warnings have been issued for portions of the state’s coast with tropical storm warnings for the Florida Keys.
Ledecky wins her 9th gold medal in the 800m
American swimmer Lilly King has become the first female swimmer to win three gold medals at a single Olympics after winning the women’s 200-metre individual medley at the Paris Games on Saturday. In the men’s 200-metre individual medley, American swimmer Caeleb Dressel won gold. King is also the first woman to win three gold medals at a single Olympics.
The gender controversy surrounding the Olympic boxing event
Imane Khelif and Janjaem Suwannpheng were disqualified in the middle of last year’s world championships by the IBA, the former governing body of Olympic boxing, after what it claimed were failed eligibility tests. Khelif and Lin were disqualified in the middle of last year’s world championships by the IBA, the former governing body of Olympic boxing.
The law would protect kids online and hold tech companies accountable
A new law has been passed in the US which would impose new responsibilities on tech platforms accessed by teenagers. The ‘Kids Online Safety Act’ (KOSA) and the’Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act’ would impose new responsibilities on tech platforms accessed by teenagers. It would make it easier to protect their kids from becoming victims of cyberbullying.
The controversy over Olympic boxer Imane Khelif was disgusting
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said that the decision to ban two transgender boxers from the Rio Games was taken without proper procedure. The two boxers, Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, had failed gender eligibility tests in the past. “They are women on their passports, they are women who have competed in the Tokyo Olympics,” IOC said.
Americans including Evan Gershkovich are free after a prisoner swap with Russia
The Turkish government has said that it had played a “key role” in the prisoner exchange between Russia and the US. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, told Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti that Russia had released more than a dozen prisoners in exchange for Paul Whelan, an American jailed in Russia.
The Trump-backed candidate won the Arizona primary
Democratic candidate for Governor of Arizona, Ruben Gallego, said that Kari Lake’s plan to ban abortion and hurt Arizonans is a “dangerous plan”. Lake was the victor in Arizona’s Republican primary this year, with more than half of the vote going to her, compared to Mark Lamb’s and Elizabeth Reye’s votes. Lake has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to get reinstated as governor.
Israel says it killed a Hamas military commander in an airstrike
The Israeli military has said that it carried out an air strike on the residence of Hamas chief Mohammed Deif in Iran’s capital, Tehran. The military added that the strike was carried out in response to several rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel. Deif was killed on July 13 in a strike that killed over 90 people, Gaza’s health ministry said.
The cells that are Turbinate-homing IgA-secreting originate in the nose
Researchers have shown that a novel CD8 T cell population and a “gut-resident memory phenotype” of B cells is found across the human body. They also noted that these subsets and a gut-resident memory phenotype are observed in normal human B cells lympian and germinal center cells via “fine needle aspiration”. They further said that B cell clonal families can be accessed via fine needle aspiration.