(CNN) US track and field star Sha'Carri Richardson has been suspended for one month from the Olympic team after testing positive for THC, a chemical found in marijuana, the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced on Friday.
"The rules are clear, but this is heartbreaking on many levels; hopefully, her acceptance of responsibility and apology will be an important example to us all that we can successfully overcome our regrettable decisions, despite the costly consequences of this one to her," said USADA CEO Travis T. Tygart in a press release.
Richardson appeared on NBC's TODAY show on Friday morning and said: "I just want to take responsibility for my actions, I know what I......
PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Bill Cosby has been freed from prison after Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned his sexual assault conviction.
The former comedian had appealed to the court in December when his lawyers argued that Cosby’s entire life was put on trial that caused him to suffer unquantifiable prejudice.
The Supreme Court agreed to review two aspects of the case that Cosby’s lawyers challenged. The first involved the judge’s decision to let prosecutors call five other accusers. The other examined Cosby’s argument that he had an agreement with a former prosecutor that he’d never be charged.
The Supreme......
President Biden used a portion of his White House remarks before signing a bill to make Juneteenth a new federal holiday to recognize Opal Lee, calling her an "incredible woman."
"Opal, you're incredible. A daughter of Texas. Grandmother of the movement to make Juneteenth a federal holiday," Biden said of the 94-year-old activist.
Biden said that as a child growing up in Texas, Lee's family would celebrate Juneteenth. The President shared that on June 19, 1939, when Lee was 12 years old, a White mob torched her family home. Biden noted that such hate "never stopped her" from her efforts to make it a federal holiday.
"Over the course of......
