- KDVR Denver
GOP candidate Dave Williams will not be charged
GOP Congressional candidate Dave Williams will not be charged after being accused of using his position as head of the Colorado GOP to withhold a list of delegates from other candidates.
- Associated Press
Japan police search for suspects in spray-painting of graffiti at controversial war shrine
Japanese police are searching for suspects in the spray-painting of the word “toilet” on a Tokyo shrine that commemorates the country's war dead, in an apparent protest against the ongoing release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, news reports said Monday. The red graffiti, spray-painted on a stone pillar at the entrance of Yasukuni Shrine, was discovered early Saturday morning. In a video posted on Chinese social media, a man who identified himself as Iron Head criticized the discharge of wastewater from the damaged nuclear power plant into the ocean.
- Reuters
Olympics-To beat the heat, athletes bring cool tech to Paris 2024
As the Paris Olympics fast approaches, summertime temperatures will only continue to get hotter, giving athletes additional challenges as they seek to bring home medals. There will be no air conditioning in the athletes' rooms at Paris 2024, which has pledged to host the greenest ever Games, meaning they will have to pay more attention to their body temperatures as they train, recover and compete. "It can be very hot and miserable (in Paris), as it was in Tokyo during the last Olympics," Craig Heller, a biology professor at Stanford University who specialises in body temperature regulation, told Reuters.
