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Some of the nation's top Olympic officials face tough questioning in Congress Wednesday. The sexual abuse of young athletes and their coaches is leading to some changes.

Defense spending is expected to rise only slightly in the White House's proposed Fiscal 2021 budget. The Navy considers overhauling its fleet, and aims to have 355 warships.

The state has reported more than 75,000 confirmed cases, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the peak is still to come. On Tuesday, he expressed frustration that FEMA was hindering, not helping, its efforts.

President Trump shares a tweet from game show host Chuck Woolery, who claimed the CDC is lying about the coronavirus pandemic to hurt the president in November's election.

The middle-school top prize for NPR's second annual Student Podcast Challenge goes to ... The Dragon Kids.

Top Trump officials scrambled to deny they wrote the op-ed in The New York Times from an anonymous "senior official" in the administration. The column blasted Trump and blindsided the White House.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney formally gets into the GOP race for the White House on Thursday. Romney is as close to a front runner as the Republicans have at the moment.

New York Times columnist Gail Collins has already cited the dog in just shy of three dozen columns. She says such moments can reveal character — in this case, Romney's rigid emphasis on efficiency.

The embryos would not be used for reproduction, but rather for the creation of embryonic stem cells. Many scientists believe that human embryonic stem cells made this way could revolutionize medicine.

Severe flooding in Pakistan's Sindh Province has affected eight million people, and covered millions of acres of cropland. This disaster follows last year's epic floods, which were also in southern Pakistan. The country is also dealing with the fallout of an accusation by a top American military official that Pakistan's intelligence agency supported insurgent attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.