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Serena Williams earned a spot at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, but she’s decided she won’t be using it.   On Sunday at the All-England Club, the day before play begins at Wimbledon, the four-time Olympic gold medalist told reporters that she’s not going to Tokyo to compete for a fifth.  “I’m actually not on the Olympic list, not that I’m aware of,” Williams said via ESPN. “If so, then I shouldn’t be on it.” Williams declines to explain her decision Williams, 39, was asked why she decided to… Source link

SEOUL (Reuters) – Everyone in North Korea is heartbroken over leader Kim Jong Un’s apparent weight loss, said an unidentified resident of Pyongyang quoted on the country’s tightly controlled state media, after watching recent video footage of Kim.    The rare public comment on Kim’s health come after foreign analysts noted in early June that the autocratic leader, who is believed to be 37, appeared to have lost a noticeable amount of weight.    “Seeing respected general secretary (Kim… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The Cajee brothers, who ran a cryptocurrency investment platform from South Africa that the local regulator suspects of being a Ponzi scheme, are confounding both their family and desperate investors alike. It’s still hard to establish the whereabouts of Ameer and Raees Cajee, the pair that operated Johannesburg-based Africrypt since 2019. They appear to have vanished, along with an estimated $3.6 billion in Bitcoin — an amount that a lawyer for the brothers said was… Source link

Oh boy, crypto miners. Companies like SOS Limited (SOS) have been on a rocky ride of late, to say the least. Since hitting a high of nearly $16 per share earlier this year during the initial meme stock rally, shares of SOS stock have been on a downward trajectory. Currently, SOS stock trades at around $3 per share, at the time of writing. There are good reasons for this, and those will be described below. However, the real focus with SOS stock right now, at least among retail investors, is the… Source link

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday. (Associated Press) When he meets with Pope Francis on Monday, the United States’ top diplomat will try to avoid the elephant in the room. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken intends to speak to the pontiff about shared values and ideas — fighting climate change, people trafficking, violence and racism. But on the minds of many involved is a festering dispute that has pitted Francis against a group of… Source link

New legislation that would grant tax credits to accelerate solar energy manufacturing in the U.S. aims to make America competitive with China, in an industry China dominates globally. Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff (D), the bill’s sponsor, said it could also create up to 60,000 new jobs in the next decade. In an interview with Yahoo Finance Live, Ossoff framed the race to manufacture clean energy domestically as a ‘national security imperative’ and a ‘major’ job creation… Source link

A dozen of the world’s smallest pigs have been released into the wild in northeastern India as part of a conservation programme to boost the population of a species once thought to have become extinct. The pygmy hog, which has the scientific name porcula salvania, lives in tall, wet grasslands and was once found along plains on the Himalayan foothills in India, Nepal and Bhutan. Its population declined in the 1960s, leading to fears it had become extinct until it was rediscovered in India’s… Source link

The Clippers had nothing against the Suns defense. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) It wasn’t pretty, but the Phoenix Suns are one game away from the NBA Finals. The Suns defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 84-80 in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals on Saturday to take a commanding 3-1 series lead. The series hasn’t exactly been a highlight reel overall, but the ugliness reached another level in Game 4, with both teams posting their lowest scoring output of the playoffs. The… Source link

Maybe the Los Angeles Clippers really are cursed. They had every opportunity to win a brutally ugly Game 4 of the Western Conference finals, and when they did not fail themselves, the officials did them no favors in an 84-80 loss to the Phoenix Suns. Perhaps it is fitting that the fewest points allowed in a loss this entire NBA season dropped the Clippers into a 3-1 hole. The Clippers did all the necessary work to turn a 50-36 halftime deficit into a three-point game entering the fourth… Source link

Gwen Berry is still protesting injustice during the national anthem. (Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski). The penultimate day of the U.S. Olympic trials in track and field saw quite the coincidence. Or not, as Gwen Berry believes. The American hammer thrower qualified for her second Olympics on Saturday with a throw of 241 feet and 2 inches, finishing third in the event behind DeAnna Price and Brooke Andersen. All three will head to Tokyo, but the intrigue began when the trio took the podium for their… Source link