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The Short List

Sat Jul 27 2024

 

John Riley Audience Editor

Time to go for the gold: The 2024 Paris Olympics are here!

πŸ₯Bonjour, mes amis! I'm John Riley, and today's edition of The Short List is all about the Games, which kicked off in the City of Light on Friday. (How about that spectacular opening ceremony on the Seine? Goosebumps. πŸŽ†) Get ready to enjoy wall-to-wall coverage of Team USA, the scene in Paris, and more. All together, now: "U-S-A! U-S-A!"

By the way ... If you're not the sporting type, no worries: We've got plenty of other great reads. Just scroll down for more of USA TODAY's best stories of the week.

First things first

Olympics homepage: News, medal count and results from Paris
How to watch: Stream the Games with these tipsπŸ“Ί
Medal events schedule: Which days medals can be wonπŸ₯‡
NBC coverage: The network has big plans for these Games
10 biggest questions: Can Paris really pull these Games off?

All about Team USA

Full team roster: Who's competing? How many athletes are there?πŸƒ
Medal milestones: Team USA poised for huge medal haulπŸ…
Men's basketball: Who can challenge Team USA? Power rankingsπŸ€
Simone Biles: Legend has five gymnastics skills named after her🀸🏾‍♀️
Joel Embiid: Hoops star could have played for France or Cameroon⛹🏾
Katie Ledecky: Swimmer can do something only Phelps has achieved🏊‍♀️
Coco Gauff: Tennis star opens up about her Olympic debut🎾

Paris and more

Beautiful views: The Paris landmarks being used as Olympic venues
Transforming Versailles: How historic site was turned into equestrian venue🐎
Inside the Olympic village: Here's what we sawπŸ“Ή
Swimming in the (dirty) Seine: Would you do it?

Looking for more? Just scroll down for more great stories.πŸ‘‡ See you next week.

Vice President Kamala Harris is considering potential running mates from a pool of Democratic politicians.

Here's a look at nine of Harris' vice presidential prospects – and the pros and cons for each as Democrats try to maintain hold of the White House.

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Charlotte Dujardin of Great Britain riding Gio during the Dressage Individual Grand Prix Freestyle Final during the Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021 due to the pandemic. She won bronze.
 

Dressage at make-or-break point after video shows Olympian abusing horse

To have someone of Charlotte Dujardin's stature caught in abuse scandal may be wake-up call or tipping point that leads to Olympics dropping dressage.

Vice President Kamala Harris (left), Taylor Swift (top right), Jennifer Aniston (bottom right) and when we reduce women to "childless cat ladies."
 

Kamala Harris, the 'cat lady' trope and why Jennifer Aniston is right

Where did "childless cat lady" come from? Men don't get the same treatment. A single man is a "bachelor" in an enviable "bachelor pad." Why?

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare on May 10. A subset of extreme ultraviolet light highlights the extremely hot material in flares.
 

Last week's tech outage was bad. The sun has something worse planned.

In what some have dubbed an "internet apocalypse," activity originating on the sun's surface could cause a massive communications outage on Earth.

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - JULY 24: U.S. Republican Presidential nominee former President Donald Trump exits after speaking at his campaign rally at the Bojangles Coliseum on July 24, 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The rally is the former president's first since President Joe Biden announced he would be ending his reelection bid. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
 

The script flips: Now Trump faces critical questions before election

Donald Trump badgered Joe Biden for months with questions about his age, physical health and mental acuity. Now it's Trump who is being taunted.

Ashley Hefley and her partner Anna found out they were pregnant within months of each other.
 

She's polyamorous and got pregnant. Then, her husband's other partner did too.

The polyamorous community wants people to know that pregnancy does not suddenly disqualify someone from being ethically non-monogamous.

Watch the moment two fishermen get thrown overboard after a breaching humpback whale crashes into their boat.
 

A whale flipped a fishing boat. Experts think they know why.

No one was injured when the whale lept from the water and slammed into the boat.

These images were released to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Chandra. They represent the wide range of objects that the telescope has observed over its quarter century of observations. X-rays are an especially penetrating type of light that reveals extremely hot objects and very energetic physical processes. The images range from supernova remnants, like Cassiopeia A, to star-formation regions like the Orion Nebula, to the region at the center of the Milky   Way. This montage also contains objects beyond our own Galaxy including other galaxies and galaxy clusters.
 

NASA releases eye-popping images of nebulae, galaxies in space

NASA released 25 new pictures in honor of the Chandra telescope's quarter-of-a-century anniversary in space.

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 parked at the gate.
 

Big changes are coming to Southwest, including assigned seating

Southwest is overhauling its whole boarding process, among other changes designed to "elevate the customer experience."

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