Reading archive 2021-05-05

Four years after a man’s execution, lawyers say DNA from the murder weapon points to someone else

‘Disgusting and horrific’ stabbing at San Francisco bus stop seriously injures two Asian women

Police ID man accused of stabbing 2 older Asian women waiting at SF bus stop

Video shows stranger attacking Asian woman with hammer in NYC: The woman was hit in the head by someone who demanded that she remove her mask, police said. A woman with the victim was not injured.

Retinoids remain the gold standard for fighting acne and wrinkles. Here’s what you should know.

‘Uncertainty is not our friend’: Scientists are still struggling to understand the sea level risks posed by Antarctica: Two scientific studies find the Paris climate goals could significantly reduce sea level rise by 2100 -- but also show scientists still grappling with how climate change will alter the world’s largest ice sheet.

Facebook’s Oversight Board upholds ban on Trump. At least for now.: The panel faulted the social network for making a hasty decision without clear criteria and told the company to reevaluate the decision within six months.

Japan should cut its losses and tell the IOC to take its Olympic pillage somewhere else - "The answer is that the IOC derives its power strictly from the Olympic 'host contract.' It’s a highly illuminating document that reveals much about the highhanded organization and how it leaves host nations with crippling debts. Seven pages are devoted to 'medical services' the host must provide — free of charge — to anyone with an Olympic credential, including rooms at local hospitals expressly reserved for them and only them. Tokyo organizers have estimated they will need to divert about 10,000 medical workers to service the IOC’s demands.

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"The predicament in Tokyo is symptomatic of a deeper, longer-lasting illness in the Olympics. The Games have become a to-the-very-brink exercise in pain and exhaustion for everyone involved, and fewer countries are willing to accept these terms. Greed and blowout costs have rendered it an event that courts extreme disaster. In September, a report out of Oxford University’s business school found that the IOC has consistently “misled” countries about the risks and costs of hosting. Example: The IOC pretends that a contingency of about 9.1 percent is adequate to cover unforeseen expenses.

"The true average cost overrun on a Summer Games? It’s 213 percent.

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"This is why virtually the only government leaders that will have anything to do with the IOC anymore are thugocrats such as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, who can coerce labor and spend limitlessly for prestige. Over the past 20 years, other potential hosts have dried up. Among those who have wisely said no to the IOC: Barcelona, Boston, Budapest, Davos, Hamburg, Krakow, Munich, Oslo, Rome, Stockholm and Toronto."

Opinion: Five former IRS commissioners: Biden’s proposal would create a fairer tax system

Strongmen who got cozy with Trump get the cold shoulder from Biden

Observers report ballots and laptop computers have been left unattended in Arizona recount, according to secretary of state