Published Friday, July 30, 2021 | 9 p.m.
Updated Friday, July 30, 2021 | 9:03 p.m.
Simone Biles has withdrawn from the Olympic event finals on Sunday in the vault and uneven bars A national eviction moratorium has expired after President Joe Biden and Congress failed to extend it Caeleb Dressel has won his third gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics with a world record in the 100-meter butterfly The Senate has further advanced a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure plan with a bipartisan group of senators helping it clear one more hurdle Friday President Donald Trump urged senior Justice Department officials to declare the 2020 election results “corrupt” in a December phone call In another big setback for the nation’s efforts to stamp out the coronavirus, scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of the coronavirus as those who did not get the shots Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is vowing he “won’t let grass grow under our feet” as the department begins to implement new vaccine and testing directives The Justice Department says the Treasury Department must provide the House Ways and Means Committee former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, apparently ending a long legal showdown over the records Japanese judo gold medalist Shohei Ono has lost his first bout since 2015 in the quarterfinals of the Olympic debut of the mixed team competition Millions of people in the U.S. who haven’t gotten the COVID-19 vaccine could soon have a new reason to roll up their sleeves: money in their pockets