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Olympic law rewrite calls for public funding for SafeSport and federal grassroots sports office

Mar. 19, 2024 09:46 AM EDT

DENVER (AP) — A proposed rewrite of the law governing the Olympics in the United States calls on public funding for the embattled U.S. Center for SafeSport while also forming a new government office to oversee grassroots sports that have long been attached to the Olympics themselves. ...

Most money for endangered species goes to a small number of creatures, leaving others in limbo

Dec. 30, 2023 01:08 AM EST

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction. Yet federal government data reveals striking disparities in how much money is...