Olympic sprinter, Sha’Carri Richardson, has been suspended for 30 days from competition and was not selected for the US Olympic team following a drug test in which she tested positive for THC which is the active component in marijuana. The two organizations responsible for overseeing the drug tests for Olympic athletes, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), have marijuana on their lists of forbidden drugs. In response to the suspension and failure to qualify for the US Olympic team over 500,000 people have signed a petition to re-instate Richardson and select her for the Tokyo Olympics.

Justin Bullock, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Michael Avenatti has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison following a conviction of extortion of sports apparel giant, Nike, Inc. Avenatti was a momentary flashy and bombastic foe of former president Trump when he represented pornographic actress Stormy Daniels in her law suits against Trump […]

In a press conference given on Thursday, President Joe Biden doubled down on his decision to pull the remaining U.S. military forces out of Afghanistan. He also announced that he is moving up the deadline for this decision from September 11 of this year to August 31, and that 650 troops will stay behind to provide security for the U.S. embassy in Kabul.

Trevor Bauer, a pricey free agent pitcher for the L.A. Dodgers and winner of the 2020 NL Cy Young Award, was suspended several weeks ago following allegations that he had sexually abused a woman in the spring of 2021. According to reports, Bauer had choked her almost to a point of losing consciousness and had also beaten and raped her.  Bauer, through his legal team, has denied any wrongdoing, claiming the encounters were consensual.

A new study from Israel’s health ministry indicates that the Pfizer vaccine is less effective against the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus. The Delta variant first emerged in India and is quickly becoming the dominant strain of COVID-19 around the world.

The controversy surrounding the 2021 Tokyo Olympics due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan continues as the country has declared another state of emergency and banned spectators from the Olympics. Japan recently just lifted a state of emergency due to the pandemic as the number of new COVID-19 cases had significantly dropped. This brought hope that the delayed 2021 Olympics would have a relatively normal festivities, but due to a significant rise in new COVID-19 cases Japan was forced to re-instate the state of emergency as well as ban spectators.

Following the shocking assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse on Wednesday, government authorities have arrested six individuals that they believe carried out the murder. The Haitian government also recovered the bodies of at least four others who were killed during a shootout with police.