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A view of the Olympic Rings at Olympic Park prior to the 2016 Rio Olympic games.(Photo: John David Mercer, USA TODAY Sports)
[h=2]Baseball, softball might return to the 2020 Olympics[/h]Sport climbing and karate<span style="color: Red;">*</span>could soon be coming to the Olympics.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>While most of the world focuses on the looming<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Rio Olympics, the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>International Olympic Committee will vote Wednesday on a recommendation<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to add a package of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>five sports — baseball/softball, surfing, karate, skateboarding and sport climbing —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. The sports<span style="color: Red;">*</span>would add 18 events and 474 athletes to the Games. In this summer’s Rio Olympics, which open Friday, more than 10,000 athletes will compete in over 300 events in 42 different sports.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Check our primer to get ready for the action, and check out the greatest American moments in Summer Olympic history.
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[h=2]Libertarian presidential nominee gets his time under the spotlight[/h]Libertarian presidential nominee<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Gary Johnson<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and his running<span style="color: Red;">*</span>mate,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Bill Weld, will participate in a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>CNN town<span style="color: Red;">*</span>hall Wednesday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>night in New York.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Johnson, a former New Mexico governor, and Weld, a former<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Massachusetts governor,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>will speak to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Anderson Cooper<span style="color: Red;">*</span>during the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>one-hour event.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The duo has gained momentum this election season as both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are suffering from high unfavorable ratings.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Johnson<span style="color: Red;">*</span>told USA TODAY last week<span style="color: Red;">*</span>he was discussing a potential endorsement with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
Campaign buttons are pictured for Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson and vice presidential candidate Bill Weld at the National Libertarian Party Convention on May 27, 2016, in Orlando.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: John Raoux, AP)
[h=2]Tesla adds financial burden with<span style="color: Red;">*</span>SolarCity acquisition[/h]Clean energy powerhouse Tesla Motors announces its quarterly earnings Wednesday,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>just two days after the automaker<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reached<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a deal<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to acquire solar panel installer SolarCity.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Tesla CEO and SolarCity Chairman Elon Musk said the deal will help Tesla go<span style="color: Red;">*</span>from an electric-car manufacturer to a renewable-energy products company.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Tesla has been mired in controversy over its<span style="color: Red;">*</span>autopilot feature,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>most recently<span style="color: Red;">*</span>parting ways<span style="color: Red;">*</span>with a top supplier of the technology after a Tesla car owner was killed while using self-driving functions in May.
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[h=2]Black Hat is here: Cybersecurity<span style="color: Red;">*</span>industry gathers in Sin City[/h]The computer security industry will convene in Las Vegas Wednesday for Black Hat,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the largest and most prestigious of three conferences this week dedicated to hashing out the myriad creepy ways criminals can breach our increasingly connected world.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Of the other conferences, BSides is more technical and DefCon is for hackers. More than 11,000 people attended Black Hat last year. The corporate security community will discuss topics such as drones that could link into unsecured networks, the dangers of Wi-Fi at vacation rentals and how ransomware could be used to hijack connected cars.
The drone that the Wood County Sheriff's Department purchased sits on the ground before a demonstration behind the South Wood County Recreation Center in Wisconsin Rapids, Wednesday, July 1, 2015.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin file photo)
[h=2]USWNT start their quest for another gold medal[/h]Sure, Rio's opening ceremony doesn't take place until Friday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>but the Olympic soccer program gets underway Wednesday as the United States women's national team faces New Zealand<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in Belo Horizonte (6 p.m. ET, NBCSN).<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Led by team captain Carli Lloyd and fellow superstars Alex Morgan and Hope Solo, Team USA are favored to win their fourth straight Olympic gold medal this summer, though it won't be easy — twelve teams are divided into three groups of four,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>with the top two teams from each group and the top two third-place nations advancing to the quarterfinals.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>USMNT, led by manager Jill Ellis, faces battle-tested Group G foes in France and Colombia,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>while a scintillating semifinal against host nation Brazil offers an intriguing roadblock to USA's summer plans.
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U.S. soccer player Carli Lloyd is ready to play for gold in the Rio Olympics.
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