One of the most iconic tennis legends of all time, Serena Williams, has announced her plan to retire from the tennis world following the US Open happening in late August until early September. Since her career began in 1997, Williams has won 23 singles Grand Slam titles, only one less than retired Australian player Margaret Court, and has also been awarded 14 Grand Slam doubles titles as well as 3 Olympic gold medals when playing alongside her older sister, Venus Williams. However, after welcoming her daughter Alexis Olympia Jr. in 2017, Williams has decided to move on from her career as a professional athlete in order to focus on expanding her family with her husband, Alexis Ohanian.

The pending reelection of Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney, daughter of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, is not looking too promising ahead of the Wyoming primaries taking place tomorrow, August 16th. While Cheney formerly had an 80% approval rating and was widely adored by the GOP, support from the Republican party plummeted following her disapproval of former President Donald Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6th capitol riots. She followed in her father’s footsteps as Chair of the House Republican Conference before being voted out in 2021 when she voted to impeach Trump following January 6th.

Over 11,000 cases of Monkeypox have now been recorded in the US, with the largest number of individuals infected residing in California, Florida, and New York. Since the first case was detected in Massachusetts on May 18th, this disease has now spread across the country and CDC officials have shared that it may be too late to significantly stop the spread. The Jynneos vaccine, which was developed in 2019 to prevent monkeypox and smallpox, is now being administered in certain areas to those who are over 18 years old and meet certain criteria.

When thinking about the concept of a sports betting app designed for Generation Z, it comes as no surprise that none other than the Vine star turned Youtube star turned Disney star turned professional boxer, Jake Paul, has officially launched a company with this exact platform in mind. What Paul has called “the TikTok-ification of sports betting,” the new app ‘Betr’ will focus on micro-betting, which Fight Sports defined as “betting that occurs during the event on things that could happen or are about to happen,” making it more enticing for the younger generation due to the ability to bet while watching the game, in a lower-stakes situation.

The legal raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was prompted via a search warrant, obtained with the hope of discovering evidence officially tying Trump to the crimes committed on January 6th, 2021. Now, CNN has reported that more than 20 boxes of files, “binders of photos, sets of classified government materials and at least one handwritten note,” as well as “four sets of ‘top secret’ documents, three sets of ‘secret’ documents, and three sets of ‘confidential’ documents” are now in the FBI’s possession. 

With the Covid-19 pandemic still persisting over two years after it began, the most recent CDC announcement that relaxed mandated quarantine may suggest that cases are decreasing, and we can see the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel. Unfortunately, that is not the case, but rather that our society has naturally adapted to the existence of this pandemic, with the CDC sharing that “This guidance acknowledges that the pandemic is not over, but also helps us move to a point where COVID-19 no longer severely disrupts our daily lives.”