The Political Page, T+14 -- Four Days Before WInter Olympics, Lifetime Ban(s) On 28 Russian Athletes Overturned -- February 4, 2018

Link here at CNN. I assume it was the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

This follows the sexual molestation scandal.

This is another "event" -- the Winter Olympics -- I won't be watching.

Speaking of which: is there an NFL football game today?

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Now Even The Pope Caught Lying

From the AP via Yahoo, and if it's from the AP you know it has to be true.

Pope Francis received a victim's letter in 2015 that graphically detailed how a priest sexually abused him and how other Chilean clergy ignored it, contradicting the pope's recent insistence that no victims had come forward to denounce the cover-up, the letter's author and members of Francis' own sex- abuse commission have told The Associated Press.

The fact that Francis received the eight-page letter, obtained by the AP, challenges his insistence that he has "zero tolerance" for sex abuse and cover-ups. It also calls into question his stated empathy with abuse survivors, compounding the most serious crisis of his five-year papacy.

The scandal exploded last month when Francis' trip to South America was marred by protests over his vigorous defense of Bishop Juan Barros, who is accused by victims of covering up the abuse by the Rev. Fernando Karadima. During the trip, Francis callously dismissed accusations against Barros as "slander," seemingly unaware that victims had placed him at the scene of Karadima's crimes.

On the plane home, confronted by an AP reporter, the pope said: "You, in all good will, tell me that there are victims, but I haven't seen any, because they haven't come forward."

I guess it depends on the definition of "come forward." Apparently an 8-page letter is not "coming forward." It's simply an epistle.