$2.00 E6 THE NATION’S NEWS WEDNESDAY IN LIFE ABC doubles down on laughs Network’s fall schedule will have 10 comedies 05.18.16 “SPEECH- LESS,” BY ABC RUSSIA TRACK TEAM COULD MISS RIO life-long Olympic bans for any Many of the recent allegations IOC president hints at Summer Games ban implicated person, financial sanc- center around Russia. Its Federal if doping program allegations prove true tions and the suspension of entire Security Service allegedly was in- national federations. volved in manipulating samples A.J. Perez in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Bach’s piece was published on during the 2014 Sochi Olympics Sochi. The IOC has asked the the same day the IOC announced and athletes were encouraged USA TODAY Sports World Anti-Doping Agency 31 athletes from the 2008 Beijing to use performance-enhancing (WADA) to investigate the claims. Games were flagged for doping drugs, according to reports. International Olympic Com- “Should the investigation when 454 samples were retested. An investigation by WADA’s in- mittee President Thomas Bach prove the allegations true it The names were not released. dependent commission released did not rule out banning Russia’s would represent a shocking new Samples from the 2012 London in November found that Russia’s track and field federation from dimension in doping with an, un- Olympics also are being retested, track and field federation led a the Summer Olympics Tuesday, til now, unprecedented level of and the IOC is expected to soon state-sponsored doping effort. adding that the IOC “would react criminality,” Bach wrote. “There announce the findings from 250 The report resulted in the Inter- with its record of proven zero- can be no doubt ... that the IOC samples that were analyzed. national Association of Athletics tolerance policy” if allegations of would react with its record of “This decisive action will most Federations suspending Russia’s widespread doping are true. proven zero-tolerance policy not LUCA PIERGIOVANNI, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY likely stop some dozens of doped track and field team. In an op-ed for USA TODAY, only with regard to individual IOC President Thomas Bach athletes participating in the Rio The Department of Justice also Bach focused on allegations that athletes, but to all their entourage says Russia’s alleged program Olympic Games,” Bach wrote, re- is investigating Russia’s alleged Russian athletes were involved in within its reach.” “would represent a shocking ferring to retesting samples from doping efforts, The New York a state-sponsored doping scheme He said action could include new dimension in doping.” the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. Times reported Tuesday. NEWSLINE IN NEWS Bombings kill at least 69 in Iraq Senate approves $1.1B for Zika war CHARLES BERTRAM, AP Clinton tweets Deal reached as that she won summer mosquito Kentucky primary menace looms But Sanders takes win in Erin Kelly Oregon contest. USA TODAY IN MONEY WASHINGTON As the summer mosquito season fast approaches, Millennials’ the Senate voted Tuesday to ad- vance a bipartisan compromise homeownership that would provide $1.1 billion to dream is at risk help public health officials battle the Zika virus as it begins to threaten the continental USA. Saudis own $117B Senators voted 68-29 to ad- AHMAD AL-RUBAYE, AFP/GETTY IMAGES vance an amendment by Sens. stake in the U.S. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Patty Mur- Info concealed for 42 A suicide bomb detonated in Baghdad’s Sadr City on Tuesday. Estimates by a U.S.-led coali- ray, D-Wash., to provide the years; China still top tion show the Islamic State has lost 45% of the territory it once held in Iraq. The recent bomb- emergency funding, which would ings reflect growing pressure the Islamic State is coming under, analysts say. IN NEWS be used for mosquito control, holder of U.S. treasuries. public education and the devel- opment of a vaccine. The amend- IN SPORTS ment is set to be attached to two unrelated spending bills that Answers elusive must be given final approval. Genetic ‘frankenfood’ found “This is a bipartisan first step in ex-Notre Dame toward protecting families from player’s killing this virus,” not harmful to human health Murray said Still no on the Senate There suspects have been Elizabeth Weise floor Tuesday. in Greg Federal more than @eweise COMMON GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS Bryant’s USA TODAY health offi- Percentage of U.S commercially grown crops that are genetically cials warn shooting engineered (in 2015): 500 that people in cases of death. SAN FRANCISCO Genetically en- the USA will AP gineered crops are safe for hu- become in- Zika in the mans and animals to eat and have fected with continental HOME DELIVERY not caused increases in cancer, locally trans- USA. 1-800-872-0001 obesity, gastrointestinal illnesses, mitted Zika as USATODAYSERVICE.COM kidney disease, autism or aller- temperatures rise and mosquito gies, according to a National activity increases. The mosqui- Academies of Sciences report re- Sugar beets Soybeans Cotton Feed corn toes that carry the disease are al- leased Tuesday. ready in the country. QIJFAF-03005x(c)a Acommittee of more than 50 99% 94%94% 92% There have been more than experts compared disease reports 500 cases of Zika in the continen- ©COPYRIGHT 2016 USA TODAY, from the United States and Cana- SMALL-ACREAGE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS tal USA, but all of them have been A division of Gannett Co., Inc. da — where genetically modified connected to travel to Latin fare has been consumed since the America or the Caribbean — the USA SNAPSHOTS© mid-1990s — with reports in the areas hardest hit by the disease. United Kingdom and western The Senate compromise would Shaky on STEM Europe, where genetically modi- provide $800 million less than fied foods are not widely eaten. Canola Alfalfa Papaya Zucchini Apples Potatoes the $1.9 billion President Obama The analysis found no long-term Source International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications has sought since February, but it pattern of increases in specific PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES, EPA; GRAPHIC: GEORGE PETRAS, USA TODAY is more than the House proposes. Nearly health problems. Republican House leaders intro- The report comes at a time $5 trillion in 2014, estimates re- The number of commercially duced legislation Monday that 42% when there is much controversy search group Packaged Facts. grown, genetically modified crops would provide $622 million in Zi- of Americans about the safety of these crops, Non-GMO products accounted worldwide is low, below 12, the ka funding, which they would pay say they called GMOs for “for genetically for $550 billion of that. National Academies of Sciences for in part by using money allo- would have modified organisms,” as well as Genetically modified crops can says. Yet, the U.S. produces some cated to fight Ebola. The bill considered deemed “frankenfood” by critics. help save producers significant substantial crops, including cot- could come to a vote this week. STEM courses There are many opinions on money since those crops are de- ton and canola. The genetic ma- The Obama administration, if they better the farming, packaging and ad- signed to resist weeds and insects terial of these plants is artificially which is already using nearly understood the career path. vertising of GMO foods, and that lower yields. Yet, new rules manipulated to give them charac- $600 million in Ebola funds to those stances have a substantial on GMO labeling are costing teristics such as pest resistance. fight Zika, threatened Tuesday to effect on businesses worldwide. manufacturers. Nearly six in 10 Americans veto the House bill. Note STEM stands for science, technology, The effect of GMOs on the Food makers are now prepar- were concerned that genetically Although the Ebola epidemic engineering and mathematics world’s food supply is enormous: ing to comply with a Vermont law modified foods posed a health in 2013-2015 in West Africa has Source Emerson survey of 1,019 U.S. adults The global food and beverage that will require GMOs to be la- hazard, according to a survey re- been controlled, new outbreaks TERRY BYRNE AND PAUL TRAP, USA TODAY market was worth more than beled beginning July 1. leased last year by NPD Group. could occur. STATE-BY-STATE 4A AMERICA’S MARKETS 4B MARKETPLACE TODAY 4D PUZZLES 4D TONIGHT ON TV 5D WEATHER 6A YOUR SAY 6A USA TODAY WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016 NEWS 2A VOICES Running of the weird at Bay to Breakers across San Francisco — from the As the crowd started running, I Natalie DiBlasio Bay to the Pacific Ocean — would felt the way I do on the best of @ndiblasio boost morale, so in 1912, 186 run- runs. Like I am flying. Like run- USA TODAY ners ran the inaugural race, and ning is a celebration of life. I the event took off from there. In passed a runner dressed as a can 1986, about 110,000 participants of Spam with a robot mask, run- set a world record for the world’s ning alongside a man in a green largest footrace. leaf skirt, draped in purple bal- SAN FRANCISCO By 7:42 a.m., I’d I am in the thick of marathon loons — a bunch of grapes, clearly. been hit in the face with a tortilla training. I have a lofty, hopefully I laughed out loud. Men and twice. reachable, goal of qualifying for women of all body types and ages I followed the second floury the Boston Marathon — a com- ran naked through Golden Gate disk with my eyes as it hit the road mon yet challenging aspiration in Park, some stopping to high-five beneath me, and I noticed dozens the marathon community.