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The IOC says it will get closer to gender balance among Olympic athletes, boosting women to nearly 49 percent of the total at the Tokyo 2020 Games, from 45.6 percent in Rio.

With the Mega Millions jackpot at $1.6 billion, many may be tempted to enter an office pool to up their chances. Jason Kurland, known as "The Lottery Lawyer" says watch out for potential problems.

The drawing was Tuesday at 11 p.m. ET. The odds for holding the winning ticket were about 1 in 302 million.

An antibody-based drug reduces the frequency of migraine headaches, according to data reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration. The agency approved Aimovig, priced at about $6,900 a year.

Stand-up comic JIMMY TINGLE. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/1/90)Filmmaker PAUL MAZURSKY. Mazursky's movies include "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice," "Enemies: A Love Story," "Down and Out In Beverly Hills" and "Scenes From a Mall." (REBROADCAST FROM 2/18/91)Author ROBB FORMAN DEW. In her novels--Dale Loves Sophie to Death (Harper Perennial) and Fortunate Lives (Harper Perennial) - DEW explored the ambiguities and intricacies of families. DEW made her non-fiction debut with a memoir about her son's coming out and the family evolution that followed. It's called The Family Heart and it's just been published in paperback (Ballantine). (REBROADCAST FROM 5/12/94)Writer GARY PAULSEN. He is a prolific writer of children's books. He began writing over twenty years ago, when he was coming to terms with his alcoholism. In 1985, PAULSON won the Newberry Award for children's fiction with Dogsong. He reads from his memoir Eastern Sun, Western Moon. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/12/93)DOROTHY BEAM-Her son Joe Beam died of AIDS in 1989. He was a writer who was in the process of editing his second anthology of Black gay writing. Dorothy helped finish the work her son started, and it was published in 1992 as Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (Alyson Publications). (REBROADCAST FROM 2/

Now in his 90s, World War II veteran Frank DeVita recalls his experience as a teenager in the Coast Guard, serving on a landing craft transporting infantry to invade Omaha Beach on the coast of Nazi-occupied France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Some Georgia voters filed a legal challenge arguing that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is constitutionally disqualified from holding office because of her involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The Commerce Department says the U.S. gross domestic product grew at just 0.6 percent in the final quarter of 2007. That is the weakest growth rate in five years for the GDP.

Once there were 100 cases, the government imposed broad confinement measures. More than seven weeks later, with 317 coronavirus-related deaths, Argentina is easing its lockdown outside Buenos Aires.

Home sales saw a fourth straight month of declines in the San Antonio area, dropping 15% in July, compared to the same time period last year.