| By Bethel Habte (@bethel_habte)
Four U.S. swimmers, including decorated Olympian Ryan Lochte, say they were robbed at gunpoint while they were riding a taxi in Rio last weekend. But Brazilian police have some doubts about the story - enough doubts that two, Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger, were hauled in for questioning at the airport as they tried to leave the country. In fact, Brazilian authorities are trying to question the entire crew all over again, and a judge ordered their passports seized. Well, Lochte had already left the country by the time the order was given. Twitter had a fun time with that one. 
A third swimmer, James Feigen, is still in the country and in communication with police.
Rio Olympics, Day 12: - Three Americans - Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin - took the gold, silver and bronze in the 100 meter hurdles, so landing this shot had to be easy:
Brianna Rollins celebrates winning the gold medal with silver medallist Nia Ali and bronze medallist Kristi Castlin. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
- The basketball game between Spain and the U.S. should prove interesting. The U.S. could claim their third straight gold, but the Spanish team is looking formidable - it has NBA champions, All-Stars and MVPs, too.
- Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson continued her gold streak with a win in the 200-meter dash, following her gold in the 100 meters last week. She became the first woman to win both the 100 and 200 since 1988.
- China dominated table tennis again, but that wasn’t too shocking. The team’s won 28 out of 32 golds since table tennis became an Olympic sport in 1988.
- Check out this gallery of Olympic athletes with their families - it’s pretty hard not to smile.
Around the country - Record floods have devastated southeastern Louisiana, causing more than 13 deaths and damaging more than 40,000 homes. President Barack Obama ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to "utilize all resources available" to attend to the crisis, and things don’t look good:
Quote of the day: "These folks that have flooded, they don’t have shoes. They don’t have underwear. They don’t have shirts. They don’t have toilet paper… All the basic essential needs, they don’t have." -Denham Springs Mayor Gerard Landry - Chicago police killed an unarmed 18-year-old black teenager named Paul O’Neal last month with a single shot to the back according to an autopsy by the Cook County medical examiner's office made public on Wednesday. It’s been ruled a homicide. The Chicago Police Department is currently facing a federal probe of allegations of racism and abuse against minorities.
- The Clinton Foundation has hired a cybersecurity firm after seeing indications they might have been hacked.
Around the world - A premier in western Australia has offered to accept refugees from Australian-funded detention centers on islands in the Pacific, including one that’s been ordered to shut down. But it’s simply a political statement against his country’s controversial immigration policy - resettlement within Australia for these migrants is still illegal, and many are in limbo. "We are really tired from their political games with our souls and bodies and need to start a normal life," a Iranian Kurdish journalist and refugee said.
- The United States is trying to determine whether Russia violated a U.N. Security Council resolution on military dealings with Tehran by using an Iranian air base to carry out strikes inside Syria.
- A car bomb at a police station in eastern Turkey killed at least three police officers and injured 100 people. Though no group has taken responsibility for the attack, a Turkish official told state-run media that he suspects the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an organization responsible for dozens of attacks on police and military posts in the largely Kurdish southeast since 2015.
Around Wall Street - It’s not just Cisco, which announced that it would be cutting 5,500 jobs yesterday. Analysts and recruiters are expecting more tech companies to institute more layoffs as they attempt to keep up with rapid shifts in technology.
- Brexit really didn’t put a damper on British shopping habits. Retail sales jumped by much more than expected last month, adding to signs that the economic shocks after Britain’s decision to exit from the EU hasn’t immediately hit consumers.
- The Fed’s torn on whether to raise interest rates anytime soon. That caused the dollar to hit a seven-week low against a basket of major currencies.
Today’s reason to live 
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