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05-21-21 midday newscast

Christine Brennan, USA Today sports journalist, explains why Simone Biles' Yurchenko double pike feat on Saturday was remarkable — and why it wasn't awarded as such.

A group of seven black bears crashed a high school pool party in Gatlinburg. The bears climbed the fences, ran around the tennis courts and played around in the water.

With the focus shifting again to a Wuhan, China, lab, Dr. Céline Gounder, a COVID-19 adviser to the Biden transition team, says it's important to find the pandemic's origins to prevent the next one.

The move comes days after President Biden offered to lop off $550 billion from his original proposal, moving the two sides closer than they have ever been, though significant challenges remain.

Documentaries from the History Channel, PBS and the National Geographic Channel show the attack that destroyed Tulsa's prominent Black neighborhood 100 years ago is still disturbingly relevant today.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh about the dueling infrastructure bills presented by Republicans and Democrat leaderships, along with the current health of the labor force.

The Biden administration has decided to waive sanctions on the company building a controversial gas pipeline between Russia and Germany.

The ring was found in a store parking lot in Delaware. It turns out, Joanna Gore had loaned the ring to her granddaughter, who lost it but had not told her grandmother it was missing.

Jeffrey Gettleman of the N.Y. Times says the air has been filled with smoke from crematories. Meanwhile, the health care system is collapsing and the black market for oxygen and medicine is thriving.