Four elite gymnasts testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about sexual abuse by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, saying the FBI failed to protect them. The Washington Post reports that the athletes blasted the agency for mishandling an investigation into Nassar’s misconduct. President Biden announced that the U.S. will share its nuclear-powered submarine technology with Australia. NPR breaks down the thinking behind this rare move. Even though casts of TV shows have become more diverse, the writers rooms behind them still don’t reflect what America looks like. The Atlantic describes how Black writers are often pressured to make Blackness palatable to white audiences at great personal cost. Some of the oldest-known painted pottery on Earth may have been used for beer. Ars Technica looks into a new analysis of 9,000-year-old Chinese vessels that indicate funerals back then were pretty boozy events.

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