Compared with other government anterooms in Moscow, the lobby of the three- story, neoclassical building just across from the Zoomagazin pet shop at 22 Kuznetsky Most Street exudes a civilized calm. Near the entrance a red-and- gold sign proclaims that the public is welcome 24 hours a day. Two guards politely answer questions, and visitors can leaf through the neatly arranged newspapers while relaxing on comfortable brown leather sofas. This paragon of bureaucratic efficiency is the reception center of the Committee for State Security, better known by its initials: KGB.

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After Team USA beat Japan, 90-75, in the women’s Olympic basketball final at the Saitama Super Arena north of Tokyo on Sunday afternoon, clinching a seventh straight Olympic gold medal for the U.S.—and a fifth gold medal for Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi, a new Olympic record for any basketball player—Bird ran over to the stands to kiss and hug her fiancée, U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe, who has one gold of her own (from the London Games).

The Florida teen who was accused of bullying a 12-year-old classmate who later committed suicide said Friday that she’s learned some lessons from the experience after charges against her were dropped, but that she “didn’t really do anything wrong.” “I mean yes, there’s some things I could have changed, but I didn’t really do anything wrong,” Katelyn Roman, 13, said on CNN. “Words do hurt, and you should use them carefully and try not to hurt people’s feelings,” she added.

Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was indicted for negligent injury to a child after he whipped his 4-year-old son bloody with a slim tree branch in September as punishment for pushing one of his siblings. The football player, and many others, seemed surprised that police got involved in what seemed to him a family matter. “I am someone that disciplined his child and did not intend to cause him any injury,” Peterson said in a statement afterwards.