(TOKYO) — The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. Organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto said a day ahead of th…

(TOKYO) — The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. Organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto said a day ahead of th…

This is “long-haul” COVID-19. Even young, healthy people can become long-haulers (as many call themselves), left unable to work, lead a normal life or, some days, get out of bed. (TIME August 21, 2020) 「これが”長期にわたる”新型コロナだ。…

New cases of COVID-19 emerging from any of the Olympic visitors could not only disrupt the Games but also forever tarnish this year’s Olympics as an exercise in folly amid a global pandemic that has claimed the lives of 4 million people. “…

So, Do We Need Booster Shots Now? As you've probably seen by now, Pfizer—like Moderna before it—yesterday released "encouraging" data about the efficacy of booster shots. The company says administering a third dose of its vaccine six month…

Relatively high vaccination rates in the U.S. do offer some comfort to health officials battling the new variant. However, while nearly 70% of adult Americans have had at least one shot, that number is much smaller in some parts of the cou…

The pre-dawn surrender of Donald Trump’s longtime money man signaled a tightening grip on the former President’s businesses. Facing allegations that he dodged taxes on fringe benefits from the New York mogul, Allen Weisselberg planned to p…