The creative director of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo was fired on Thursday, one day before the event is set to take place. Kentaro Kobayashi, who had previously been a member…

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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…

But a growing number of Western nations, including the leaders of the G7, have questioned the thoroughness of the original report. United States President Joe Biden has ordered US intelligence agencies to take a new…

This latest scandal has seen former comedian Kobayashi strongly criticised for a sketch he performed 23 years ago, in which he and another comedian pretend to be children's entertainers. Mr Kobayashi then turns to his…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden offered an absolute guarantee Wednesday that people who get their COVID-19 vaccines are completely protected from infection, sickness and death from the coronavirus. The reality is not that cut…

NHL.com senior writer Dan Rosen provided a closer look and analysis for each player selected. The players were announced alphabetically by team and by division, starting with the Atlantic Division, followed by the Metropolitan, Central…