John Lewis An American Hero: John Lewis Dedicated His Life to Equality and Justice for All Civil rights icon John Lewis died last week after a battle with pancreatic cancer. The New York Times remembers his fight for equality. Updated on July 23, 2020 at 10:08 pm
delta variant So, Are People Just Gonna Pretend the Delta Variant Isn't a Thing? Florida recently recorded its highest one-day COVID-19 total since the start of the pandemic with 21,683 on a random weekend in July. In the words of baseball legend Yogi Berra, 'It’s like deja-vu all over again.'
Anthony Fauci Fauci Says COVID-Deniers Are Just Like Those Downplaying the Jan. 6 Capitol Riots Dr. Anthony Fauci has been at the forefront of medical research and public health for decades, but he says there is a new and growing phenomenon of people “who deny reality that’s looking them straight in the face.” And in an interview with LX News Now host Eric Alvarez, he compared those who want to deny the science of COVID-19...
Tokyo Discovering Tokyo (Finally) After Two Weeks of Quarantine Exploring Tokyo is even sweeter after two weeks of quarantine. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain, who is covering the Tokyo Olympics, shares what it’s like to experience the host city after two weeks of life in a bubble.
Anthony Fauci Not a ‘Flip-Flop': Fauci Says the Delta Variant Forced the CDC's Mask Shift The public may be tired of shifting guidance from the CDC about wearing face masks, but Dr. Anthony Fauci says the latest change wasn’t made arbitrarily. Rather, it was forced by the Delta variant. “It isn’t that they decided in a vacuum to flip-flop — the virus changed,” he explained in an interview with LX News Now host Eric Alvarez....
Technology Hey Tech Companies, Let Me Fix My Stuff Today’s tech often doesn’t last that long. And many consumers facing a big repair bill may decide it’s easier to just buy a new device. Companies like Apple have proprietary parts and have even paid a $113 million settlement after they were accused of reducing performance on iPhones without users’ knowledge. LX News host Nik Z explains the right-to-repair movement and...
Housing Cash Offers Are Upending the Housing Market Amid Low Supply Banks are swooping in with cash to buy homes as regular people wait for a mortgage approval. That’s leading to a spike in home prices after COVID reduced supplies for building materials, Karan Kaul of the Urban Institute explains.
simone biles Olympian Nadia Comaneci Knows Exactly How Dangerous Simone Biles' ‘Twisties' Can Be Retired Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci is a five-time Olympic gold medalist. And she knows exactly how dangerous it is to perform with the “twisties.” Comaneci weighs in on the pressure facing Simone Biles and why getting the twisties is like being “lost in space.”
COVID-19 What Do Tokyo Locals Really Think About the Olympics? We Asked Them In May 2021, a poll showed that 83% of Japanese residents were opposed to moving forward with the Tokyo Olympics. Now that the Games are underway and COVID-19 cases are rising, NBCLX storyteller Fernando Hurtado went to the famous Shibuya Crossing to find out what they think now.
mental health Even Winning the Gold is Not Worth the Sacrifice, Says Decorated Olympian Standing on a podium with a gold medal draped around her neck was monumental and historic, but “it didn’t equate to happiness, completion, or even joy,” says Dominique Dawes, a three-time Olympic gymnast who won gold in 1996. In a new docuseries “Golden: The Journey of USA’s Elite Gymnasts,” Dawes is exploring the hard work and sacrifice behind the quest...
gymnastics Gymnastics Scoring 101: All the Moves You Need to Know to Watch Team USA When Olympic gymnasts take to the mat, pommel horse or uneven bars, it can be hard to follow their superhuman spins, flips and tricks let alone figure out how the judges are scoring them. So Ashley Holt joined the talented children and coaches at American Sokol Fort Worth Gymnastics in Texas to help demonstrate the moves that the judges are...
