Naomi Osaka officially kicked off the Tokyo Games by lighting the Olympic cauldron, a time-honored tradition that takes place during the opening ceremony. The tennis champion, born to a Japanese mother and Haitian father, gave up her U.S. citizenship in 2019 to represent Japan at the Games.Acting as the Olympic cauldron lighter is a major honor for Osaka, who withdrew from the French Open in May to focus on her mental health. "Undoubtedly the greatest athletic achievement and honor I will ever h...

July's full moon, dubbed the Buck Moon, will light up the night sky on the evening of July 23. "During this period, a buck’s antlers are in full growth and are very impressive. This is the first full moon of the summer," Eva White, psychic and spiritualist of Psychics1on1, explains. The first of two Aquarius full moons in 2021, the cosmic event will allow us to charge and revitalize our spirits. However, some of us might experience a bump in the road due to high emotional intensity.Here, White...

Tommy Dorfman, the actor known for playing Ryan Shaver in 13 Reasons Why, has shared her identity as a transgender woman. In an interview for TIME magazine, Dorfman said that, for the past year, she has "been privately identifying and living as a woman -- a trans woman." Now, she is reintroducing herself to the public."I view today as a reintroduction to me as a woman, having made a transition medically," Dorfman told writer Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby. "Coming out is always vi...

Kentaro Kobayashi, the creative director of the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, was fired after footage of him making a joke about the Holocaust resurfaced. Kobayashi's remarks, which he made in 1998 as part of a comedy set, referenced "massacring Jews."In a statement, the Olympics organizing committee said Kobayashi "made a mockery of a painful historic fact in the past." The committee also apologized for "having caused troubles and concerns to many stakeholders, and residents of Tokyo and Jap...