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MSNBC Medical Contributor Dr. Uché Blackstock says vaccine hesitancy could disappear, if the FDA gives the vaccine full authorization instead of its current emergency status. Following that move, Blackstock proposes governments and employers make it less convenient for people to stay unvaccinated – an approach already playing out for hospital employees.

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...

“If we were all vaccinated it would be hard to spread COVID. But so many of us are not.” Dr. Lynn Goldman from George Washington University talks about low vaccination rates – they’re like kindling on a fire. That is contributing to a rise in cases of COVID and the Delta variant, and the return of mask mandates in some...

U.S. gymnasts are still winning medals without the marquee name Simone Biles. NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain, who is covering the Olympic Games from Tokyo, talks about the USA gymnastics team and how athletes are winning medals while supporting and relating to the pressure Biles said she is feeling.

In “ASMR the Interview,” gymnastic silver medalists Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum share their favorite hype songs and their thoughts on sushi. And Chiles even gives us her ASMR rendition of Normani’s “Motivation.”

Coastal erosion and sea level rise are collapsing cliffs on the California coast and threatening multimillion dollar homes and critical infrastructure. And that is creating a chain of events that reaches far inland — affecting housing markets in places like Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain explains how coastal erosion affects all of us — and why it’s a...

The Olympics, for non-sports fans like myself, is often one of the few times the adrenaline, competition and patriotic pride of these games can catch our undivided attention. And it seems there might be a reason for this sudden onset of athletic fandom.

“We just see an athlete and presume we know everything about them, but there’s so much more going on for all of these people. They live multidimensional, multifaceted lives like we all do,” says sports psychologist Dr. Mark Aoyagi. After withdrawing from events at the Tokyo Olympics, gymnast Simone Biles is reminding us we can be physically healthy and have...

“They got within inches of that chamber. If they got that ballot box from the states, think what they could have done to the country.” NBC News terrorism contributor and former ATF Special Agent in Charge Jim Cavanaugh talks about the Jan. 6 hearings and proper terminology when referring to people who stormed the Capitol that day.

Officer Harry Dunn, who is Black, spoke at a House Select Committee hearing about the racism he faced from rioters while standing guard in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6.

Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn appeared before the House Select Committee speaking about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Dunn said he had never been called a racial slur in uniform before that day.

Many companies suspended political donations after the Jan. 6 riots, but have now resumed donating to Republicans who objected to election certification.

There’s a shrimp filet sandwich, the Ebi Filet-O, only available at Japanese McDonald’s restaurants. Another chain, KFC, has a big presence in the country too…but Japanese dishes like ramen and sushi have been a big draw for journalists covering the Tokyo Olympics. NBCLX Storyteller Fernando Hurtado shows you the food of Japan that was available in quarantine, and his first...

Tokyo first hosted the Olympics in 1964, still in the shadow of World World II and the fallout from the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, as Tokyo hosts its second Games, there are echoes of those global tragedies — both in the coronavirus pandemic and the 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain reports from Tokyo...

After U.S. gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from a team competition, fans are expressing thanks for the spectacular performances they got to witness over the years. And it started a larger conversation about what we expect of athletes.

A majority of Americans plan to watch the Olympics this year and young people are interested too. New events like skateboarding are a big draw, but the most recognizable face was Simone Biles by far. NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky talks about a recent poll on Olympics viewership.

It wasn’t too long ago that skateboarding was often framed as dangerous, or even criminal, to the point that “Skateboarding Is Not a Crime” appeared on T-shirts and stickers. But it seems like the world might finally be coming around: the Tokyo Olympics is the first-ever Olympic Games with skateboarding events, which have lit up the skating world with...

If you spend any time in Tokyo, you are likely to find yourself hunting for something that’s easily found on almost every street corner in a U.S. city — a trash can. As NBCLX storyteller Fernando Hurtado discovered, there are several very good reasons why garbage cans remain scarce in Japan — from terrorism threats to recycling challenges.

We love Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir for being big and bold. But the NBC Sports commentators and former Olympians agreed to get really, really quiet for their first ASMR interview with NBCLX storyteller Fernando Hurtado. (And Johnny called it the strangest moment of their lives.)

“Insecure” actress Issa Rae hilariously revealed that she married her finance Louis Diame over the weekend in the South of France.