Trevor Bauer, a pricey free agent pitcher for the L.A. Dodgers and winner of the 2020 NL Cy Young Award, was suspended several weeks ago following allegations that he had sexually abused a woman in the spring of 2021. According to reports, Bauer had choked her almost to a point of losing consciousness and had also beaten and raped her.  Bauer, through his legal team, has denied any wrongdoing, claiming the encounters were consensual.

Tonight on FISM News: Former President Trump announced a class action lawsuit against social media companies over unfair censorship, Haiti reels from the assassination of its President and the hunt for his killers is underway, and Japan declares a state of emergency which led to banning spectators from the Olympics.

The controversy surrounding the 2021 Tokyo Olympics due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan continues as the country has declared another state of emergency and banned spectators from the Olympics. Japan recently just lifted a state of emergency due to the pandemic as the number of new COVID-19 cases had significantly dropped. This brought hope that the delayed 2021 Olympics would have a relatively normal festivities, but due to a significant rise in new COVID-19 cases Japan was forced to re-instate the state of emergency as well as ban spectators.