No one has more riding on Sprint Corp.'s $26.5 billion sale to T-Mobile US Inc. than SoftBank Group and its founder, Masayoshi Son. Sprint has been going broke for more than a decade, and the wireless carrier's executives have told regulators the company faces "serious ...

Talks between the U.S. and China to resolve their yearlong trade standoff appeared to be on life support Monday, with Beijing struggling to respond to a pair of tweets by President Donald Trump that threaten an escalation of tariffs by the end of the ...

Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah on Sunday extended a moratorium on the death penalty to incoming legislation prohibiting gay sex, seeking to temper a global backlash led by celebrities such as George Clooney and Elton John. The small Southeast Asian country sparked an outcry when it ...

Donald Trump looked to forestall perhaps the most keenly awaited event in Washington in decades — a congressional hearing with special counsel Robert Mueller — saying "Bob Mueller should not testify. No redos for the Dems!" The president's comment, in a pair of Twitter postings ...

Andrew Albers allowed nine runs in 1⅔ innings on Monday as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks cranked out a 9-6 win over the Orix Buffaloes. Albers (1-2) gave up 10 hits and three home runs at Yafuoku Dome before he was yanked in the second. Alfredo Despaigne, ...

In the history of Japanese top-flight men's hoop circuits, there have been certain teams who got extra motivation from playing against each other. That seems to currently be the case for the Chiba Jets Funabashi and Tochigi Brex. There may not be any hatred or ill ...

Japan teammates Yuto Nagatomo and Shinji Kagawa faced off Sunday in one of Turkish soccer's biggest grudge matches, with Nagatomo's Galatasaray emerging as a 2-0 winner over Kagawa's Besiktas in the Istanbul derby. The win at Turk Telekom Arena took Galatasaray to the top of ...

Kenta Maeda exited with his team trailing on Sunday but avoided taking a loss despite the Los Angeles Dodgers suffering an 8-5 walk-off defeat against the San Diego Padres. Maeda yielded four runs on three walks and three hits, including an early home run to ...

Distance runner Yuki Kawauchi and his fiancee Yuko Mizuguchi both prevailed at the Vancouver Marathon on Sunday. Kawauchi won the men's race in 2 hours, 15 minutes and 1 second, while his soon-to-be wife topped the women's field with a time of 2:41.28. The pair fell ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday blasted the result of the Kentucky Derby horse race, saying the controversial disqualification of first-finisher Maximum Security could only happen in "these days of political correctness." "The Kentuky (sic) Derby decision was not a good one. It was a ...