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U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene announces her resignation from her position on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
MAGA favorite Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign after split with Trump
Her exit marks a stunning turn of events that few would have imagined months ago.
WORLD / Politics
Trump officials’ meeting with Russian envoy spurs questions about latest Ukraine plan
The meeting took place in Miami at the end of October and included special envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Kirill Dmitriev.
WORLD / Politics
Trump lavishes praise on New York's mayor-elect Mamdani at warm White House meeting
The opposites have clashed over everything from immigration to economic policy. But it was clear the two forged a rapport in their first encounter.
U.S. President Donald Trump said a group of Democratic lawmakers who called on troops to disobey his orders should be put on trial — and even suggested they should face the death penalty.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 21, 2025
Trump calls for sedition trial after Democrats urged troops to disobey orders
By Skylar Woodhouse
His suggestion that the lawmakers be put to death drew even more attention to a video telling the intelligence community and military members to disobey unlawful orders.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's rift with U.S. President Donald Trump has some supporters concerned about the future of the MAGA movement.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 21, 2025
Trump’s break with Marjorie Taylor Greene jolts MAGA heartland
By Nathan Layne and Jayla Whitfield-Anderson
The dispute with one of his most fervent supporters has fueled concerns that Trump’s MAGA base could fracture ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
Military police patrol a shopping street in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on Oct. 29
WORLD / Politics
Nov 21, 2025
Trump use of troops in Washington likely illegal, judge says
By Zoe Tillman
A federal judge’s ruling on Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in Washington is the latest setback to the president’s military mobilizations in Democrat-led cities.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's crown prince, during the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington on Wednesday
WORLD / Politics
Nov 20, 2025
Behind Trump defense of Saudi crown prince, a deeper U.S. shift on human rights
By Matt Spetalnick, Patricia Zengerle and Simon Lewis
Trump's remarks threw into stark relief just how far his administration has shifted away from the traditional U.S. support for human rights globally.
Annie Farmer, victim of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, speaks from the podium during a candlelight vigil to honor survivors of his crimes in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 20, 2025
Trump signs Epstein files bill after fight that split Republicans
By Hadriana Lowenkron
Trump approved a measure he had spent months trying to block in a fight that inflamed tensions in his own party and threatened to undermine his agenda.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman walks beside U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson ahead of a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 20, 2025
Saudi crown prince hosted at friendlier U.S. Congress
By Patricia Zengerle and Simon Lewis
The second day meeting aimed to tout stronger-than-ever economic and security ties while brushing off scrutiny of the prince's human rights record.
Survivors Lisa Phillips, Jess Michaels, and Annie Farmer react as Sky Roberts, brother of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's late victim Virginia Giuffre, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 20, 2025
Trump's White House tried to slow-walk a vote on the Epstein files. It failed.
By Nandita Bose
Contrary to President Donald Trump's stance in public, the White House was quietly lobbying senators to delay a vote on releasing the files.

Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.
Two men suspected of smuggling 1 ton of gold into Japan from South Korea
U.K. gold bullion bars and coins are displayed at Baird & Co. in Hatton Garden in London.
Takaichi rejects China's demand to retract Taiwan remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has rejected China's demands for her to retract her comments on Taiwan, saying Tokyo's stance on a major regional security crisis remains unchanged.
Japan set to lean on U.S. allies for support if China escalates
U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo, on Oct. 28.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Juzo Itami’s “Tampopo” was released Nov. 23, 1985, and though it wasn’t a hit at the time, it has gained a cult following in the years since.
Eat, slurp, love: 'Tampopo' turns 40
By Weiwen Lin

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