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U.S. President Donald Trump, who has long jostled with the press and questioned the editorial rules that prohibit interference in government-funded media, issued an executive order on March 14 to eliminate Voice of America and other U.S.-funded media.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
U.S. judge orders preliminary VOA funding restoration in blow to Trump
It remains to be seen if the order is enough to put the outlets back on air.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Does Trump's Venezuela deportation notice comply with Supreme Court ruling?
A judge has expressed skepticism that the notice informs Venezuelan migrants of their right to legally challenge their removals.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
U.S. Supreme Court orders temporary halt to deportations of Venezuelan migrants
The cases raise questions about the Trump administration's adherence to limits set by the Supreme Court, and risks a full-blown constitutional crisis.
An anti-U.S. mural on a building in Tehran earlier this month
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 18, 2025
With his promises of peace unmet in Gaza and Ukraine, Trump may find Iran just as tough
By Matt Spetalnick and Steve Holland
Adding to regional tensions is Trump's repeated threat to bomb Iran's nuclear sites if a deal cannot be reached.
Luigi Mangione, who is charged in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arrives for his arraignment at the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Dec. 23.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 18, 2025
Luigi Mangione faces federal charges in health executive’s killing
Mangione has separately been charged by New York state prosecutors with Brian Thompson’s murder and awaits trial.
Michael McMahon, a retired New York City police sergeant working as a private investigator, arrives for the start of his trial at the Brooklyn federal court in New York on May 31, 2023. McMahon was sentenced to 1½ years in prison on Wednesday for acting as an illegal Chinese agent.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 17, 2025
Ex-New York cop sentenced to 1½ years' jail for acting as Chinese agent
By Luc Cohen
A jury found Michael McMahon guilty of interstate stalking and of acting as an agent of China without notifying the U.S. attorney general.
Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson, appears in Manhattan Supreme Court on New York state murder and terrorism charges in New York City on Feb. 21.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 12, 2025
Mangione lawyers ask judge to prevent U.S. prosecutors from seeking death penalty
Brian Thompson, the deceased CEO of UnitedHealth Group's insurance division, was shot dead on Dec. 4 outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel.
Muslim protestors pray outside the main campus of Columbia University during a demonstration to denounce the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist who helped lead protests against Israel at the university, in New York on March 14.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 12, 2025
U.S. judge rules Palestinian Columbia student can be deported
The judge's decision came after a combative 90-minute hearing held in a court located inside a jail complex for immigrants.
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Apr 10, 2025
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
By Sofia Christensen, Juliette Jabkhiro and Layli Foroudi
Hundreds of foreign nationals previously protected because they grew up in France now face expulsion under legislation introduced last year.
Associated Press photographer Alex Brandon is denied access to the White House "press pool" as journalists move to U.S. President Donald Trump's motorcade at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 9, 2025
Judge lifts Trump White House restrictions on AP while lawsuit proceeds
The White House imposed restrictions on the Associated Press over the news agency’s decision to continue to refer to the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage.

Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Japan wants to 'separate' tariff and security issues. That may be tough.
Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, poses with a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House in Washington on April 16.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Naked man’s rampage in Saitama linked to one fatality and 10 injured
Police believe Daisuke Nishimura may have been involved in roughly 20 incidents in the 90 minutes leading up to his arrest, including a fatal hit-and-run and multiple assaults.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.
Cases of epidural use in labor rise in Japan alongside concerns
Of the 721,000 childbirths reported in 2024 in Japan, 13.8% involved the use of an epidural, according to the Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
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