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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent decades promoting vaccine misinformation, including the widely debunked claim that the MMR shot causes autism.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 19, 2025

RFK Jr. panelists make initial changes to childhood vaccine schedule

The vote against the MMRV shot comes as public health experts fear more changes that flout prevailing medical advice are in the pipeline.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2025

Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in likely blow to tech

Trump's threat to crack down on H-1B visas has become a major flash point with the tech industry, which contributed millions of dollars to his presidential campaign.
Workers operate heavy machinery to stabilize Wamberal Beach as a low-pressure cyclone lashes Australia's Central Coast, forcing residents to evacuate beachfront homes amid growing erosion fears, in July.
ENVIRONMENT
Sep 20, 2025

International treaty protecting world's oceans to take effect

The move by Morocco and Sierra Leone to join the U.N. treaty on the high seas clinched the threshold needed to enact it as international law.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with European leaders at the White House in Washington on Aug. 18.
WORLD
Sep 20, 2025

After diplomatic blitz on Ukraine and Gaza, Trump moves to passenger seat

In recent weeks, Trump has allowed and in some cases pressed allies to take the lead, with only distant promises of U.S. help.
The Pentagon is mandating that journalists agree to release only pre-approved information about the military or lose their credentials to cover the Pentagon.
WORLD
Sep 21, 2025

Pentagon limits journalists’ access to military information

The new rule — part of an updated press credentialing process presented to news organizations this week — came in a memo by Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at the White House on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 21, 2025

Trump shapes immigration gilded age with $100,000 H-1B fee

The U.S. president also unveiled a "Gold Card” visa program — where for the price of $1 million, individuals could get U.S. residency.
Gold medalist Beatrice Chebet (left) celebrates with Kenyan compatriot Faith Kipyegon after the women's 5000-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 21, 2025

Chebet beats Kipyegon in stunning sprint finish to win 5,000-meter showdown

The world record-holder's victory completed her set of global distance titles and denied 1,500-meter champion Kipyegon a double of her own in Tokyo.
Images of Palestinian (left) and Israeli (right) flags projected onto the Eiffel Tower on the eve of France's planned recognition of the State of Palestine, in Paris, on Sunday. That same day, Britain, Australia, Canada and Portugal recognized a Palestinian state.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

Western nations line up to recognize Palestinian state, infuriating Israel

Britain's decision to recognize a Palestinian state carried particular symbolism given its major role in Israel's creation as a modern nation in the aftermath of World War II.
Demonstrators protest against a constitutional amendment requiring criminal charges against lawmakers to first get congressional authorization, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

Brazilians protest efforts to shield Bolsonaro and lawmakers from courts

The protest follows the ex-president's conviction this month for a coup plot following his 2022 election defeat.
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (right) meets with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Riyadh on Sept. 17. The two leaders signed a surprise mutual defense treaty.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

Pakistan extends 'nuclear umbrella' to Saudi Arabia

The two countries recently signed a surprise mutual defense treaty.
U.S. President Donald Trump with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk and the new CEO of Turning Point USA, onstage during the memorial for her late husband at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

At Charlie Kirk memorial, Trump rallies MAGA against political opponents

U.S. President Donald Trump's speech at the event was the most openly divisive, repeatedly attacking the "radical left" and leaning into campaign-style grievances.
Tylenol for sale at a pharmacy in New York on Sept. 5
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

Trump administration to link Tylenol to autism, report says

Officials plan to warn pregnant women against using the medication, one of the world’s most common, over-the-counter pain relievers, unless they have a fever.
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the country's Security Council at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2025

Putin offers Trump one-year extension of nuclear weapons treaty

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday offered to voluntarily maintain the treaty limits if U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to do the same.
U.S. President Donald Trump, in front of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delivers remarks linking autism to childhood vaccines and to the use of popular pain medication Tylenol for pregnant women and children — claims that are not backed by decades of science — at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2025

'I'm not a doctor': Trump's autism announcement gives COVID-19 flashbacks

The U.S. president's announcements linking a painkiller to autism ranged from unproven medical claims to self-proclaimed expertise.
Anti-vaccine activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on March 18, 2024. "Disinformation" has become such a contentious label in the United States that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2025

What do some researchers call disinformation? Anything but disinformation.

The label has become so contentious in the United States that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether.
A U.S. Secret Service agent near a security checkpoint outside the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday.
WORLD
Sep 23, 2025

Secret Service breaks up ‘imminent’ telecom threat in New York

Agents discovered more than 300 SIM card servers and 100,000 SIM cards at several locations within a 35-mile radius of New York City.
French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2025

U.S. allies embracing Palestinian statehood tests Trump's Israel policy

Some analysts see Trump's unwillingness to apply Washington's leverage with Israel as a realization that the conflict is much more complex and intractable than he has acknowledged.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Monday
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2025

Carney touts trade opportunities with China, aims to meet with Xi

U.S. protectionism under President Donald Trump has brought Canada’s need to diversify trading relationships into sharp focus.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 24, 2025

Trump switches gears on Ukraine war, but fears of disengagement rise

Ukraine and its supporters are concerned the U.S. president could be pivoting to distance himself from the war that he had vowed to end in days.
Hisao Ito, a former resident of Tinian in the Mariana Islands, points to himself in a family photo taken when he was a child.
JAPAN / History
Sep 24, 2025

World War II survivor bears witness to family tragedy in Tinian mass suicide

Eighty-one years after the mass suicide, the memory of his father killing two of his sisters remains lodged in the survivor's mind, yet he holds no grudge against his father.
A silicon wafer. Taipei for the first time has unilaterally imposed semiconductor export controls on a country.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 25, 2025

Taiwan weaponizes chip sector to deter China on world stage

Taipei’s chip curbs reflect its strategy to increasingly use economic and trade policy for diplomatic goals, according to a Taiwanese official.
Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz speaks after signing a contract for the delivery of mobile communication centers in Zegrze, Poland, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 25, 2025

Poland becomes top importer of Taiwanese drones, skirting China

From almost nothing in the previous years, Poland is now absorbing almost 60% of Taiwan’s drone exports, which expanded this year to about $32 million through August.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appears on a screen as he addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters in New York on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 26, 2025

Palestinian leader pledges to work with Trump and others on Gaza plan

The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly endorsed a declaration that aims to advance a two-state solution and end the Gaza war.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau at the Global Refugee Asylum System meeting in New York on Thursday. He urged countries to join a global campaign to roll back asylum protections.
WORLD
Sep 26, 2025

Trump administration urges other nations to join its push to restrict asylum rights

U.S. officials said that the existing global asylum system was being exploited by economic migrants and criminal groups seeking to profit from illegal immigration.
The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid that had been appropriated by Congress in a major test of President Donald Trump’s efforts to wrest the power of the purse from the legislature.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025

U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump withhold $4 billion in foreign aid

The case raises questions about how much authority the president has to rescind funds for programs that don't align with his policies.
Former Chile President Michelle Bachelet (center) attends an event by GWL Voices, an organization of female world leaders committed to building an international system of equality, in Madrid in January last year.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 27, 2025

Calls grow for first female U.N. chief in 80 years

The United Nations has never had a woman serve as secretary-general — a fact that some world leaders now view as a glaring symbol of gender inequality.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov listens a question during a news conference after addressing the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 28, 2025

Russia tells West: Any aggression will be met with 'decisive response'

As war rages in Ukraine, tensions have mounted along NATO's eastern flank.
Toyota Gazoo Racing's No. 8 car competes at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Sep 28, 2025

At 31, Ryo Hirakawa continues to chase F1 dream

The Formula One door may be slowly opening for the top endurance talent even at age 31.
While the World Endurance Championship is seeing increased popularity overseas, the same level of success has eluded organizers in Japan.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Sep 28, 2025

At Fuji Speedway, WEC rides motorsports momentum to 100th race

The milestone race comes amid a global motorsports boom fueled by Netflix’s “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” series and Brad Pitt’s “F1” Hollywood film.
Palestinians check the rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 28, 2025

Tanks thrust deeper into Gaza; medics say many injured trapped

The Israeli military launched its long-threatended ground offensive on Gaza City on Sept. 16 after weeks of intensifying strikes on the urban center.
Why I chose Japanese citizenship over permanent residency
Jon Heese (second left) takes part in a 2024 New Year's nihonshu barrel opening ceremony.
Tokyo ordered to pay damages to South Asian woman over police response
The Tokyo High Court held that, “even taking the woman’s consent into account” for sharing her personal information, the officers breached their duty of care and acted unlawfully.
Former PM Tomiichi Murayama dies at age 101
Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama speaks during an interview in Tokyo in March 2007.
Japan's fractured politics could ensnarl Takaichi's economic plans
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party, attends a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Oct. 4.
Tokyo homebuyers split on purchase plans as living costs soar, survey shows
A survey showed that some potential homebuyers in Tokyo are delaying purchases while others are wary of missing out on opportunities posed by rising home prices.
What does Jimbocho think of its unexpected ‘cool’ status?
Tokyo's Jimbocho neighborhood is a haven for book lovers, its rows of secondhand bookstores spilling over with printed materials.
What you need to see at this year's Tokyo film festival
Chloe Zhao’s "Hamnet"
New film explores how Japan and the U.S. found common ground through baseball
Masanori Murakami became the first MLB player from Japan when he made his debut with the Giants on Sept 1, 1964.
As they wrestle for power, Japan’s political parties must remember their base
Rengo's head Tomoko Yoshino speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 8.
Sumo is about to hit London and the West with a force previously unseen
Preparations advance on Monday for the Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

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