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A mob of supporters of President Donald Trump outside the Capitol building in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. Former President Donald Trump has recently taken to publicly celebrating the riot and those who took part in it, putting a revisionist history of the attack at the heart of his campaign.
WORLD
Apr 14, 2024
Inside Donald Trump’s embrace of the Jan. 6 rioters
The former president initially disavowed the attack on the Capitol, but he is now making it a centerpiece of his general election campaign.
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order rolling back regulations from the 2010 Dodd-Frank law on Wall Street reform at the White House in Washington in February 2017.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Apr 13, 2024
If Trump wins, he plans to free Wall Street from 'burdensome regulations'
If elected, Trump would likely cut back protections for small-scale investors and borrowers, and allow companies to raise money with less scrutiny.
U.S. President Joe Biden during a joint news conference with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (not pictured) in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Apr 13, 2024
It's inflation, stupid: Biden faces renewed election threat
The cost of living is rising more quickly again, just when he thought he had put the issue behind him to get a clear run at November's vote.
U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson steel mill in Braddock, Pennsylvania
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 11, 2024
How the U.S. Steel takeover became about Biden and swing states
The turmoil threatens to strain U.S. relations with Japan while underscoring how the politics of winning swing-state voters influences business.
Pro-life demonstrators listen to U.S. President Donald Trump as he speaks at the 47th annual "March for Life" in Washington on January 24, 2020.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 10, 2024
Trump making a risky bet on abortion as he seeks re-election
Trump has taken credit for the surprise overturning of the federal right to abortion in 2022.
U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron
WORLD / Politics
Apr 10, 2024
Cameron lobbies old adversary Trump to unlock Ukraine aid
Despite sparring in the past, the U.K.'s foreign secretary sees the former U.S. president as key to giving Ukraine more funding.
U.S. independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign event in Oakland, California, on March 26.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Apr 7, 2024
'Real threat': U.S. presidential long-shot RFK Jr alarms Democrats
The environmental lawyer and conspiracy theorist has double-digit support and polling suggests he's hurting Biden more than Trump.
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 5, 2024
Judges reject calls to dismiss Trump charges over 2020 vote, secret papers
The former U.S. president has been criminally charged in four cases as he challenges Democratic President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 election.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 3, 2024
In campaign speech, Trump calls illegal immigrants 'animals'
The Republican presidential candidate warned that violence and chaos would consume America if he did not win the Nov. 5 election.
The National Museum of China following the closing of the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress in Beijing on March 11
WORLD / Politics
Apr 3, 2024
China’s advancing efforts to influence the U.S. election raise alarms
The accounts signal a potential shift in how Beijing aims to influence American politics, with more of a willingness to target specific candidates.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump leaves the court after a pre-trial hearing in a hush money case in New York on March 25. As Trump faces a slew of trials, his opponents should take the comparison to Hitler's court room dramas seriously.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 3, 2024
The Hitler trial’s lessons in the Trump era
As former U.S. President Donald Trump faces a slew of trials, his opponents should take the comparison to Hitler's court room dramas seriously.
NATO headquarters in Brussels. In attacking the transatlantic alliance, Trump fails to see that the grouping is key to safeguarding the United States' own interests.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 3, 2024
NATO is not a hegemonic burden
Trump is wrong in wrangling over NATO. Withdrawing from the alliance would hurt U.S. interests — without really reducing its military spending.
Baltimore workers and relatives attend a news conference to honor families and victims of last week's collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was struck by the container ship Dali, in Baltimore, Maryland, on Friday. The death of six Latino workers who were fixing potholes when a Baltimore bridge collapsed highlights the crucial role immigrants play in keeping America running, say advocates.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Mar 31, 2024
Baltimore bridge highlights role of migrants in U.S. workforce
The tragedy comes as many Latinos feel under assault as the U.S. prepares for a bitter presidential election in November.
For some fundamentalist Christians, Donald Trump is seen as divine instrument even though his behavior seems at odds with their religious values.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2024
What fundamentalist Christians see in Trump
Navigating the paradox that is the intersection of fundamentalism and politics in America.
Jim Rauh, founder of Families Against Fentanyl, holds a photograph of his son Thomas in Akron, Ohio, on March 4. How Trump and Biden address a lethal chapter of the U.S. drug-overdose epidemic will be pivotal in swing states that are likely to decide the election.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 27, 2024
270,000 overdose deaths thrust fentanyl into heart of U.S. presidential race
More than 4 in 10 Americans personally know someone who has died from a drug overdose.
Sunao Takao (center) interprets as then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump talk prior to a working lunch at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 26, 2024
Japan tees up Abe's ex-interpreter to help chart course with Trump
Japanese officials are preparing to deploy the Harvard-educated bureaucrat to bolster engagement with the Republican candidate's campaign.
After Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination last week, the buzzword underwent an evolution as he outpaces incumbent President Joe Biden in a number of major polls.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 21, 2024
'What if Trump?' Moshitora reenters Japanese lexicon
The compact Japanese buzzword has resurfaced in local media reports as the ex-president rises through a number of polls.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to vote in Florida's primary election at a polling station at the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 20, 2024
Trump again conditions U.S. help to NATO allies on paying their 'fair share'
The Republican presidential candidate reiterated his stance, saying that his harsh words are "a form of negotiation."
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Vandalia, Ohio, earlier this month.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2024
The zombification of American politics
Turning a party into an autocracy is a logical first step toward turning the country into one.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak to the press at Manhattan Criminal Court after a hearing in his case of paying hush money to cover up extramarital affairs, in New York City on Feb. 15.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 16, 2024
Trump hush-money trial in New York delayed until at least April
Pushing back the start date in New York is good news for Trump, who is campaigning for a return to the White House.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami
A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
Shohei Ohtani's example could change Japan's views on paternity leave
Shohei Ohtani and Mamiko Tanaka announced the birth of their first child on April 19.
Nearly half of workers in Japan engage in ‘quiet quitting’
"Quiet quitting" is most common among the younger generation, with 46.7% of respondents to a survey in their 20s identifying with the practice, reflecting a less-motivated workforce more focused on work-life balance.
Delta routes new Airbus plane to Tokyo to sidestep Trump tariffs
Delta Air Lines signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on April 9. The airline is flying a new Airbus SE plane through Japan to skirt U.S. import tariffs.
Underground water leak floods Kyoto streets
A massive underground water leak early Wednesday flooded the streets near an intersection on National Route 1 in Shimogyo Ward in the city of Kyoto.
CDP submits bill proposal on separate surnames, but challenges remain
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers speak to reporters in parliament on Wednesday after submitting a bill in the Lower House to allow married couples to retain different surnames.
Puzzling decisions and opaque rankings are all part of sumo's charm
Chiyoshoma (right) battles Churanoumi during the New Year Basho in Tokyo in January. The Mongolian's drop down the sumo rankings ahead of the May tournament was one of the biggest surprises of the latest banzuke.
North Korea's Kim sets sights on nuclear-armed navy
An unidentified weapons system is fired from the deck of North Korea's latest destroyer, the Choe Hyon, during two days of tests on Monday and Tuesday in this undated photo released Wednesday.
Single, or not? Japanese dating app launches relationship verification system
Tapple, one of Japan's most popular dating apps, has launched the nation's first feature to verify a user's single status via their My Number card.
Counting the reasons why there are so few American cars in Japan
Tesla's store in Tokyo's Shibuya district. While sales of American cars in Japan appear to be shrinking, Tesla's presence in the country is growing.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
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