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Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with senior adviser Susie Wiles as he speaks, following early results from the 2024 U.S. presidential election in Palm Beach County Convention Center, in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 6.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 12, 2024
As Donald Trump staffs up for second term, only MAGA loyalists need apply
As advisers and allies of Republican President-elect Donald Trump search for personnel to staff his coming administration, one quality is absolutely paramount: unquestioning loyalty.
An Athena Bitcoin ATM in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday. Crypto advocates are taking a victory lap as the vast amounts of money they poured into the U.S. elections yielded huge dividends, from Donald Trump's reelection to downballot wins for politicians friendly to the sector.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 11, 2024
Bitcoin breaks $81,000 as token becomes totem for new Trump era
Trump's decisive victory in the presidential election has prompted celebratory chest-thumping from the digital-asset industry.
Elon Musk during a campaign event at Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 27
WORLD / Politics
Nov 10, 2024
Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters envision ascendant startups and Vance 2028
The surge of GOP support and contributions set records in the largely left-leaning tech industry, splintering once-clubby relationships.
Republican Vice President-elect JD Vance (left) and President-elect Donald Trump speak during an election night event in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 7, 2024
JD Vance once compared Trump to Hitler. Now, he's his vice president-elect.
Trump and many of his allies see Vance's transformation as genuine, but detractors see his shift in views as a ploy to ascend the ranks of Republican politics.
Donald Trump looks on as he speaks at a campaign rally in East Del Valle, Austin, Texas on Oct. 25
WORLD / Politics
Nov 7, 2024
Who has President-elect Donald Trump threatened to prosecute?
Trump has vowed to investigate or prosecute political rivals, election workers and left-wing Americans if he becomes president again.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris concluded their presidential campaigns on Monday with closing arguments that mirrored, in tone and in substance, the competing visions they have offered a deeply divided nation.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 5, 2024
Harris and Trump conclude historic campaign with dueling rallies
Their closing arguments mirrored, in tone and in substance, the competing visions they have offered a deeply divided nation.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Aug. 20 and former U.S. President Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Aug. 15
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2024
Harris makes last-minute appeals while Trump embraces violent rhetoric
Opinion polls show Donald Trump and Kamala Harris locked in a tight presidential race.
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a live interview with U.S. commentator Tucker Carlson in the finale of the Tucker Carlson Live Tour at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2024
Election falsehoods take off on Youtube as it looks the other way
The largest video platform has become a home for election conspiracy theories, half-truths and lies, which provide it with revenue.
A woman takes photos of a gate in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Monday. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, at a Donald Trump event on Sunday, called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage."
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2024
Trump-allied comedian blasted for calling Puerto Rico 'garbage'
Tony Hinchcliffe, who also employed racist tropes about Black Americans and Jews at a Trump event on Sunday, played down the offensive nature of his comments.
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a campaign rally at the Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 28, 2024
Trump headlines New York rally after vulgar, racist remarks from allies
The Republican presidential candidate hoped to use the event at the iconic Madison Square Garden to deliver his closing argument against Democratic rival Kamala Harris.
Former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 27, 2024
Michelle Obama makes a searing appeal to men: ‘Take our lives seriously’
Michelle Obama told her audience that Trump would further damage women’s health care, while Harris has vowed to enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade in federal law.
Former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance talk at the 9/11 Memorial in New York on Sept. 11.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 26, 2024
Chinese hackers said to have targeted phones used by Trump and Vance
The targeting of the Republican presidential ticket’s phones is part of what appears to be an effort to gather information about American leaders.
People prepare to vote at a polling station as Georgians turned out, a day after the battleground state opened early voting, in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 17, 2024
Georgia judge overturns changes to election rules by pro-Trump Republicans
The state is one of seven set to be closely contested and expected to determine the winner of the Nov. 5 presidential race.
Republican U.S. vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance speaks at Tucson Speedway in Tucson, Arizona, on Oct. 9
WORLD / Politics
Oct 17, 2024
JD Vance says Trump did not lose the 2020 U.S. election
In Pennsylvania, Vance said he was not espousing "some crazy conspiracy theory” in arguing Trump won.
In his July Republican Party acceptance speech, Donald Trump vowed to launch the largest deportation operation in U.S. history.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 16, 2024
Who wants to buy the miracle tonic of mass deportation?
Donald Trump's mass deportation plan could result in thousands of deaths, tear families apart, and devastate communities.
Outrageous stories about Kamala Harris and Donald Trump online were widely mistaken as real across social media, underscoring how content from satirical websites is being repurposed to fuel political misinformation and sow confusion ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 15, 2024
'Stolen satire' feeds U.S. election misinformation
False claims are being widely mistaken as real across social media, underscoring how content from satirical websites is being repurposed to fuel political misinformation.
U.S. officials are warning that foreign adversaries are aiming to sow doubt in the Nov. 5 election results to stoke division and undermine trust.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 8, 2024
U.S. expecting foreign actors to question validity of election
Countries would seek to "launder their narratives" through witting and unwitting American voices and stoke divisions in society.
Elon Musk during the final match of the U.S. Open in New York on Sept. 8
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 3, 2024
Musk funded right-wing nonprofit for years before endorsing Trump, sources say
Revenues at Building America's Future climbed from some $11 million in 2021 to about $53 million in 2022, the year two people said Musk had already started his donations.
Pro-Donald Trump protesters storm the U.S. Capitol amid clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 3, 2024
Trump said ‘so what’ when told of Pence's peril on Jan. 6, U.S. prosecutors say
The government’s brief starts the next round of legal wrangling over whether the latest indictment can proceed.
Combination image of Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Senator JD Vance attending a debate with Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in New York on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 2, 2024
Walz and Vance's 'Midwestern nice' debate gives U.S. voters a break
This year's presidential cycle has been dogged by political division and intense rhetoric
Success of Chinese-made fighter jets against India raises alarm in Asia
Chinese J-10 fighter jets from the People's Liberation Army Air Force August 1st Aerobatics Team perform during a media demonstration at the Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, in November 2015.
Japan to recognize Taiwan as place of origin in family registration system
Masataka Yuhara, secretary-general of the Friends of Lee Teng Hui Association in Japan, which has been calling for "Taiwan" to be permitted as a place of origin in family registers.
Japanese retailers turn to California rice for cheaper alternative
U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass eats California rice at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday along with Mitsuko Tsuchiya, vice president of retailer Aeon.
Japanese automakers looking at a ¥1 trillion hit from Trump tariffs 
Cars on display at Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama on Tuesday. The automaker posted a massive annual net loss and confirmed that it plans to cut thousands of jobs worldwide.
Two crew feared dead after ASDF training jet crashes in Aichi
Self-Defense Forces personnel collect apparent parts of an Air Self-Defense Force T-4 training jet from a reservoir in Inuyama, Aichi Prefeture, on Thursday. The jet crashed shortly after takeoff a day earlier.
Historian Rob Fitts discovers earliest ever reference to baseball in Japan
Japan's Shohei Ohtani carries the Japanese flag onto the field before the start of the World Baseball Classic final against the United States in Miami on March 21, 2023.
Harmfully hot days for pregnant women in Japan nearly doubled over past five years
New research by a U.S. climate scientists’ group reveals that extreme heat has increased the risks of preterm births and other pregnancy complications in Japan, nearly doubling the number of days that are harmfully hot for pregnant women over the past five years.
Sumo title contenders already emerging in early stages of Tokyo meet
Onosato (left) battles Abi on Day 3 of the Summer Basho in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japanese automakers looking at a ¥1 trillion hit from Trump tariffs 
Cars on display at Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama on Tuesday. The automaker posted a massive annual net loss and confirmed that it plans to cut thousands of jobs worldwide.
Tokyo Stock Exchange wants stocks to be affordable for the average investor
The Tokyo Stock Exchange building in Nihonbashi. The exchange wants companies to lower the entry cost of investing in their shares.

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