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American Scottie Scheffler celebrates after winning Olympic gold at Le Golf National in Guyancourt, France, on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Golf
Aug 5, 2024
American Scheffler basks in national pride after Olympic golf triumph
Great Britain's Tommy Fleetwood took silver while former Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama won bronze for Japan.
The United States' 64-year unbeaten run in the men's 4x100-meter medley ended on Sunday as China swept to a seismic win.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 5, 2024
U.S. swimming on top again, but alarm bells sounding with LA looming
From Michael Phelps to Johnny Weissmuller, the U.S. has rolled out Olympic champions like a gold medal assembly line. But that production slowed at the Paris Games.
The entrance gate of the SEG electronics market in Shenzhen, China, on June 27.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 5, 2024
With smugglers and front companies, China is skirting U.S. AI bans
The U.S. worries advanced semiconductors could help China develop superior weaponry, launch cyberattacks and make faster decisions on the battlefield.
Noah Lyles celebrates after winning gold in the men's 100-meter final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Athletics
Aug 5, 2024
Showman Noah Lyles wins 100-meter gold by five thousandths of a second
Lyles had believed he had left it too late to catch the powerful Kishane Thompson, but he was soon confirmed as the winner in a personal best of 9.79 seconds.
Simone Biles alongside teammate Sunisa Lee after they finished with gold and bronze, respectively, in the women's all-around competition at the Olympics.
OLYMPICS / Gymnastics
Aug 4, 2024
Simone Biles proves to be unifying figure for sports fans in Paris
Stars from other sports and rabid fans from the U.S. and other countries have turned out in droves to watch Biles, proving her position as a unifying figure.
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Russian nationals, including Artyom Dultsev, Anna Dultseva, convicted of spying in Slovenia, and their children at 
an airport in Moscow on Thursday following a prisoner exchange with Western countries.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2024
Russia’s prisoner trade says all you need to know about Putin
Among those released to Russia were people convicted by independent courts of cybercrimes, insider trading and breaking sanctions.
Fuka Nagano (left) and Hinata Miyazawa after Japan was eliminated from the Olympic soccer tournament by the U.S. on Saturday in Paris.
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2024
For Nadeshiko Japan, the quarterfinals prove to be a stumbling block — again
The team fell 1-0 to the U.S. after also losing in the last eight at the Tokyo Games in 2021 and at the Women’s World Cup in 2023.
South Korean Ambassador to Japan Yun Duk-min is interviewed in Tokyo on July 19.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 4, 2024
South Korea's outgoing envoy pushes for joint declaration on history recognition
Yun Duk-min reiterated that a declaration could be announced in 2025 to mark the 60th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral diplomatic ties.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden hold a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on July 25.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 4, 2024
Killing of Hamas leader fuels more tension between Biden and Netanyahu
The U.S. president has expressed concern that the assassination has thrown cease-fire talks into doubt, something the Israeli leader rejects.
Smoke and flames rise from Park Fire burning near Chico, California, on July 25.
WORLD
Aug 4, 2024
California wildfire now fourth-largest in state history
More than 6,000 firefighters in California's Central Valley continued to battle the largest blaze in the U.S. on Saturday.
American Katie Ledecky celebrates after winning the final of the women's 800-meter freestyle at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Aug 4, 2024
History-making Ledecky eyes Los Angeles after ninth Olympic gold
The 27-year-old superstar hit the wall in 8 minutes, 11.04 seconds, ahead of Australia's Ariarne Titmus (8:12.29) and fellow American Paige Madden (8:13.00).
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2024
U.S. military helicopter makes emergency landing in Kanagawa rice paddy
No one was injured in the landing, the local fire department said, and the cause was not immediately clear.
U.S. President Joe Biden hugs Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, as he and other prisoners freed from Russia arrive at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland late Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 3, 2024
Prisoner deals stoke fears of perverse ‘incentive’ to grab Americans
Hostile governments like Russia and Iran are often involved, and practical alternatives are hard to come by, experts say.
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in April 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 3, 2024
Alongside the Trump-Russia inquiry, a lesser-known look at Egyptian influence
The Justice Department investigated whether a Trump adviser was part of an Egyptian plan, never proven, to funnel $10 million to the 2016 Trump campaign.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is shown in this file photograph during his arrest on March 1, 2003.
WORLD
Aug 3, 2024
Pentagon chief revokes plea deals with three 9/11 suspects
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked plea deals agreed to in recent days with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two accomplices.
Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe delivers an opening statement at a joint hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Judiciary Committees on the assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, on July 30.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 3, 2024
U.S. Secret Service chief says local police warned of gunman at Trump shooting
Local authorities and Secret Service agents were using different communications channels, which prevented the warning from getting through.
Investors are grappling with the possibility that the Federal Reserve may need to loosen its tight grip on the economy much faster than anticipated to avoid a recession.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Aug 3, 2024
U.S. recession scare fuels searing rally in bonds and puts yield curve flip in view
Investors are grappling with the possibility the Federal Reserve may need to loosen its grip on the economy faster than anticipated to avoid a recession.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
WORLD
Aug 3, 2024
Pentagon deploying ships and fighters to boost Mideast presence
The moves come as Israel faces threats from Iran to avenge assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders.
U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, inside a defendants' cage in Moscow on April 23.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 2, 2024
Russia releases U.S. reporter in major swap for Kremlin agents
The swap included two dozen people, 16 going to the West and eight being returned to Russia.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government is working hard to enhance Japan's global and regional influence through strategic defense reforms and international partnerships.
EDITORIALS
Aug 2, 2024
Japan’s defense reforms and diplomacy boost regional security
Considerable progress was made this week in a series of meetings with Tokyo's counterparts in various endeavors, the heart of which is the Japan-U.S. alliance.

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