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DONALD TRUMP

A Boston police officer watches as protesters kneel in the street during a rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Boston in June 2020.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
FBI fires agents pictured kneeling during racial justice protest in 2020
Sources said the agents in question were trying to ease tensions between protesters and law enforcement.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
U.S. to revoke Colombian president's visa over 'incendiary actions'
Colombian President Gustavo Petro urged U.S. soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump's orders and to obey "the orders of humanity" instead.
A parody Mount Rushmore sculpture depicts the faces of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (second from right) and U.S. President Donald Trump (right), as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a shopping mall in Bangkok on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
Seoul says it can’t rule out Kim-Trump meeting during APEC summit
A report quoting a South Korean official appeared to reverse Seoul’s earlier position that North Korea’s participation in the summit was unlikely.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters while leaving the White House on Friday morning. Trump on Friday cheered the indictment of James Comey, the former FBI director and predicted more indictments were on the way, even as he denied that he had a list of perceived enemies he wanted to see prosecuted.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 27, 2025
Comey indictment escalates Trump's campaign to chill opposition
Experts say the U.S. criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey shatters norms of independence in federal investigations and will face significant hurdles in court.
President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold his planned rollback of automatic birthright citizenship, a move that will test a Trump executive order that lower courts have uniformly concluded runs afoul of the Constitution, federal immigration law and Supreme Court precedent.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to curb birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the legality of his bid to limit birthright citizenship in the United States, teeing up a major test of one of his most contentious policies that could alter how the U.S. Constitution has long been understood on the...
Fishermen sail on a boat near Caraballeda, in Venezuela's La Guaira state, on Wednesday.
WORLD / FOCUS
Sep 27, 2025
Sitting ducks: Venezuelan fishermen wary of U.S. warships
Feeling exposed, they have started heading out in groups, limiting their range and traveling with emergency beacons issued by the government.
U.S.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States at the Pentagon, in Washington.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
As U.S. military leaders prepare for Virginia meeting, agenda comes into focus
Some officials have billed the meeting between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and top U.S. military leaders across the globe as focused on the "warrior ethos."
A federal agent aims a less-lethal launcher at protesters outside the Broadview ICE processing facility, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an increased federal law enforcement presence to assist with crime prevention, in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Sep 27, 2025
ICE tactics inflame tensions in New York, Chicago and other cities
Immigration officers are pepper spraying protesters and manhandling detainees in overt displays of force.
People carry a banner depicting U.S. President Donald Trump, as they protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after he delivered an address at the 80th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
Trump says Gaza talks with Middle East countries are intense and will continue
Trump met leaders and officials from multiple Muslim-majority countries this week to discuss the situation in Gaza.
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.
A semiconductor wafer is tested on a Flying Probe Tester 4080 at Semicon 2025 in Taipei on Sept. 10.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 27, 2025
Trump mulls tariffs on foreign electronics based on number of chips
A source said the Commerce Department was considering a 15% tariff rate for electronics from Japan and the European Union.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks before signing executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Sept. 19.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 27, 2025
Trump’s 100% pharmaceutical tariffs won’t apply to Japan and EU
A U.S.-Japan joint statement says American tariff rates on Japanese drugs and semiconductors should not exceed those applied to others, including the EU.
U.S. President Donald Trump is rolling out a number of new tariffs on Oct. 1.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 26, 2025
Japan might be spared Trump's 100% tariffs on pharmaceuticals
The country has a most-favored-nation agreement with the U.S. that should cover these products.
U.S. President Donald Trump stands with U.S. Vice President JD Vance (left) and FIFA President Gianni Infantino during an announcement at the White House on Aug. 22.
SOCCER / World cup
Sep 26, 2025
Donald Trump says World Cup matches will be moved if host cities are not safe
Trump was asked by reporters in the Oval Office specifically about games in Seattle and San Francisco.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Sep 26, 2025
A painful display at the United Nations
The U.N. will rarely actually solve problems but it can expose them.
Nippon Steel has announced a $300 million investment in two U.S. Steel facilities, which forms part of its $11 billion commitment to the American steelmaker.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 26, 2025
Nippon Steel to invest $300 million in U.S. Steel
The investment in two U.S. Steel plants forms part of the Japanese company's $11 billion commitment to the American steelmaker.
The Trump administration’s new fees and proposed changes to the H-1B visa system risk undermining the country’s college-to-work pipeline for foreign STEM graduates, potentially damaging American competitiveness.  
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2025
The H-1B visa reset will crush America’s college pipeline
The Department of Homeland Security says it’s moving to a weighted selection process that would "favor the allocation of H-1B visas to higher skilled and higher paid aliens.”
Three Russian MiG-31s, like the one seen here, violated Estonian airspace this month over the Gulf of Finland, escalating regional tensions further.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2025
Russia’s probes of NATO airspace demand a unified response
The Nordic-Baltic skies should be defended, not merely patrolled. That requires a greater NATO commitment with more aircraft.
U.S. President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Thursday.
BUSINESS
Sep 26, 2025
Trump signs order declaring TikTok sale ready and values it at $14 billion
The publication of the executive order shows Trump is making progress on the sale of TikTok's U.S. assets.
A bipartisan group of economic experts urged the Supreme Court not to let U.S. President Donald Trump fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 26, 2025
Economic luminaries enter legal battle over Fed independence
The Supreme Court this year has largely sided with Trump in his firing decisions, but the justices have previously said the Fed is a "uniquely structured, quasi-private entity.”
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
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.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
What would a ‘backup capital’ look like for Japan?
The Japan Innovation Party has long sought to get Osaka designated as Japan's backup capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
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