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FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during a meeting in Washington in September.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 12, 2024
FBI chief Christopher Wray to resign before Trump takes office
Donald Trump has announced the nomination of staunch loyalist Kash Patel to head the top U.S. law enforcement agency.
Former chief of staff to the U.S. secretary of defense Kash Patel speaks during a campaign rally for former U.S. President Donald Trump in Las Vegas in October.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2024
Trump picks Kash Patel to head FBI
Patel has called for stripping the FBI of its intelligence-gathering role and purging anyone who refuses to support Trump's agenda.
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 10, 2024
FBI’s most-wanted pastor’s arrest puts Philippine's Duterte on defense
Apollo Quiboloy, founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ church, is wanted by the FBI for alleged sexual abuse, human trafficking and smuggling.
Former U.S. President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wears a bandage on his ear during the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 18. Trump was indeed hit by an assassin's bullet or a fragment of one, the FBI said Friday, putting to rest questions over the nature of the Republican candidate's wounding at a campaign rally this month.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 27, 2024
FBI confirms Trump hit by bullet in assassination attempt
Former U.S. President Donald Trump was indeed hit by an assassin's bullet or a fragment of one, the FBI said Friday, putting to rest questions over the nature of the Republican candidate's wounding at a campaign rally this month.
Missile systems form part of the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9. The FBI tries to maintain a tricky balance in spy operations: the more access informants have to valuable intelligence, the higher the risk that they could be compromised.
WORLD / Politics
May 21, 2024
FBI shed informants linked to Russian influence operations
After a secret review several years ago, the bureau cut off confidential sources thought to be connected to Russian disinformation.
Leaders of intelligence agencies testify before a congressional committee about worldwide threats in Washington on March 11.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 15, 2024
Campaign puts Trump and the spy agencies on a collision course
Some former officials fear that Trump, if elected again, would try to weaken intelligence agencies or undermine their independence.
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, at a House Oversight Committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 10.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 21, 2024
FBI informant got false dirt on Bidens from Russia: prosecutors
Alexander Smirnov, 43, a dual U.S. and Israeli national, was arrested last week.
Charles McGonigal, formerly the FBI's top counterintelligence official in New York, arrives with his attorney, Seth DuCharme (left), at the Federal District Court in New York on Tuesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 16, 2023
Ex-FBI official pleads guilty to violations for Russian oligarch
Charles McGonigal had overseen the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division in New York, where he led efforts to root out foreign spies.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Apr 14, 2023
U.S. intel leaks expose modern realities of keeping secrets
Leaked U.S. documents threaten to expose important military secrets and to undermine the confidence of America's allies.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 21, 2022
U.S. judge asks Trump's lawyers if he declassified records in FBI search
Roughly 100 of the documents seized in the court-approved Aug. 8 search at Trump's home at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach had classified markings.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 17, 2022
U.S. Justice Department asks appeals court to allow review of classified documents in Trump probe
The department said the court should halt part of a lower court decision that prevents prosecutors from relying on the classified documents in their criminal investigation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 16, 2022
Trump documents will be reviewed by retiring judge, court says
The Justice Department has already appealed the appointment of the special master at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2022
U.S. reveals more classified records may be missing in Trump probe
The U.S. Justice Department suggested there could be more classified records that were removed from the Trump White House that investigators have not yet located.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 8, 2022
‘Special master’ wanted: Must keep secrets and ignore Trump’s barbs
That person will review documents seized from the former president's Mar-a-Lago home as part of a probe into his handling of sensitive government records.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 7, 2022
FBI found intel on foreign government's nuclear readiness at Trump home, report says
The 15 boxes handed over by Trump to the FBI were found to contain 184 documents marked as confidential, secret or top secret.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 20, 2022
Once hated by the left, FBI is now U.S. conservatives' evil demon
FBI agents are used to criticism, but never in the agency's history have they faced anything like the attacks from conservatives after the raid on former President Donald Trump's home.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 19, 2022
U.S. judge says he leans toward releasing some evidence for Trump search
News outlets appeared in federal court in West Palm Beach to persuade the judge that the public interest in the evidence outweighs the benefits of keeping it sealed.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 12, 2022
The poisoned relationship between Trump and the keepers of U.S. secrets
The FBI search of Mar-a-Lago is a coda to the years of tumult between an erratic president and the nation's intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 12, 2022
FBI sought nuclear documents in search of Trump's home, media report says
It was not clear if such documents were recovered at the former president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 11, 2022
Trump taps small, trusted pool of lawyers as legal woes mount
Overlapping circles when it comes to who has represented the former U.S. president and those around him could pose conflicts of interests as cases progress.
Nippon Steel alleges undue White House influence on doomed deal review
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Dec. 10.
Record 78% of people in Japan feel anxious, government survey finds
The public opinion survey on people's lives, conducted by the Cabinet Office, found that 28.1% of respondents think that their standard of living is at a lower-middle level among the general public — the highest percentage to give that response in 35 years.
Police raided suspect's home to arrest him after fatal Kitakyushu stabbing
Broken window glass is seen at Masanori Hirabaru's house in Kitakyushu's Kokuraminami Ward.
Taiwan lawmakers brawl over bills that would 'damage democracy'
Lawmakers from the Democratic Progressive Party and opposition party Kuomintang brawl in parliament in Taipei on Friday.
Mother hopes for reunion with daughter ensnared by Tokyo host clubs
The Kabukicho district in Tokyo, where the daughter of a woman in her 60s fell deeply into the host club culture.
Casual workouts, cool living, ‘complete’ food: Japan’s health trends of 2024
In 2024, efficiency trumped effort among Japan's fitness-focused aspirants.
The mighty Mekong River's growing plastic problem
A group of elephant keepers in Chiang Saen, Thailand, remove plastic waste from the Ruak River, a tributary of the Mekong River, as a pair of Asian elephants bathe behind them.
Japanese officials inspect Yokota Air Base over PFAS concerns
The Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo in September 2019. An inspection of the base by Japanese government officials on Friday came amid public pressure to investigate suspected links between the use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam by the U.S. base and contamination of soil and groundwater in western Tokyo.
Crime numbers rise in Japan for second straight year
A police officer stands in front of the residence of a man alleged to have stabbed two junior high school students in Kitakyushu.
A year of Oscar wins and a quiet push for diversity
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Evil Does Not Exist,” released in Japanese theaters in April, sharply dramatizes the clash between rural and urban values. The film won five awards at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, including the second-place Silver Lion prize.

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