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REPUBLICANS

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2021
What Neera Tanden’s demise says about ‘cancel culture’
What Tanden's defeat mostly tells us is that you should not insult a group of thin-skinned people if you might need their support in the future.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 2, 2021
Trump’s not-quite-triumphant return
Trump sounded most sad and pathetic as he again circled back toward the Big Lie about the 2020 election.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 1, 2021
Trump teases 2024 run with proven rhetoric at major U.S. conservative event
The former U.S. president's central argument is that he's the best candidate to win in 2024 because — according to him — he never lost the 2020 election.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 27, 2021
With gold-colored Trump statue, conservatives show fealty to former president
U.S. conservatives praised Donald Trump at an annual gathering on Friday, even unveiling a golden statue of the former president, showing he remains a Republican political force despite violent scenes in Washington last month.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 26, 2021
LGBTQ Americans inch closer to 'freedom' as House passes Equality Act
By a vote of 224 to 206, the House passed the landmark Equality Act, which amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 21, 2021
Trump seeks return to spotlight with address to conservative meeting
Former U.S. President Donald Trump will seek to return to the political spotlight in an address to a major meeting of conservatives, a source familiar with his plans said on Saturday, as the Republican plots his post-White House moves.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 19, 2021
Trump’s children lean against 2022 races, muting talk of dynasty
Donald Trump says he's open to running again in 2024, but there are no immediate plans underway to turn the family into a political dynasty like the Kennedys or the Bushes.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 17, 2021
Trump lashes out at Mitch McConnell in deepening feud between top Republicans
'Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again,' Trump said in a statement.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2021
For Trump, no conviction, but a historic repudiation
One thing that Trump made clear was that nothing in the constitutional system makes presidents respect the U.S. political system and respond to that system's incentives.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2021
Trump's impeachment faced partisan doom
Trump may have escaped being convicted by Congress for instigating a murderous mob attack on America's Capitol, yet it seems clear that he will be held accountable for it in history.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 16, 2021
Pelosi keeps up pressure over Capitol riot with 9/11-style panel
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress must create an independent Sept. 11-type commission to investigate the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol now that former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial has ended.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 14, 2021
For Trump, an escape, but not an exoneration
Having failed to convict, Democrats hope that the trial nonetheless made it implausible if not impossible for Trump to ever run for president again as he has hinted he might do.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 14, 2021
Trump is acquitted for second time even as seven Republicans vote to impeach
With most of Trump's party coalescing around him, the 57-43 tally fell 10 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 12, 2021
Republicans unmoved as Democrats use Trump's own words in case against him
GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, one of Trump's closest allies in Congress, suggested the prosecution was futile, with most of his Republican colleagues already decided against conviction.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 12, 2021
Anti-Trump Republicans face major challenge in launching third party
The resistance to a third party among some of Trump's toughest Republican critics underscores the extreme difficulty of such a political revolt.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 11, 2021
Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party
Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 10, 2021
Trump’s Senate trial moves forward after vote on constitutionality
The move clears the way for arguments to begin on whether Trump incited an insurrection by inflaming the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last month.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 2, 2021
Mitch McConnell calls Marjorie Taylor Greene a 'cancer' on GOP
Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican, said on Monday that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's embrace of conspiracy theories was a "cancer" on their party, as House Democrats moved to strip her of committee assignments.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 30, 2021
U.S. House Democrat to move office after confrontation with Republican lawmaker
In the latest sign of rising tensions within the U.S. Congress, a Democratic congresswoman said Friday she plans to relocate her Capitol Hill office for safety reasons after being "berated" by an outspoken conservative Republican congresswoman.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2021
U.S. Senate Republicans unite behind failed effort to challenge Trump impeachment trial
There is a debate among scholars over whether the Senate can hold a trial for Trump now that he has left office.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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