Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he intended to stay on even as his ruling coalition suffered a historic setback in an upper house election on Sunday, an outcome that may further unsettle markets.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party, along with longtime partner Komeito, lost its majority in the chamber, public broadcaster NHK ...Read more

Kit Parker is used to being an anomaly on Harvard University’s campus. The physicist — an Army Reserve colonel who served in Afghanistan — is a long-time critic of the school’s hiring practices and what he sees as liberal biases.

For months, he’s urged the university to address criticisms from the White House, even as the vast ...Read more

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he intended to stay on even as his ruling coalition was locked in a battle to maintain its majority in an upper house election Sunday.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party along with longtime partner Komeito were struggling to retain a majority in the chamber, with the outcome closely watched by ...Read more

Six months after President Donald Trump took the oath of office, California Attorney General Rob Bonta has unleashed a torrent of litigation against his administration.

Bonta, the Democrat who leads the state Department of Justice, has filed or joined a whopping 34 lawsuits against the Republican administration on behalf of California. That’s...Read more

Japan’s ruling coalition looked set to lose its majority in the upper house, according to exit polls, an outcome that would further weaken embattled Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s leadership and potentially unsettle markets.

A poll by public broadcaster NHK showed that the ruling coalition is set to secure about 32-51 seats of the 125 up ...Read more

Six years after his death, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is again in the spotlight, this one cast by President Donald Trump’s unrelenting MAGA base.

Epstein was arrested in 2019 and found dead in his cell at a jail in New York City just five weeks later. Investigators concluded that he killed himself while awaiting trial on federal sex ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said five jets may have been shot down during the recent India-Pakistan conflict, and reiterated that his administration used trade pressure to broker a ceasefire between the two sides, a claim New Delhi had repeatedly rejected.

“These are two serious nuclear countries and they were hitting each other,” Trump ...Read more

Japan’s voters will deliver a verdict on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s 10 months in office on Sunday, in an upper house election that takes place amid simmering discontent over inflation and unresolved negotiations with the U.S. on tariffs.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner Komeito are battling the ...Read more

For President Donald Trump, whose political career has benefited from voter anxiety over Washington elites, the health of his predecessor and the riches of Wall Street, the past week offered a reversal of fortune.

Trump’s efforts to escape the uproar over Jeffrey Epstein failed spectacularly, after the Wall Street Journal published a story ...Read more

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, or CVI, after he noted mild swelling in his lower legs. White House physician Dr. Sean P. Barbabella in a memo July 17 said the swelling prompted a full medical evaluation, including ultrasound tests and blood work.

Those confirmed CVI, a condition the ...Read more

If you’ve ever considered going vegetarian, now might be the time to make the jump to a meat-free diet.

Chicken and ground beef notched record-breaking prices in June, continuing their climb as feed and production costs rise along with demand. But while the cost of chicken has increased more steadily, beef prices have surged rapidly, jumping ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sued Dow Jones and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, for libel on Friday, striking back against the publication of a bombshell story in The Wall Street Journal alleging the president sent a sordid letter to notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s.

The Journal, a Dow Jones publication, reported...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sued Dow Jones and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, on Friday, striking back against the publication of a bombshell story in The Wall Street Journal alleging the president sent a sordid letter to notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s.

The Journal, a Dow Jones publication, reported Thursday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump against journalist Bob Woodward and a publishing house over the release of interview recordings from his first term in office.

US District Judge Paul Gardephe ruled on Friday that Trump failed to “plausibly” claim that he and Woodward ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The top U.S. intelligence official declassified an email trove purporting to expose a Democratic conspiracy to cast doubt on Donald Trump’s 2016 election win, just as his team seeks to defuse criticism over its handling of files linked to financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the 114 ...Read more

Taconite plants on Minnesota’s Iron Range will now get two extra years to comply with a rule that would have forced them to cut how much mercury they release into the air.

A proclamation signed by President Donald Trump on Thursday notes that the rule “places significant burdens on a sector critical to the Nation’s industrial foundation,�...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump is celebrating the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's "The Late Show" on CBS — and calling for even more late-night hosts to be axed.

"I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings," Trump wrote Friday morning on Truth Social. "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even ...Read more

President Donald Trump bowed to a storm of public pressure and ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to release some documents in the Jeffrey Epstein sex case after The Wall Street Journal published a purported racy happy birthday letter from Trump to the notorious pedophile.

In a late-night social media post, Trump told Bondi to release whatever ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is readying plans for industry-specific tariffs to kick in alongside his country-by-country duties in two weeks, ramping up his push to reshape the United States' standing in the global trading system by penalizing purchases from abroad.

Administration officials could release details of Trump’s planned 50...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump could not contain his glee over CBS’ cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” — and he predicted that ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel would be next to get the ax.

“I absolutely love that Colbert got fired,” the president wrote Friday in a post on Truth Social. “His talent was even less than ...Read more