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Eduardo Santoyo stands by his family's tamales stand in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago on Saturday. Santoyo's mother, Maria, was tending their business on Friday morning when she was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 13, 2025
Snatched: How ICE raids are shattering Chicago¡¯s immigrant world
Families are left to pick up the pieces as immigration agents swoop in without warning, often in broad daylight, snatch unsuspecting residents and drive off.
People walk on the street near members of the national guard after U.S. President Donald Trump deployed the national guard and ordered an increased presence of federal law enforcement to assist in crime prevention, in Washington on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 25, 2025
Trump clashes with Democrats as he expands national guard plans
Trump this month deployed the national guard to the streets of Washington in a widely criticized show of force.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris hits the gavel after reading the vote totals as Speaker of the House Mike Johnson looks on during of a joint session of Congress to certify the results of the 2024 presidential election, inside the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Monday in Washington.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 7, 2025
U.S. lawmakers certify Trump win, four years after Capitol riot
The formality was remarkable for its contrast to four years ago, when the Republican summoned a mob to Washington that ransacked the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
WORLD / Politics
Nov 5, 2024
Panic buttons and SWAT teams: U.S. braces for election unrest
With Kamala Harris and Donald Trump deadlocked at the climax of the 2024 race, authorities are keen to reassure jittery Americans that their votes are secure.
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (center) visits the U.S.-Mexico border in Douglas, Arizona, on Sept. 27.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2024
The seven states that will decide the U.S. presidency
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are hurtling toward their Nov. 5 election showdown.
A supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump waves a flag reading ¡°God, Guns and Trump¡± during a demonstration in support of the Republican presidential candidate in Huntington Beach, California, on July 14, a day after Trump was shot in an assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2024
¡®Bullets are flying¡¯: Divisive U.S. political rhetoric sees violence soar
In a neck-and-neck U.S. presidential election, tensions have soared along with the rhetoric.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 30, 2023
Nikki Haley and others struggle to gain 2024 ground on Trump
With Trump¡¯s legal setbacks mounting, Americans are bracing for a parade of contenders positioning themselves as more moderate, less bombastic alternatives.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 25, 2022
Thousands evacuated as ¡®explosive¡¯ California wildfire spreads uncontained
More than 2,000 firefighters backed by 17 helicopters have been deployed against the Oak Fire, which broke out Friday near Yosemite National Park.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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