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November 12, 2026
 

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Susan Pretti and Michael Pretti, parents of Alex Pretti, speak at a news conference in Minneapolis, on Tuesday. The family of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis nurse fatally shot by immigration agents in January, accused the federal government on Tuesday of keeping them in the dark about the investigation into their son’s killing.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 28, 2026
Parents of Alex Pretti slam Trump administration for withholding evidence into his killing
Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, was killed while participating in protests against the federal immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis.
Heavy snow after a snow storm in Prospect Park in Brooklyn in February 2024. Frigid temperatures are expected to affect 150 million Americans through the weekend as a massive storm is set to hit the U.S. with heavy snow.
WORLD
Jan 23, 2026
Freezing temps and heavy snow expected in central and eastern U.S. this weekend
New York, Boston, Baltimore and Washington could ?receive 10 to 25 centimeters of heavy, wet snow starting on Saturday.
Federal law enforcement agents speak to a pedestrian in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 12, 2026
U.S. Homeland Security to send hundreds more officers to Minnesota
The move comes after tens of thousands of people marched through Minneapolis to protest the fatal shooting of ?a woman ?by an immigration agent.
A picture of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national suspected of shooting two national guard members, is displayed at a news conference in Washington on Thursday.
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 28, 2025
What we know about the suspect in national guard shooting near White House
The Afghan national, who had entered the U.S. through a Biden-era?immigration program in 2021, had no known criminal history, according to a federal law enforcement dossier.
Juan Rivera gave the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump high marks on its handling of immigration because "there's a lot more public safety."
WORLD / Society
Sep 5, 2025
These Trump voters back his immigration crackdown, but some worry about his methods
All 20 voters said they support Trump’s work to expel immigration offenders with violent criminal records, but there was less consensus about how he is going about the crackdown.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 28, 2025
They voted for Trump. Most still back him — but not on everything
A group of 20 Trump voters were asked to share their thoughts on the president’s performance so far. The results were a mixed bag.
Documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy are displayed after they were released following an order from U.S. President Donald Trump, in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 19, 2025
Trump releases JFK assassination documents
Many of the documents reflected the work by investigators to learn more about assassin Lee Harvey Oswald’s time in the Soviet Union.
Protesters link arms outside Hamilton Hall barricading students inside the building at Columbia University, despite an order to disband the protest encampment supporting Palestinians or face suspension, in New York on April 30.
WORLD
May 7, 2024
Columbia University cancels main graduation ceremony in wake of protests
The protests drew national attention, inspiringf similar demonstrations at dozens of universities around the country.
The armed suspect in a shooting in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday. At least 22 people have been reported killed and dozens injured in the city, U.S. media has reported, citing police.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 26, 2023
At least 22 killed and dozens wounded in Maine shootings
If the death toll of 22 is confirmed, the massacre would be the deadliest in the United States since at least August 2019.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 15, 2022
Election denier Kari Lake loses governor’s race in battleground Arizona
Lake’s loss is the latest defeat for a series of candidates endorsed by Trump, who on Tuesday is expected to announce another White House bid.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jan 17, 2021
Law enforcement scrutiny drives U.S. extremists into internet’s dark corners
Officials warn that online chatter could include early warning signals of planned attacks around the inauguration of Joe Biden in Washington on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 28, 2018
In #MeToo era, Ford lauded on left and right as honest and brave
Christine Blasey Ford began her testimony in front of a Senate committee by saying she was “terrified,” and at times she looked it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 21, 2016
In some U.S. cities, police push back against ‘open-carry’ gun laws
Tents, ladders, coolers, canned goods, tennis balls and bicycle locks are banned in the area surrounding the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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