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The U.S. Supreme Court's justices acted with remarkable speed to shut down President Donald Trump's attempt to intervene in California's ballot count on the eve of Tuesday's midterm elections.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2026
Trump’s Supreme Court winning streak in election cases screeches to a halt
Justices acted with remarkable speed to shut down his attempt to intervene in California’s ballot count on the eve of Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Mahmoud Khalil calls for an end to Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip during a rally in New York in August 2025.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 20, 2026
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear case
Mahmoud Khalil faces the prospect of arrest and deportation if the lower court’s decision is allowed to stand.
The U.S. Supreme Court's order to resume deportations for now signals the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump may have the upper hand.
WORLD
Sep 30, 2026
Supreme Court lets Trump’s third-country deportations resume
The high court put on hold a federal judge’s order that required people who are being deported to get notice and a chance to argue their case.
Mail-in ballots are prepared at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump’s mail ballot curbs for midterms
Monday’s ruling came after North Carolina and Alabama began mailing ballots to voters and many more states prepared to do the same in the coming days.
Election workers extract mail-in ballots at the registrar of voters' office during the California primary election in San Diego, California, on June 2.
WORLD
Sep 15, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court blocks Postal Service restriction on mail ballots
Restricting mail-in ballots would stand to benefit Republicans given that Democratic voters disproportionately use mail-in ballots, surveys show.
Emergency crews work through smoke, debris and collapsing structures in the chaotic aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked?plane attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2026
The world Sept. 11 set in motion remains broken
The cold, hard reality is that neither the president nor Congress has any real interest in preserving constitutional rights and norms.
A reveler holds a rainbow flag during the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender culture in Tokyo in May 2016.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 4, 2026
Japan should define DEI before writing it into law
Japan is adopting the language of DEI while its only working metric assumes the very biological definition that Western self-ID frameworks have spent a decade trying to displace.
The U.S. Supreme Court has been pulled back into the high-stakes midterm election fight as early voting gets underway.
WORLD
Sep 4, 2026
Supreme Court asked to allow mail-in ballot curbs for midterms
The administration’s opponents have accused the U.S. president and officials of racing to implement the Postal Service’s new rules to aid Republicans in the congressional midterms.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event to sign executive orders related to birthright citizenship and the polysilicon industry, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Aug. 6
WORLD
Sep 3, 2026
Court halts Trump’s new birthright citizenship curbs
The fresh setback to Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda puts the fight over birthright citizenship on a path to return to the Supreme Court.
A ballot drop box outside a public library, ahead of the midterm primary election, in Boston, Massachusetts, on Aug. 20.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 25, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court hands a win to Trump over mail-in ballot restrictions
The U.S. president’s Republican Party is locked in a tight battle to retain control of Congress in November’s midterm elections.
The U.S. Supreme Court's action, known as an administrative stay, gives the justices additional time to consider the Trump administration's formal request to let it continue working on the $400 million White House ballroom project while a lawsuit by a historic preservation group seeking to stop the project proceeds.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 22, 2026
Supreme Court lets Trump continue work on White House ballroom for now
The court’s action gives the justices additional time to consider the administration’s formal request to let it continue working on the $400 million plan.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds an artist renderings as he talks to reporters about his proposed White House ballroom next to the worksite on May 19 in Washington.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 18, 2026
Trump defends ballroom to Supreme Court as military complex
In a filing made public Friday, the U.S. president asked the justices for an emergency order letting construction continue without restrictions while a legal fight continues.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks while U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick listen during an event at the White House in Washington on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 8, 2026
Trump’s new attack on birthright citizenship faces uphill legal battle
The Republican ?president has for years threatened to tighten birthright citizenship as part of his restrictive immigration agenda.
Money in politics mostly affirms politicians’ existing beliefs and voter preferences and efforts to restrict it often end up empowering outside groups.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2026
Money isn’t the root of all political evil
Money from super PACs and 501(c)4s flows to politicians that those entities already agree with and only helps as much as the candidate uses it.
Members of the League of United Latin American Citizens gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court after a decision on birthright citizenship in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 1, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court backs birthright citizenship in blow to Trump
In response, the U.S. president said on social media “we could easily make it up in Congress through Legislation.”
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that asylum seekers stopped at the border cannot seek protection abandons the humanitarian purpose of American asylum law.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court just betrayed asylum seekers
The majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, is a case study in the absurdities of legalism and shows why it has been condemned since the days of Jesus of Nazareth.
President Donald Trump holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, May 27.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 3, 2026
Trump administration drops $1.8 billion ‘weaponization’ fund after Republican backlash
The fund emerged after Trump’s unprecedented $10 billion lawsuit ?against the IRS over the alleged mishandling of his tax records.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to journalists as he makes his way to board Marine One before departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on May 8.
WORLD / Politics
May 21, 2026
Trump’s $1.776 billion ‘weaponization’ fund sparks outrage, but court challenges will be tough
Congressional Democrats have derided what is known as the Anti-Weaponization Fund as a slush fund to steer taxpayer dollars to Trump’s political allies.
U.S. Supreme Court associate justices Samuel Alito (left) and Clarence Thomas at the inauguration ceremony for U.S. President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2025
WORLD / Politics
May 4, 2026
As Clarence Thomas hits a milestone, his conservative stamp on the U.S. Supreme Court endures
Thomas has ?supported religious liberty, the death penalty and broad presidential powers, and has opposed gay marriage, affirmative action and campaign-finance reform.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday, the day justices released a ruling in Louisiana vs. Callais. The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act in the middle of primary season could create a potentially chaotic scramble among states that may consider drawing new maps.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 30, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court guts key provision of Voting Rights Act
With November congressional elections looming, the decision could prompt Republican-led states to seek to redraw electoral maps in order to gain an advantage.
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.

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