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Houston resident Eric Dunham approaches to receive a free lunch bag from business owner Nhan Ngo (left) and other volunteers at the Petit Beignets and Tapioca restaurant in Houston on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 2, 2025
‘I can’t eat’: Millions risk losing food aid during U.S. shutdown
Since the federal government shut down on Oct. 1 over budget disputes, the Trump administration announced it will halt SNAP funding starting Saturday.
Zohran Mamdani, New York City mayoral candidate, speaks at a campaign event in the Queens borough of New York on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 2, 2025
Obama calls Mamdani and praises campaign ahead of New York mayoral election
Mamdani, a Uganda-born state assembly member, has polled well ahead of his main rival, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, ahead of the Nov. 4 general election.
Volunteers sort donated food items at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank's South Los Angeles warehouse on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 1, 2025
Trump administration cannot suspend food aid benefits, U.S. judges rule
Two federal judges ruled that the administration must use contingency funds to pay for the benefits amid the ongoing government shutdown.
"This is not how the system is supposed to work," Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia said after Democrats were excluded from a briefing.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 31, 2025
Democrats excluded from briefing on U.S. military strikes off South America: senator
Members of Congress, especially Democrats, have been demanding more information about the deadly strikes on boats off the South American coast, which have killed nearly 60 people.
Alternative for Germany's Jan Wenzel Schmidt (right), a member of Germany's lower house of parliament, sings a tabooed verse of the German national anthem, together with Stefano Forte (third from right), president of the New York Young Republican Club, at a club in New York City, on Oct. 2.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 31, 2025
On the rise in Germany, far-right AfD deepens ties to Trump administration
The party has held meetings with senior U.S. State Department officials in recent months.
A sign hangs above desks used by the Burmese-language service in the offices of Radio Free Asia, following the termination of funding for the station, which broadcast in nine Asian languages, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order gutting the government-funded media outlet's parent and six other federal agencies, in Washington on March 15.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 30, 2025
Radio Free Asia suspends operations after Trump cuts and U.S. shutdown
Long a thorn in Beijing’s side, RFA’s closure comes just as the U.S. president meets his Chinese counterpart on an Asia trip seeking better relations.
Federal employees line up before collecting food from a Capital Area Food Bank distribution center as the U.S. government shutdown continues in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 30, 2025
Millions set to lose food aid amid U.S. government shutdown standoff
There has been no sign of movement in the weekslong stalemate, with funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, set to lapse Saturday.
Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump riot in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 30, 2025
U.S. prosecutors suspended after calling Jan. 6 defendants ‘mob of rioters,’ sources say
The decision marks the latest in a string of personnel actions targeting Justice Department employees who worked on criminal or civil cases that Trump and his supporters disfavor.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been among the most active opponents of Trump’s policies and is considering running for president in 2028.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 27, 2025
Harris and Newsom begin jockeying for 2028 presidential campaigns
Democrats are still looking to bounce back after then-U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump in the November 2024 presidential election.
New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee and the front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, greets supporters as his campaign hosts a soccer tournament designed to call attention to the high cost of living in New York, in Brooklyn on Oct. 19.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 26, 2025
Long-shot socialist Zohran Mamdani in striking distance of becoming New York mayor
The 34-year-old election front-runner was born in Uganda to a family of Indian origin and has lived in the United States since he was seven.
A person takes a video of the ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House on Friday.
WORLD
Oct 25, 2025
Tourists gawk and recoil at Trump’s destruction of the White House East Wing
The U.S. leader says they aren’t missing much and no one should mourn its demise. “It was a very small building,” Trump told reporters this week.
Paul Ingrassia, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, at a social event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington in June.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 25, 2025
Violence, racism and Nazi praise: The dark side of U.S. political group chats
Three separate controversies involving leaked text messages from private online group chats have rocked U.S. political circles this month.
Rotor blades and other parts for the ongoing construction of the Revolution Wind offshore wind turbine farm, staged on the State Pier in New London, Connecticut, in September.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 23, 2025
U.S. shipbuilders and ports face fallout of Trump’s assault on offshore wind
Trump’s policy on the offshore wind industry has included stop-work orders and permit reviews for projects spurred by former U.S. President Joe Biden’s green investment policy.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2025
Hopes for Xi-Trump summit dampened by tough Beijing moves and rising tension
Even if the talks get back on track, experts say a narrow deal on a few issues is the most likely outcome.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 23, 2025
Taiwan is courting MAGA influencers to get Trump’s attention
Officials have grown worried that Trump could undermine the self-ruled democracy’s interests during talks with China.
The seaport of Buenaventura in Colombia on June 28. Shipments to the U.S. account for 35% of Colombia's exports, according to the Colombian-American Chamber of Commerce, while 70% of imports from the U.S. are items not produced in the country.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2025
Trump’s Colombia tariffs would flip U.S. policy on drugs and trade
Trump’s tariff threat was a rejection of an idea about countering the narcotics business that free trade can make legitimate exports more appealing than drug trafficking.
U.S. Marines come ashore from a landing craft utility during training exercises in Arroyo, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 16.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 21, 2025
In Trump’s drug war, U.S. officials avoid tackling legal status of prisoners
The U.S. government chose not to use the term “prisoners of war” to describe two survivors of an attack last week by the U.S. military.
Steam rises out of chimneys at the nuclear plant on Three Mile Island in Middletown, Pennsylvania, in March 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 21, 2025
U.S. starts furloughing nuclear weapons workers as shutdown standoff continues
The United States has an arsenal of 5,177 nuclear warheads, with about 1,770 deployed, according to the global security nonprofit Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
The U.S.-China trade war has escalated as both sides use economic leverage, with China asserting dominance over rare earths to retaliate against U.S. tariffs, while the U.S. seeks a collective global response and long-term strategy to reduce dependency on China's supply chains.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 21, 2025
This is what a real trade war looks like
China has leverage over trading partners every bit as powerful as what Trump seeks to wield.
A displaced Palestinian girl carries water containers in Gaza City on Monday. Israel and Hamas have both recommitted to a ceasefire plan since Sunday's flare-up in which a Palestinian attack that killed two soldiers prompted an Israeli bombardment killing at least 28 people in Gaza.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 21, 2025
U.S. steps up diplomacy after Gaza truce shaken
The weekend violence reflected the stumbling blocks to keeping the long-sought ceasefire from unraveling and securing a lasting peace in Gaza.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Why is the yen so weak and what can Japan do about it?
Japan spent ¥11.7 trillion ($73 billion) between late April and late May to prop up the weak yen.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.

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