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U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a prime-time address to the nation at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD
Apr 4, 2026
White House seeks $1.5 trillion defense budget as Iran war drives costs
The proposal would lift Pentagon spending by more than 40% in a single year — the sharpest increase since World War II.
U.S. President Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi as attorney general, expressing frustrations with her performance.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 3, 2026
Trump fires Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general
The U.S. president felt Bondi was not moving quickly enough to prosecute critics and adversaries whom he wanted to face criminal charges, according to sources.
Protesters gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday. The court heard a landmark case testing whether U.S. President Donald Trump can limit birthright citizenship, the long-held principle that nearly all children born in the United States are automatically citizens.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 2, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court justices skeptical of Trump order to restrict birthright citizenship
The Supreme Court proceedings come after a lower court found that Trump’s order restricting birthright citizenship violated language in the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters after signing an executive order in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 1, 2026
Trump signs order tightening mail-in voting, drawing swift legal threats
The ‌order would ‌use federal data to help election officials verify voter eligibility and would require absentee ballots to be sent only to voters on each state’s approved list.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping talk as they leave after a bilateral meeting at Gimhae International Airport, in Busan, South Korea, in October 2025.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 1, 2026
Trump’s delayed Xi summit gives U.S.-China irritants room to grow
In recent days, China launched retaliatory probes into U.S. trade practices, while a bipartisan group of American senators visited Taiwan to press for more spending to deter China.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a poster showing what was described as reciprocal tariffs during an announcement in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 2, 2025.
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 1, 2026
Oil shock from war on Iran unwinds traders’ playbook since Trump’s tariffs
Fallout from the conflict for energy markets and global trade is forcing a shift away from popular, crowded trades that had come to define markets.
Passengers wait in a Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint queue at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) in Baltimore, Maryland, on Sunday.
WORLD
Mar 31, 2026
Long airport waits ease after TSA workers receive back pay
The longest lines in history at many airports earlier this month forced flyers to miss their flights and consider other travel options.
U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters while Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio look on, as they attend a meeting with oil industry executives at the White House in Washington in January.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Mar 30, 2026
JD or Marco? Iran war raises 2028 stakes as Trump weighs Vance vs. Rubio.
Vice President JD Vance has taken a cautious approach, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio has aligned himself closely with the president’s hawkish stance.
People hold signs and flags as they march during the "No Kings" national day of protest in Chicago on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 29, 2026
Huge turnout for protests against Trump across U.S. on ‘No Kings’ day
The anti-Trump mood has spilled beyond U.S. borders, with rallies in Amsterdam, Madrid and Rome, where 20,000 people marched under a heavy police presence.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks during a visit to the Engineering Design Services manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan on March 18.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 29, 2026
Vance wins CPAC conservative meeting’s 2028 presidential straw poll
About 53% of the more than ​1,600 attendees who voted in the poll chose Vance.
Travelers wait in line at a TSA checkpoint at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, on Thursday.
WORLD
Mar 27, 2026
Trump orders government to pay airport security workers
Nearly 500 airport security officers ​have quit since the start of a partial government shutdown in February.
A United Airlines aircraft taxis next to the wreckage of an Air Canada Express jet that collided with a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York, on Monday.
WORLD
Mar 24, 2026
Two pilots killed in New York runway collision as Trump sends ICE to airports
The crash at LaGuardia Airport also injured dozens of passengers and led to hundreds of flight cancellations in the latest disruption for airports amid a personnel shortage.
Traffic lights along the coastline of Havana during a blackout on Monday
WORLD
Mar 17, 2026
Trump vows to ‘take’ Cuba as island reels from oil embargo
The Caribbean island of 9.6 million people is grappling with yet another major power cut.
Peter Thiel speaks on the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 21, 2016. Thiel, an early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has been exploring the concept of the Antichrist in recent years.
WORLD
Mar 16, 2026
Peter Thiel’s secretive Rome conference draws Catholic Church attention
The co-founder of artificial intelligence software firm Palantir has devoted increasing attention to religious and philosophical ideas in recent years.
During trade talks in Paris on Sunday, Chinese officials showed openness to buying U.S. poultry, beef and non-soybean row crops.
BUSINESS
Mar 16, 2026
U.S. and China discuss farm goods and managed trade in ‘remarkably stable’ talks
The Paris talks touched on potential areas of agreement such as agriculture and critical minerals.
A man walks past election posters on the day of the first round of the French mayoral election in Paris on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 15, 2026
French far right faces early tests in local votes: What to watch
Voters in 35,000 municipalities will choose mayors and councilors in a two-round ballot that typically turns on local issues and personalities rather than national party platforms.
An Iranian woman reacts as she takes part in the Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally, a commemoration in support of the Palestinian people on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in Tehran.
WORLD
Mar 14, 2026
With Iran war exit elusive, Trump aides vie to affect outcome
U.S. officials and advisors are debating when and how to declare victory even as the conflict spreads across the Middle East.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks in New York City on Monday after a weekend incident in which an improvised explosive device was thrown near an anti-Islam protest. Police are investigating the attack as an Islamic State group-inspired act of "terrorism."
WORLD / Politics
Mar 14, 2026
Congressional Republicans echo anti-Muslim rhetoric as Islamophobic incidents rise
On social media, at least four Republican members of Congress posted language viewed by many Muslim Americans and Democrats as Islamophobic.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance salutes as members of a U.S. Army team carry a flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Kentucky, during a dignified transfer solemn event at Dover Air Force Base, in Dover, Delaware, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 12, 2026
Vance treads Iran tightrope with an eye on 2028
A former U.S. Marine, Vice President JD Vance has built a political brand as a noninterventionist who wanted to keep the United States out of anymore long, foreign wars.
Shipping containers are stacked at a terminal at the port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California, on Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2026
U.S. opens new unfair-trade probes to rebuild Trump’s tariff pressure
The investigation could lead to new tariffs imposed against China, the European Union, India, Japan, South Korea and Mexico by this summer.
Uruguay federation reportedly cancels charter flight after World Cup exit
Uruguay's Jose Maria Gimenez reacts after the team's loss against Spain at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Friday.
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.
India’s gig workers pay the price for exposure to New Delhi’s hazardous air
Rohit Kushwaha waits for a customer as he delivers his last parcel of the day, in New Delhi in January. His work as a delivery driver has helped pay the family’s bills, but has had a significant impact on his health.
Chinese and Russian bombers and fighter jets stage joint patrol near Japan
A Chinese Air Force H-6 bomber is seen during a joint patrol with Russian military aircraft on Saturday.
U.S. missile moves in Japan send China clear message: A new era has arrived
Soldiers conduct the first Typhon midrange capability live-fire exercise outside of the continental United States, firing an SM-6 missile in July last year in Australia's Northern Territory during Exercise Talisman Sabre.
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."
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.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.
‘The colors speak for themselves’: How Japan’s chroma bible went global
“A Dictionary of Color Combinations” is meant to function as a quick-reference guide for artists, designers and anyone with a passing interest in aesthetics as a quantifiable pursuit.

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