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Apple Daily Sentences Show a New Era of Media Peril in ...

Two editors and an opinion writer from Jimmy Lai’s now-shuttered newspaper were ...

Japan Stocks Surge on Takaichi’s Landslide Election Win

Stocks climbed on Monday as investors cheered a result seen as a mandate for the...

What We Can Learn From Southern Red States About Education

Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana traditionally were America’s educational base...

We Legalized Marijuana. Now We Must Regulate It.

Given the growing harms from marijuana use, American lawmakers should do more to...

A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to D...

Wilder, Idaho, prided itself on comity. Then federal agents stormed a racetrack ...

Vietnam’s Leader Has New Power, and He’s in a Hurry

To Lam is a former security chief who carved his way to prominence and relishes ...

Is the King Cake Baby Jesus?

Does the popular figurine represent Jesus or the Crescent City’s typical joie de...

Jimmy Lai’s 20-Year Sentence Follows Beijing’s Playbook...

The sentence for the media mogul, along with long prison terms for his editors, ...

Venezuela Frees Key Opposition Figures, Then Rearrests One

Hours after at least 35 political prisoners were released, one of the most promi...

San Francisco Teachers Begin Strike, Closing School for...

The strike closed public schools for more than 50,000 students in the city and h...

Respite From Wind-Driven, Bone-Chilling Cold Weather Is...

Wind chills below zero were expected to persist across parts of the Northeast an...

Hollywood Braces for New Round of Labor Talks

The last time writers and actors negotiated contracts, in 2023, dual strikes fro...

The Death Toll in Ukraine

We are covering the latest from the war.

How Japan’s Leader, Sanae Takaichi, Rescued Her Party f...

Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister, harnessed her personal popu...

The New Way Trump Allies Are Offering Access to the Pre...

Plus, Super Bowl and Olympics highlights.