Lawmakers in the Japan Innovation Party (Ishin) are set to meet this afternoon to decide whether to form an alliance with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party that would likely lead to Sanae Takaichi becoming the country’s first female prime minister.

A gathering of Ishin lawmakers from both houses of parliament that begins at 2 p.m. in Tokyo ...Read more

MOUNT PROSPECT — Kim Fisher was arriving home from a Sunday morning workout with her husband when she saw them: at least three people in fatigues and masks coming out from her backyard, stepping around a chain link fence.

“And I said, ‘What the heck is that?’” said Fisher, a 49-year-old mother of three. “I did not say heck.”

The...Read more

Voters will decide whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court should be transformed for years to come when they are asked next month whether they should retain three justices for another 10-year term or oust them.

The justices — Justices Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty, and David Wecht — were each elected as Democrats in 2015 during a ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will “be fine” with China in comments that come just before the two sides return to the negotiating table and a fragile trade truce nears expiration.

When asked in an interview with Fox News on Sunday about his threat to raise the tariff on Chinese goods by 100%, Trump said the levy was “not ...Read more

Israel launched strikes against Hamas in Gaza and reportedly suspended all aid shipments on Sunday after blaming Hamas for a lethal Palestinian ambush that left two soldiers dead.

The Israel Defense Forces said it responded to “blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement” by striking dozens of “Hamas terror targets” including weapons ...Read more

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Senator Rodrigo Paz won Bolivia’s presidential runoff on Sunday, pledging to repair relations with Washington and curb spending to address the deepest economic crisis in four decades.

Paz led former president Jorge Tuto Quiroga of the Alianza Libre coalition by 54.5% to 45.5%, with 98% of ballots tallied in the preliminary ...Read more

Eleven people were arrested in downtown Denver during a wave of secondary marches after Saturday afternoon’s main “No Kings” protest disbanded, police said.

A group of protesters marching west on Sixth Avenue through traffic at about 6:45 p.m. Saturday tried to access Interstate 25 near Santa Fe Drive, a spokesperson for the Denver Police...Read more

The U.S. military demonstration that shot live-fire artillery rounds over Interstate 5 on Saturday dropped metal shrapnel on a California Highway Patrol vehicle, resulting in damage, agency officials said Sunday.

The CHP said that the shrapnel was from an explosive ordnance that was fired over Interstate 5 and "detonated overhead prematurely,...Read more

India said it’s making solid progress in trade negotiations with the U.S. as it looks to clinch a trade deal and bring down punitive tariffs.

The two sides have narrowed their differences on trade-related matters, an Indian official told reporters in New Delhi on Saturday, asking not to be identified as the discussions are private. There are ...Read more

U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) visited three Black churches in Los Angeles on Sunday morning to campaign for California's redistricting effort, which could add five or six Democratic representatives to his ranks.

Amid a congressional deadlock over healthcare subsidies that has left the government shut down for more than two...Read more

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $16.6 billion 2026 budget proposal won early praise from progressives and disdain from business interests when he unveiled it last week.

While he framed his pitch as the city withstanding the financial impact of President Donald Trump’s term while avoiding hits to middle-class taxpayers, it pushes off more ...Read more

Asylum denials in Philadelphia’s immigration court have spiked through the first seven months of President Donald Trump’s administration, according to an Inquirer analysis of the latest available government data.

The court has denied 74% of asylum claims in the first seven months of Trump’s second term, compared with a 61% denial rate ...Read more

A tropical wave, located very near the islands in the far southeastern Caribbean on Sunday, could develop this week — potentially into a tropical depression or tropical storm, experts said.

The system “currently lacks a closed circulation,” but is becoming more organized and could become a tropical depression in the coming days, according...Read more

Vote counting has started in Bolivia’s presidential runoff, which will determine which of two pro-business candidates will take office amid the deepest economic crisis in 40 years.

Senator Rodrigo Paz of the Christian Democratic Party and former President Jorge Tuto Quiroga of the Alianza Libre coalition both pledge to curb government ...Read more

SpaceX plowed ahead with a record 31st launch of one of its Falcon 9 boosters with another Starlink mission from the Space Coast on Sunday.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-17 mission carrying 28 satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 1:39 p.m.

The first-stage booster made its fleet-leading ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Sunday increased the chances a Caribbean-bound system will develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, the tropical wave, dubbed Invest 98L, was on top of the Caribbean’s Windward Islands with a large area of showers and thunderstorms, but without ...Read more

Israel launched strikes against Hamas in Gaza and reportedly suspended all aid shipments on Sunday after blaming Hamas for a lethal Palestinian ambush that left two troops dead.

The Israel Defense Forces said it responded to “blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement” by striking dozens of “Hamas terror targets” including weapons ...Read more

Calling Colombian President Gustavo Petro “an illegal drug leader,” President Donald Trump announced Sunday the end of all U.S. aid to the South American country, upending the relationship with one of the region’s closest military allies at a time of a massive U.S. buildup near neighboring Venezuela.

Trump said Petro, who he said has “a...Read more