As President Trump’s devotees stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon, several senior administration officials took the opportunity to resign. One of them was deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger. Most Americans will likely see him as yet another fed-up Trump official, without realizing the greater significance of his four years of White House service. Even though Pottinger’s na
U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence, according to four former officials familiar with the matter. The warnings were based on multiple sources, including intercepted communications, that showed Giuliani was interacting with people tied to Russian intell
Interpreters translating the mudslinging in real time for public broadcaster NHK on Wednesday faced what must have been one of their more challenging assignments: keeping up with the interjections, half-sentences and fiery squabbling that characterized the clash between President Trump and challenger Joe Biden, as moderator Chris Wallace battled to maintain order.
During a 2015 interview at his imposing office in Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed a humility that’s rare indeed among world leaders these days. “Politicians should be humble in the face of history,” he told me, referring to the suffering that Japan had caused Korea during World War II.
The resignation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — Japan’s most consequential leader since World War II — is a major loss for both Japan and the United States. His unprecedented longevity as prime minister (since 2012, and earlier in 2006-2007) brought the country stability and, therefore, increased Tokyo’s influence in world affairs. Though his successor remains to be chosen, Abe’s main international
As the novel coronavirus sweeps across the United States, it appears to be infecting and killing black Americans at a disproportionately high rate, according to a Washington Post analysis of early data from jurisdictions across the country. The emerging stark racial disparity led the surgeon general Tuesday to acknowledge in personal terms the increased risk for African Americans amid growing dema
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