The trade deal reached last month between the U.S. and Japan was “win-win” for both countries, but implementing the terms of the pact may be a bigger challenge than reaching the deal, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said.

“Some say that carrying the trade deal out is harder than agreeing on it. I humbly seek your continued support ...Read more

Forecasters extended a weekend statewide air quality advisory into Monday because they expect smoke from Canadian wildfires to linger over the state and cause unhealthy levels of particle pollution.

Air quality will be poor enough on Monday to be unhealthy for sensitive groups, such as children and the elderly. At times, air quality may be bad ...Read more

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi struck a defiant tone in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, urging the nation to buy local goods as his administration signaled it would continue buying Russian oil.

Modi’s government hasn’t given India’s oil refiners instructions to stop buying Russian oil, and no decision has ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he will announce a new Federal Reserve governor and a new jobs data statistician in the coming days, two appointments that may dramatically shape his economic agenda amid global anxiety.

Trump made the comments to reporters Sunday on his way back to the White House from a weekend in Bedminster, New Jersey. He has ...Read more

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Brazil is open to trade talks with Donald Trump but only if his country is treated as an equal to the U.S., reiterating that he won’t bow to political pressure from the U.S. president.

“We want to negotiate. We want to negotiate on equal terms,” Lula said Sunday at an event for his leftist Workers�...Read more

A wildfire burning near Carbondale in Garfield County forced evacuations across the community on Sunday, according to fire officials.

The Ranch at Coulter Creek fire sparked near a subdivision with the same name Sunday morning, north of Panorama Drive, according to an 11:24 a.m. post from the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District.

As of ...Read more

The nine candidates vying to become Detroit's next mayor hit the final stretch of the campaign on Sunday, doing everything they can to reach voters, from hitting local airwaves and knocking on doors to making phone calls and canvassing neighborhoods.

Tuesday's primary will narrow the number of candidates to two who will go head-to-head in the ...Read more

Smoke and grit from hundreds of forest fires have spread across large parts of Canada and the northern U.S., sending air quality across the Midwest and northeast U.S. and Toronto to unhealthy levels.

Air quality deteriorated to moderate in Chicago early Sunday with some areas deemed unhealthy for sensitive groups, and to unhealthy in Milwaukee ...Read more

Democratic lawmakers said they are leaving the state of Texas in an effort to temporarily block Republicans from redrawing its congressional maps — a redistricting initiative pushed by President Donald Trump.

By fleeing, Democrats will leave the state legislature short of the minimum number of lawmakers required to hold votes. They will be ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center continued Sunday to track three systems in the Atlantic with the potential to form into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, it had increased chances for a system off the U.S. East Coast to form while also forecasting a tropical wave to roll off the African ...Read more

The Las Vegas gunman who killed four people in a Manhattan office building housing the NFL’s headquarters before taking his own life had sought medical treatment for debilitating headaches, ESPN reported on Sunday.

Shane Tamura, 27, regularly visited doctors, including a neurologist, and received yearly MRI exams, injections in the back of ...Read more

Lesson No. 1, perhaps, in taking a role in the administration of President Donald Trump: If you’ve previously described yourself in social media posts as a “progressive, Bernie Sanders fan” and a “political liberal, closest to Elizabeth Warren,” best delete those posts if you want to stay employed.

Otherwise, as Bay Area physician and...Read more

By opening the door to a pair of polarizing corporate taxes, Mayor Brandon Johnson could galvanize a progressive base itching to see him deliver on a campaign promise to “make the ultra-rich pay their fair share,” but also infuriate business opponents already set on defeating him in 2027.

Facing a more than $1 billion deficit and having ...Read more

Two groups of people assembled Friday morning on a dirt hill overlooking a freeway.

On one end were more than a dozen individuals in reflective vests. They stood holding shovels and rakes and eyed several mattresses lying on the ground. Closer to the bedding were Maria Garcia, 55, and a man in his 20s. Garcia ignored the crew as she picked up a...Read more

President Donald Trump’s first confirmed nominee for U.S. Attorney is a Miami-Dade judge whose professional background includes poor job evaluations in the office he will now lead.

On Saturday, Judge Jason A. Reding Quiñones secured a 51-41 cloture vote in the U.S. Senate. He will now head the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Florida, ...Read more

Skies over much of Minnesota looked — and smelled — clearer and cleaner Sunday, with the most troublesome air from Canadian wildfires moving east into Wisconsin.

But state and federal air quality monitors still are predicting sections of unhealthy air for people with sensitivity through Monday at noon.

Minneapolis had the fifth worst air ...Read more

Smoke and grit from hundreds of forest fires have spread across large parts of Canada and the northern U.S., sending air quality across the Midwest and northeast U.S. and Toronto to unhealthy levels.

Air quality deteriorated to moderate in Chicago early Sunday with some areas unhealthy for sensitive groups, and to unhealthy in Milwaukee and ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s firing of the chief labor statistician was criticized by her predecessor, who called it an unfounded move that will undermine confidence in a key data set on the U.S. economy.

“This is damaging,” William Beach, whom Trump picked in his first term to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said on CNN’s "State of ...Read more

Billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Yass along with crypto industry donors helped President Donald Trump raise $236 million for his political operation in the first six months of 2025 — an unprecedented sum for a second-term president.

The latest filings to the Federal Election Commission show that the fundraising haul, which includes donations ...Read more

People tend to think about pain as a biological process, says Elizabeth Losin, a biobehavioral health professor at Pennsylvania State University.

“You step on a thumbtack, it sends a message up to your brain and sets off an alarm, and that’s it,” she said in a recent interview.

But people of different genders and races often report ...Read more