Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, known for his 1995 apology to Asian victims of Japan's wartime aggression, died Friday at 101 in a hospital in his hometown of Oita, party leader Mizuho Fukushima said. The ex-Japan Socialist Party chief led a coalition from 1994 to 1996, faced the Kobe...
In a nearly two-and-a-half-hour call timed before Donald Trump's meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, the Kremlin cast the eighth Trump-Putin conversation in eight months as "positive," while pushing to head off US talk of supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. Vladimir Putin argued the weapons would not alter the battlefield but would...
A U.S.-led coordination center in Israel is set to begin operating within days to oversee Gaza’s ceasefire, security, aid and rebuilding, U.S. officials said. Led initially by an unnamed three-star general with a foreign deputy, the center sits just northeast of Gaza at a non-military site open to international partners....
Sofie Richie Grainge is expecting her second child with husband Elliot Grainge, announcing the news on Instagram Thursday, Oct. 16. The 27-year-old model shared a mirror selfie showing the silhouette of her bare bump, captioning it, “On my way to launch these babies” alongside a nod to @srgatelier. The couple,...
South Park’s season 28 premiere spotlighted a new schoolyard fixation: kids murmuring 'six, seven'—a phrase even a fictionalized Peter Thiel repeats as part of a secret South Park Elementary cult. The meme began with rapper Skrilla’s December 2024 track 'Doot Doot,' then exploded on TikTok via edits featuring 6-foot-7 LaMelo...
Evan McPherson’s 36-yard field goal with seven seconds left lifted the Bengals past the Steelers, 33-31, at Paycor Stadium, capping an eight-play drive sparked by a deep Joe Flacco strike to Tee Higgins. Flacco, nine days into his Bengals stint, threw for 342 yards and three touchdowns, repeatedly finding Ja’Marr...
Indiana handed football coach Curt Cignetti an eight-year contract worth at least $92.8 million, signaling ambitions beyond its basketball reputation. The deal, averaging about $11.6 million annually through Nov. 30, 2033, rewards a 17-2 start that includes the program’s first College Football Playoff, AP Coach of the Year honors and...
Two Californians with mpox may mark the first U.S. cases from local transmission of the clade I virus, officials said. Long Beach confirmed one case via state lab testing; Los Angeles County reported a second. Both patients were hospitalized and are now recovering at home. Authorities say public risk is...
A week and a half after arriving in Cincinnati, 40-year-old Joe Flacco threw for 342 yards and three touchdowns to lift the Bengals past the Steelers 33-31. Ja'Marr Chase set a franchise record with 16 catches for 161 yards and a score, while Tee Higgins' late deep grab and smart...
Indiana University ordered the student-run Indiana Daily Student to stop printing new editions and dismissed its student media director and paper adviser, Jim Rodenbush, prompting student editors to call the moves censorship. Editors said administrators had barred news content from print and, after Rodenbush resisted, eliminated print entirely; they published...
