Japan’s favorite snowy mountain finally has some snow
Mount Fuji looms large as Japan’s tallest mountain and one of its most enduring national symbols. Its snowy peak has inspired countless paintings and poems over the centuries, and more recently been featured on travel brochures and merchandise.
Trump claims ‘powerful mandate’ after Fox News projects he has won US presidency
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Republican Donald Trump claimed victory in the 2024 presidential contest after Fox News projected that he had defeated Democrat Kamala Harris, which would cap a stunning political comeback four years after he left the White House.
Despite bomb threats and disinformation, a fairly smooth election
Americans navigated a fraught voting landscape on Election Day as a largely smooth voting process early in the day went on to be buffeted by bomb threats, widespread disinformation and unabated anxiety over the election system.
The science that makes baseball mud ‘magical’
If you looked closely at the baseballs used in the World Series last month, you would notice that they were covered in a mysterious brown substance.
Behind the election anger may be something else: Lingering COVID grief
LOS ANGELES — When Americans voted in the last presidential election, people were profoundly isolated from their friends and loved ones. Tens of millions of schoolchildren were still learning virtually, and office workers were hunkered down at home, experiencing the world through their smartphones and laptops.
A grim Trump and an upbeat Harris end the race hitting opposite notes
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris closed out their campaigns Monday in starkly different moods: The former president, appearing drained at arenas that were not filled, claimed that the country was on the brink of ruin, while the vice president promised a more united future as energized supporters chanted alongside her, “We’re not going back.”
An angry Spain, still reeling from floods, faces more rain
MADRID — As families along Spain’s Mediterranean coast took to the country’s airwaves to plead for help finding lost loved ones in the aftermath of last week’s devastating floods, the government Monday deployed hundreds more troops to help with the search for victims, according to emergency authorities.
Preppers await the end. But first, the election.
DEWEY-HUMBOLDT, Ariz. — The meeting of 19 or so Arizonans in a squat Baptist church to discuss their preparedness for society’s possible collapse was just one event in Mike Fendt’s weekly schedule.
Bookstores are setting up readers on ‘blind dates’ with books
Never judge a book by its cover — even if the cover doesn’t say much at all.
Trump says he may move against some vaccinations and fluoride in water
Former President Donald Trump said Sunday that he expected Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to have a “big role” in a second administration, and acknowledged the possibility that he could take action against two major public health successes — vaccines and the fluoridation of water — if he won the presidency.
At women’s march in Washington, hope that they will hold off Trump
WASHINGTON — Nearly eight years after the first Women’s March in Washington demonstrated a furious backlash to the election of Donald Trump, thousands of women gathered again in the capital and across the country Saturday, this time with the hope that Vice President Kamala Harris would triumph at the polls and prevent his return to the White House.
Harris and Trump battle to the wire in swing states, Times/Siena polls find
The presidential race appears to be hurtling toward a photo finish, with the final set of polls by The New York Times and Siena College finding Vice President Kamala Harris showing new strength in North Carolina and Georgia as former President Donald Trump erases her lead in Pennsylvania and maintains his advantage in Arizona.
A vivid Trump-Harris contrast in campaign’s grueling final days
It was the final Sunday of the campaign for president, and Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were continuing to race across battleground states in their search for support. But in message and demeanor, Harris, the Democrat, and Trump, the Republican, could not have been more different.
Weary, troubled and nervous: Americans flood the early vote
An anxious America, weary from a vitriolic campaign season and worried about the state of the nation’s democracy, is voting with determination, with roughly 75 million people having cast ballots in the early voting period.
Iran’s supreme leader threatens Israel with ‘crushing response’ to strikes
TEL AVIV, Israel — Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday threatened “a crushing response” to Israeli strikes on his country, as the Pentagon said it would deploy additional resources to the region in the coming months.
Kemi Badenoch becomes first Black woman to lead Britain’s Conservative Party
LONDON — Britain’s Conservative Party announced Saturday that it had selected Kemi Badenoch as its leader, putting a charismatic, often combative, right-wing firebrand at the helm of a party that suffered a crushing election defeat in July.
Just how online was this election?
Perhaps more so than in any presidential election that has come before it, the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump has unfolded online.
Amid flood cleanup in Spain, residents try to make sense of the disaster
CHIVA, Spain — Mari Luz Sánchez’s body lay on top of an overturned refrigerator in a corner of her kitchen when her family found her. A wave of water in the village of Chiva, in southeastern Spain, had deposited her there after devastating flooding across the region Tuesday night.
Behind a wall of trees, archaeologists discover a Maya city
East of the town of Dos Lagunas, past the major highway cutting through Mexico’s south, the forest rises up in a dense wall of grasping roots, spindly branches and veils of brown and green.
For Ohtani, that’s one World Series title down and ‘nine more’ to go
NEW YORK — When Shohei Ohtani was a sophomore in high school, his baseball coach at Hanamaki Higashi High School introduced him to a method of self-improvement called the Harada method.
