Toshiyuki Mimaki was just 3 when he saw the flash from the nuclear weapon that wiped out some 100,000 lives in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. Nearly eight decades later, as a leader of Nihon Hidankyo, a group of fellow atomic bomb survivors that received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, he renewed his plea to […]

Former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign has requested a series of additional security measures, including military assets, in conversations with the White House and the Secret Service because of continuing threats to his safety, according to four people briefed on the matter. The conversations came amid suggestions from some Trump aides that they felt hamstrung […]

Germany’s governing coalition wants to strengthen the Federal Constitutional Court to better protect it from political influence, partly as a safeguard against the growing strength of the . Sections of the far-right party have been deemed a threat to the constitutional order by intelligence agencies, and fears grew when members of the AfD threatened to use the […]

For the first time, the Democratic National Committee will invest in an advertising campaign dedicated entirely to LGBTQ publications in large metropolitan areas and several key battleground states. The DNC will roll out the ad campaign, worth at least $100,000, on Friday morning in 16 publications across eight states, and it is estimated to reach […]

TD Bank was slapped with a penalty that’ll leave its pockets $3 billion lighter. Combined, the penalties are the largest-ever money-laundering fines a bank in the U.S. has had to pay.  The banking institute pleaded guilty to failing to properly track money laundering by members of drug cartels. As a result, TD Bank’s only way […]

The Russo Brothers’ are known for their world-building powers, but the Citadel spy universe they’re designing for Amazon MGM Studios marks a new approach altogether. Whereas the Marvel Cinematic Universe was carefully constructed over multiple movies and many years, Citadel has sped up the whole process for a content-hungry streaming world. Citadel had first emerged […]

Betsy Ross, the sewing heroine of our childhoods, is no longer credited as the creator of the American flag. Historians insist the maker of the flag remains unknown. Disappointing, I know, especially since the American flag, if judged in purely artistic terms, is such a winning object. It has enormous “wall power,” to borrow a […]

Polling experts have criticized the findings of a Pennsylvania election survey which under represented likely voters from Philadelphia. An American Greatness/TIPP survey of 1,079 registered voters in the key battleground state showed Kamala Harris with a 4-point lead over Donald Trump (49 percent to 45) in a head-to-head. Among a smaller sample of 803 likely […]

Apart from “60 Minutes,” most of the interviews on Kamala Harris’s media tour this week — a multiplatform circuit that ran from daytime TV to late-night, satellite to podcast — were not what you would call adversarial. Howard Stern endorsed her. Whoopi Goldberg introduced her as “the next president of the United States.” Stephen Colbert’s […]

Cameroon has banned the media from discussing the health of 91-year-old President Paul Biya, who has not been seen in public since early September. Interior Minister Paul Atanga Nji this week imposed the ban, stating in a letter dated October 9 that “debate in the media” on the president’s health was “strictly prohibited”, and ordering […]