Residents are protesting a planned housing facility for foreign workers, exposing the conflict between Japan’s need for labor and anxieties over immigration. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/business/japan-foreign-workers-hokkaido.html Author : River Akira Davis, Kiuko Notoya and Kentaro Takahashi Publish date : 2025-10-04 08:26:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
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A man was fatally shot near Rhode Island Avenue metro station. The slaying is the city’s first in more than a week, amid a decline in homicides. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/10/03/crime-homicide-dc-trump-metro/ Author : Martin Weil, Scott Clement Publish date : 2025-10-04 02:53:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
50 Cent wasted no time mocking Sean "Diddy" Combs after the music mogul was sentenced Friday to 50 months in prison on federal prostitution charges.The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, posted on X not long after Diddy's sentence was revealed, offering to take his spot at an upcoming speaking engagement. "Hey to whoever was booking Diddy for speaking engagement. I heard he won’t be able to make it, 🤷 I’m available! 😆" 50 Cent wrote, including a link to his website, G-Unit Brands.He was likely referencing speaking engagements that Diddy had booked for next week in Miami, which the
Hamas said it would release the Israeli hostages but wanted to negotiate elements of the Trump plan. Later, in a video, President Trump said, “Everybody was unified in wanting this war to end and seeing peace in the Middle East, and we’re very close to achieving that.” Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/03/world/hamas-hostages-israel-gaza Author : The New York Times Publish date : 2025-10-04 05:54:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
The WNBA commissioner has been under fire all week since Lynx star Napheesa Collier called her out during exit interviews. Engelbert addressed the controversy before Game 1. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/10/03/wnba-cathy-engelbert-napheesa-collier/ Author : Kareem Copeland Publish date : 2025-10-04 02:33:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Democrats want to remove a provision of Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA) before reopening the government, but Republicans argue the line item they want removed is allowing California to use a "loophole" to draw down funds from the federal government to help pay for the state's ballooning cost of healthcare for illegal immigrants.The White House released a memo on Wednesday during the first day of the government shutdown fight indicating Democrats want to repeal Trump reforms in his "big, beautiful bill" that aimed to close this alleged backdoor tactic. However, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office and left-leaning health
A man in a vehicle displaying a handwritten sign referring to President Trump refused to exit his car as the authorities shut down surrounding streets. The man was taken into custody. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/la-city-hall-car.html Author : Shawn Hubler and Jesus Jiménez Publish date : 2025-10-04 02:49:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
The judge ordered Combs to pay a fine of $500,000 and imposed five years of supervised release once he completes his sentence. His defense is planning to appeal. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2025/10/03/diddy-sentenced-prison-time-sean-combs/ Author : Anne Branigin, Samantha Chery, Amber Ferguson, Shayna Jacobs Publish date : 2025-10-03 23:35:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Friday signed "Iryna's Law," which increases checks on criminals getting out on bail and prohibits cashless bail for some violent crimes and most repeat offenders following the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte light-rail train in August. Stein, a Democrat, has said he doesn’t like every part of the bill that was passed by the Republican-controlled state Legislature, which also looks to restart executions in North Carolina, but he signed it because it "alerts the judiciary to take a special look at people who may pose unusual risks of violence before determining
Many of the slots would go to white South Africans and others facing “unjust discrimination,” according to people familiar with the matter and documents obtained by The New York Times. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/politics/trump-refugee-admissions-south-africa.html Author : Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and Miriam Jordan Publish date : 2025-10-04 01:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Advice columnist Carolyn Hax answers your questions about the strange train we call life. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/10/03/live-chat-carolyn-hax/ Author : Carolyn Hax Publish date : 2025-10-03 16:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
With Washington, D.C., gridlocked over the government shutdown, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took his case to social media Friday, sharing a viral meme video that uses the "f--- around and find out (FAFO)" graph to take aim at Democrats holding out for healthcare provisions in the spending deal.The video, which Duffy shared on X, splices together quotes from Democrats related to the shutdown and a viral video of a man explaining the FAFO graph on a classroom white board."All right, today we're going to talk about how we can find out, how much we can find out and what it
The company said it had closed its remaining 89 stores this week after struggling for years to stay in business and filing for bankruptcy protection twice. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/business/rite-aid-closes-stores-bankruptcy.html Author : Jin Yu Young Publish date : 2025-10-03 22:14:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
She interviewed world leaders for The Post’s Opinions section, maintaining a longtime connection to the paper that was once run by her mother, Katharine Graham. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/09/29/lally-weymouth-dead-washington-post/ Author : Harrison Smith Publish date : 2025-10-03 21:09:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Police in Michigan released body camera video from officers who responded to the shooting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, eventually killing the gunman.Thomas Jacob Sanford is accused of killing four people and injuring eight at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan, during Sunday service. Authorities say he rammed his truck into the building and opened fire, setting fire to the church while services were going on.The Grand Blanc Township Police Department provided Fox News Digital with body camera video from officers who responded to the shooting. The video shows several
It was the fourth strike in the Trump administration’s legally disputed campaign targeting suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/politics/hegseth-military-boat-venezuela.html Author : Charlie Savage Publish date : 2025-10-03 19:41:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Balin Miller, 23, was an emerging star in the climbing community, and his achievements included solo ascents on some of the world’s toughest alpine routes. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/10/03/yosemite-climber-balin-miller-dies/ Author : Andrew Jeong Publish date : 2025-10-03 12:11:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Keith Urban stepped back into the spotlight just days after the curtain dropped on his 19-year marriage to Nicole Kidman.In his first concert since Kidman filed for divorce, the country superstar took the stage in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 2 with a show full of surprises – one being the absence of Maggie Baugh, a guitarist for Urban who has been thrust into the narrative of his split from Kidman.Us Weekly shared the news of Baugh's absence. It's unclear if Baugh was scheduled to perform with Urban during the performance in Pennsylvania. MAGGIE BAUGH: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT KEITH URBAN'S GUITAR
The actress joined Spike Lee, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal and others in reviving the Committee for the First Amendment, a group that her father, Henry Fonda, was a member of in the 1940s. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/arts/jane-fonda-henry-fonda-free-speech.html Author : Matt Stevens Publish date : 2025-10-03 16:51:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Sarah Mullally, previously the bishop of London, is the first woman to serve as spiritual leader of the Church of England in its nearly 500-year history. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/03/archbishop-canterbury-first-woman-england/ Author : Karla Adam Publish date : 2025-10-03 17:07:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Friday the U.S. military conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations traveling off the coast of Venezuela, killing four men aboard.No U.S. forces were harmed in the USSOUTHCOM operation, which was ordered by President Donald Trump, according to Hegseth."The strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics - headed to America to poison our people," Hegseth wrote in an X post. "Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics,
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu ruled out using a constitutional tool that would avoid a full parliamentary vote, hoping for compromise among divided lawmakers. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/world/europe/france-prime-minister-parliament-budget.html Author : Aurelien Breeden Publish date : 2025-10-03 14:56:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Trump promised “all HELL ... will break out” against Hamas if the group does not abide by the deadline to accept his plan. Source link : https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/03/trump-gaza-peace-deal-ultimatum/ Author : Patrick Svitek Publish date : 2025-10-03 14:51:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Federal Judge Michael H. Simon, the husband of Democratic Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon, has recused himself from a case involving a legal challenge against the Trump administration's move to call Oregon National Guard troops into federal service.Simon, who was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon by President Barack Obama, was initially assigned to preside over the case that the state of Oregon and the city of Portland lodged against President Donald Trump, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Department of War, the Department of Homeland Security, and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.But a court filing for
Officials said that one of the men killed at the Heaton Park Congregation synagogue in northwestern England had been hit by police gunfire. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/world/europe/uk-manchester-synagogue-attack.html Author : Lizzie Dearden and Stephen Castle Publish date : 2025-10-03 12:18:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.