After deadly tremors a decade ago, Kumamoto built earthquake-resistant buildings and even trained locals in search and rescue.

Mr. Ogles, a two-term congressman, had held off primary threats before, despite controversy. But on Thursday, Charlie Hatcher, a former state agriculture commissioner, delivered an upset.

The penalty, imposed by a state judge, is on top of a $375 million fine ordered by a jury that found Meta misled users about the safety of its platforms.

The constitutional right against self-incrimination has been invoked on several occasions during high-profile — and contentious — hearings.

Senator Marsha Blackburn easily beat two Republican rivals and is now favored to become the state’s first female governor after the November elections.

The orders come after the Supreme Court ruled June 30 that President Trump’s previous efforts to end birthright citizenship were unconstitutional.

Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.

Two Republican lawmakers have endorsed a primary opponent of Representative Cory Mills, who has been accused of assault and is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee.

The U.S. is bolstering the yen, as it did with the Argentine peso. The reasons are not solely economic.

Canada’s prime minister laughed off Trump’s description of Canada but suggested that trade talks between the two countries are acrimonious.

What exactly is the project of the insurgent left all about?

New Jersey improperly added as many as 6,600 noncitizens to its voter rolls. Those people could now be forced out of the country.

The administration will impose a minimum import price for polysilicon, a key component for semiconductors and solar panels, as well as tariffs for products made with the material.

Dr. Anthony Fauci had refused to answer questions at a hearing last week, invoking the Fifth Amendment. Republicans argued he wasn’t entitled to that protection because he had a presidential pardon.

For an audience that grew to more than a million followers, she challenged assumptions about how people with serious illnesses should look and live.

The Kentucky Republican has been absent from Congress for nearly two months after a health episode. He said he would continue recovering from home.

While administration officials say the changes will save money by lifting onerous requirements, advocates fear the anti-poverty program will be gutted.

The Trump administration is sending back record numbers of Vietnamese, Laotians and Hmong. Many came to the United States as young war refugees and later committed crimes.

Americans have been taken with scams for years. Now, the word is being used for any system that ends with somebody profiting at their expense.

A brutal summer has exposed how much Britain, France, Spain and other European countries are under pressure from forces largely out of their control.