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29+ min ago (624+ words) China has marked the anniversary of the 1937 massacre by Japanese soldiers, as tensions soar over Taiwan. China has held a low-key memorial ceremony for the Nanjing Massacre, as a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Tokyo over Taiwan continues to simmer. President Xi Jinping did not attend the ceremony on Saturday commemorating the 1937 attack, in which China says Imperial Japan's troops slaughtered 300,000 people in the eastern city of Nanjing. A post-World War II Allied tribunal put the death toll at 142,000, but some conservative Japanese politicians and scholars have denied that a massacre took place at all. China and Japan have long sparred over their painful history. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has infuriated Beijing after her remarks last month in which she projected that a hypothetical Chinese attack on the self-governed island of Taiwan could trigger a military response from Japan....

37+ min ago (650+ words) President Trump's pledge to pardon Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines, touched off a furious new battle on Friday over the fate of perhaps the last high-profile 2020 election denier still behind bars," the New York Times reports. Democratic leaders in Colorado dismissed the pardon as an empty attempt to bully a Democratic state into freeing one of the president's political allies. They argued that Mr. Trump had no legal power to overturn Ms. Peters' conviction in state court." Former President Joe Biden has raised only a small fraction of the money needed to construct a presidential library, leaving uncertainty about when a library might be built and its" White House pressure to ramp up deportations has sparked rising tension and finger-pointing inside the Department of Homeland Security, with the agency's secretary, Kristi Noem,…...

45+ min ago (581+ words) Donald Trump recently told reporters he'd have "no problem" releasing video of US strikes off the Venezuelan coast where two survivors clinging to the shipwreck were shown no quarter " executions that violated federal law, the US Code on War Crimes, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice prohibiting murder. But when asked about the video three days later, Trump denied ever agreeing to release it, claiming, "You said that, I didn't say that. This is ABC fake news," before pivoting to "whatever Pete Hegseth decides" to release to the media will be fine with him. It was a safe punt. The Secretary of Defense has fought media access to the Pentagon like no secretary before him. Hegseth will keep spinning his "kill everyone" strikes, his Signalgate publication of war plans, and every other military crime he can get away with…...

45+ min ago (113+ words) 101 East investigates Catholic exorcisms in the Philippines and their impact on the faithful and the vulnerable. In the predominantly Catholic nation of the Philippines, the demand for exorcisms is booming. For believers, the religious practice involves priests expelling evil spirits from people and places believed to be possessed. Filipino exorcists say there's been a surge in cases, and they're engaged in a spiritual war. But health professionals warn exorcisms can be dangerous, with the risk of mental and physical health issues being misdiagnosed as spiritual problems. 101 East gains exclusive access inside the world of Catholic exorcisms in the Philippines and investigates their impact on the faithful and the vulnerable....

1+ hour, 10+ min ago (132+ words) The daily crossword from The Week A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day " and the best features from TheWeek.com Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. The daily codeword puzzle from The Week The daily medium sudoku puzzle from The Week The daily hard sudoku puzzle from The Week The daily crossword from The Week A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day " and the best features from TheWeek.com Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. The daily codeword puzzle from The Week The daily medium sudoku puzzle from The Week The daily hard sudoku puzzle from The Week The daily crossword from The Week...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago (52+ words) The best movies, books, TV shows, albums, jokes, and podcasts of 2025. Holiday gift guides for kids, coffee nerds, food lovers, nostalgists, tech enthusiasts, and your host. When an Ivy League school turned against a student. How to cycle like a Dutchman. The day the dinosaurs died. The brothers behind Warner Bros....

1+ hour, 15+ min ago (52+ words) The best movies, books, TV shows, albums, jokes, and podcasts of 2025. Holiday gift guides for kids, coffee nerds, food lovers, nostalgists, tech enthusiasts, and your host. When an Ivy League school turned against a student. How to cycle like a Dutchman. The day the dinosaurs died. The brothers behind Warner Bros....

1+ hour, 15+ min ago (583+ words) Karen Gleason, a veteran reporter, observes the border wall that was expanded by Governor Greg Abbott to deter the inflow of migrants. It does not quell migrants, nor does it resolve the political divide of Del Rio, where Gleason lives.Sara Hylton/Amplifier Del Rio sits on the banks of the Rio Grande River in Val Verde County in southwestern Texas. The small border city of 34,000 people has been at the center of the migrant crisis, most notably when thousands of Haitian migrants made headlines in September 2021 as they sheltered under a bridge outside of town. This crisis was just one of several incidents during which residents of Del Rio and surrounding communities received a slew of misinformation and disinformation. The Del Rio News-Herald, a longstanding daily newspaper, closed in November 2020, making the city part of a growing trend of…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago (297+ words) How often does one put thought into what a meal from McDonald's is worth? Sure, it may be cheaper than most other places, but it doesn't mean it's affordable to everyone, especially with inflation plaguing several fast food places in recent years. One mom and daughter just experienced this firsthand. Dayana, who goes by @dayajiselle on TikTok, captures a bittersweet moment and uploads it to TikTok. The short eight-second clip now has 4.6 million views and over a thousand comments. Now, several viewers are angry about the prices, but not many mention the difference between the countries selling them. Newsweek sent out reporters in the two countries to compare taste and variety. Aside from the many comments about those, they also compared the prices. Most of the top comments came from viewers blasting McDonald's pricing. One viewer says, "Them not making…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago (52+ words) The best movies, books, TV shows, albums, jokes, and podcasts of 2025. Holiday gift guides for kids, coffee nerds, food lovers, nostalgists, tech enthusiasts, and your host. When an Ivy League school turned against a student. How to cycle like a Dutchman. The day the dinosaurs died. The brothers behind Warner Bros....