A mochi seller in Kyoto, and many of Japan’s other centuries-old businesses, have endured by putting tradition and stability over profit and growth.

A group of men shouting "Christ is King" and "America First" destroyed a new monolith and replaced it with a wooden cross.

Gebru was technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team.

The party organizer claims the Hungarian anti-LGBTQ politician Jozsef Szajer had planned his own orgy for Dec. 12, but canceled after he was fined for breaking lockdown rules.

The official serving as President Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information about election fraud and other matters she could relay to the White House, three people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press. Heidi Stirrup, an ally of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, was quietly installed at the Justice Department as a White House liaison a few months ago. She was told within the last two weeks to vacate the building after top Justice officials learned of her efforts to collect insider information about ongoing cases and the department’s work on election fraud, the people said.

"Tiger King" Joe Exotic’s attorney said he believes they are close to getting a presidential pardon from President Trump. Eric Love, an attorney for Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldano-Passage, told ABC News that he thinks the pardon is possible as the Trump presidency finishes its final weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. "We are waiting on the pen to hit the paper, we think we are very, very close," Love told the network. A source confirmed to ABC News that the White House has “heard from the Tiger King,” who was requesting a pardon. "You wouldn't believe the amount of calls, some insane, we've gotten,” the source said, describing the different appeals for pardons. The White House did not immediately provide a comment. Maldano-Passage, a star of Netflix’s “Tiger King,” previously submitted an application asking for a pardon in September. He has alleged that prosecutors lied in his case that resulted in a 22-year federal prison sentence for his involvement in a murder-for-hire scheme against fellow “Tiger King” star Carole Baskin. He wrote in a letter to Trump, “If I have ever looked up to anyone it would be you, not because I need you to save my life but because you stand for what you believe no matter what anyone thinks. Love’s comments about Maldano-Passage’s possible pardon come as discussions revolving around pardons have ramped up as Trump’s presidency wanes down. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Trump has talked with advisers about potentially pardoning his three eldest children, his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

In a White House meeting about keeping the Senate with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. Todd C. Young (R-Ind.) and other aides, a discussion about the state took a wild turn when Trump brought up House candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene’s support of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, according to people familiar with the discussion. “Q-an-uhn,” he said, mispronouncing the name of the group, telling those present that it is made up of people who “basically believe in good government.” The room was silent again before Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, leaned forward to say he had never heard it described that way.

When the going gets tough, these ants blow themselves up. Literally.

See when you might be able to get a shot.

Under attack for not reversing Georgia’s presidential vote, its secretary of state mounts a threadbare assault on groups that boost minority voting.

UPS has reportedly told drivers across the country to stop picking up packages from six retailers, including Gap, Nike and Macy’s, as the shipping company attempts to keep up with a record-breaking online shopping s

A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the Sussex sky?

Our article asking why so many players invert their controls provoked a fierce debate that has now caught the attention of researchers into visual perception.

The star of the notorious ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ never planned on being an actor. He ended up becoming the centerpiece of a cultclassic.

At one point, during an exchange with GOP Rep. Steve Johnson, Carone grew animated and began yelling when the lawmaker questioned how her claim that a batch of 30,000 votes counted multiple times wouldn’t be reflected in the poll book. “We’re not seeing the poll book off by 30,000 votes,” Johnson said. “What’d you guys do, take it and do something crazy to it?” Carone fired back. “I’m just saying the numbers are not off by 30,000 votes,” Johnson calmly replied. “I’d say that poll book is off by over 100,000 [votes],” she declared with an air of complete confidence. Then she started lecturing the lawmaker, telling him there were “zero registered voters” in the county’s poll book.

"Just hours after telling people not to fall asleep and crash into poles." << not actually in the article.

The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for mass vaccination. Britain's medicines regulator, the MHRA, says the jab, which offers up to 95% protection against Covid-19 illness, is safe to be rolled out. The first doses are already on their way to the UK, with 800,000 due in the coming days, Pfizer said.

A “return to normal” is a comforting promise to the winners of the world. The impossible yet irresistible pandemic-related question: When will things get back to normal? In a recent interview with the University of Melbourne, Dr. Anthony Fauci attempted to answer the question, saying that if “normal” is getting people back in the movie theaters, restaurants, and stadiums, it could be as late as 2022. But he hedged, “It really depends on what you mean by normal.” So what is normal? Is it just returning to the smoking heap of 2019? If you were then living paycheck to paycheck, are we trying to return you to this hellish budgetary treadmill? What if you were already falling behind on your mortgage, riding the bleeding edge of foreclosure? Or possibly, if you are a scion of Sam Walton and got much wealthier during the pandemic, would a return to normalcy bump you back down the Forbes list? Look at normal long enough, and it begins to look a lot like a comforting word for the winners of the world. The current health crisis is violent, uncaring, and unpredictable, and when it is over, it will be great to no longer worry about killing your parents by breathing on them. But far beyond that, the magnitude and duration of the pain is within our power to control; it takes on specific political dimensions: Will we invest in widespread tracing programs, top up workers’ lost incomes, and make loans available to cities struggling from a drop in tourism? We’ve faced similar situations in the recent past, and looking to them can give us a guide to how uneven a recovery can be, and just how long the effects can last.

Sidney Powell, the conspiracy theory pushing lawyer who formerly represented Donald Trump's legal challenge to the 2020 election results before being fired by the campaign, led a rally-like press conference in Georgia today to protest the state's election results. Supporters of Ms Powell gathered in Atlanta for a "stop the steal" rally. Lin Wood, an Atlanta based attorney and supporter of Mr Trump, joined her and led the crowd in a "lock him up" chant directed at the state's Republican governor, Brian Kemp. At least one supporter at the rally was seen carrying a literal pitchfork.

It’s pretty embarrassing that the left does not accept people like Rahm Emanuel and Neera Tanden because they’re actually super-dee-duper progressive if you ignore their history of thwarting progressive policies at every opportunity.