The Los Angeles Chargers entered the 2026 NFL season with legitimate playoff expectations. With Justin Herbert leading the offense and Jim Harbaugh running the sideline, there was plenty of reason to believe this team could compete in the AFC. Instead, the Chargers have become one of the biggest…
Donald Trump is inventing polling victories for Republicans as his party faces a midterm wipeout, claiming his crude comments about Sen. Jon Husted’s backside sent the Ohio senator’s numbers soaring by 12 points. At an October 12 rally in Youngstown, Trump described sizing up Husted, a former…
Filmmaker Taika Waititi has excoriated critics in a social media post after the box-office failure of his latest film, Klara and the Sun . “This Halloween, let’s spare a thought for those sad lost souls who couldn’t achieve their dreams of becoming artists, and thus settled and became critics,”…
Republicans are already quietly blaming Donald Trump ahead of the midterms, according to a new report. America goes to the polls on Tuesday, and much of the discussion has centered on a blue wave that could wipe out one or both of the GOP’s congressional majorities. Yet despite several lawmakers…
Tokyo, Nov. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s National Disaster Management Agency should play a key role in building institutional expertise and developing specialized personnel on disaster preparedness and responses, former Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said. The country needs to make the agency “capable of…
Tokyo, Nov. 2 (Jiji Press)–The head of Japan’s new National Disaster Management Agency, which was launched Monday, urged people to stockpile food and secure furniture as part of efforts to strengthen disaster preparations in normal times. At a press conference, Goshi Hosono, who became the first…
Unspoken emotional wounds linger throughout “Between Us,” Japanese director Matsumura Shingo’s new film playing in the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Nippon Cinema Now section, its strand for Japanese films. The film follows Makoto and Kasumi, childhood best friends who drift apart after an…
Tokyo, Nov. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japan launched the National Disaster Management Agency on Monday to strengthen its preparedness for possible huge natural disasters, such as a temblor in the Tokyo metropolitan area and an eruption of Mount Fuji. The agency, set to serve as the government’s command center…