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The 92-year-old leader, who has been in power since 1982, is seeking an eighth term in polls that open on Sunday.

In 2013, venture capitalist Tim Draper launched a “Six Californias” ballot initiative. The upshot was that with some 40 million people, more than the population of the 20 smallest states combined, California was too big, too diverse, to be “efficiently” governed. So why not, Draper argued, break it up into six new “startups,” a.k.a. states? […]

Perhaps the most brazenly illegal action of President Donald Trump’s second term so far took place on his first day in office: an order to deny birthright citizenship to thousands of newborns. Within months, the question had reached the Supreme Court. But rather than affirm the right to birthright citizenship, which is plainly enshrined in […]

The Trump administration has moved to expand its deployment of military forces to Democrat-led cities nationwide.

The LDP, which has ruled Japan largely uninterrupted since World War II, put Sanae Takaichi on track to be the country’s first female prime minister.

The prime minister quit following widespread criticism over his new cabinet, which was largely unchanged from that of the prior government.

The opposition may yet get him to cut a deal on extending health care subsidies. Limits to his spending power are more out of reach.

The high court has already ruled in the president's favor with some interim decisions.