TOKYO: The character "kuma" – meaning bear in Japanese – was chosen as "kanji" of 2025 following a year defined by a surge in ...

The kanji for “bear” (熊, kuma) was chosen as the single most representative character symbolic of the social mood in Japan this year, the Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation said ...

More than 620,000 miles of barbed-wire fences divide the American West. They keep cattle contained. They’re expensive to ...

Japan is lifting a megaquake advisory for the country’s northeastern coast, a week after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck ...

Japan has issued a megaquake advisory after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture on the main island.

Japan has issued a tsunami advisory after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook the country’s northeast. The quake occurred off the east coast of Aomori prefecture, in the north of Honshu, the main ...

A woman was sentenced Thursday on charges connected to a drug distribution ring across multiple counties in Western North Carolina. The Department of Justice ...

A federal appeals court has blocked the immediate release of hundreds of immigrants detained during a Chicago-area ...

Closing arguments are expected Friday in the murder trial of Brian Walshe in connection with the disappearance of his wife ...