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TOKYO — As Japan tries to placate President Donald Trump amid contentious trade talks, officials may be eyeing an icon of American manufacturing that has virtually no presence there: The Ford F-150 pickup truck.Trump, who is visiting the key U.S. ally next week as part of his first trip to Asia since returning to office, has long criticized the lack of American vehicles sold in Japan, citing what he believes are non-tariff barriers.Japanese auto brands such as Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi and Subaru are ubiquitous in the United States, where Japan exported over 1.37 million vehicles last year, according to the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Bernie Sanders praised President Donald Trump’s immigration policy during a recent appearance on The Tim Dillon Show, saying Trump “did a better job” securing the border than President Biden and urging Democrats to return to enforcement-focused policy.”So long as we have nation-states, you’ve got to have borders,” Sanders said. “If you don’t have any borders, then you don’t have a nation.” He added pointedly, “Trump did a better job. I don’t like Trump, you know, but we should have a secure border and it ain’t that hard to do. Biden didn’t do…

Vande Bharat In Black Coming Soon? A video showing a sleek black-coloured Vande Bharat Express has gone viral on social media, with many users claiming it to be the upcoming rake featuring modern facilities. The train in the black livery shown in the video has drawn widespread attention for its striking appearance, reminiscent of the classic Rajdhani Express design with its large windows and aerodynamic finish. However, fact-checks reveal that the viral video is AI-generated and not an official design or prototype of any new Vande Bharat train. Currently, the Vande Bharat Express operates in two colour variants — the…

Forgive me if I’ve mentioned him before, but at moments like this I remember a news editor I worked for as a young reporter at the BBC. When it came to the interests of our audience, he said, there was a key fact to bear in mind: “The two most boring words in the English language are ‘Northern Ireland’.”It was an attitude with a long history. In 1924, Viscount Cranbourne, the fifth Marquess of Salisbury, mused that the average English voter has “little interest in, and less understanding of, Irish affairs”. This week brought some evidence that, 101 years later,…

A boy who swallowed up to 100 high-powered magnets purchased online has undergone major surgery to remove them. After four days of stomach pain, the 13-year-old boy was admitted to Tauranga Hospital on New Zealand’s North Island, where doctors discovered the magnets had joined together to form four chains inside his intestines.Surgeons extracted the magnets and removed parts of the boy’s damaged intestines, according to a report by doctors at the hospital, published Friday in the New Zealand Medical Journal.The boy, who was not identified in the report, had swallowed “approximately 80–100 5x2mm high-power neodymium magnets” a week prior to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! While President Donald Trump’s proposal to import more beef from Argentina is billed by the administration as a way to bring down prices for American consumers, critics say it misses the real issue driving costs at the grocery store: corporate concentration in the U.S. meatpacking industry.Four corporations — Tyson, JBS, Cargill and National Beef — anchor the U.S. beef supply chain, with pricing power that reaches from pasture to plate. As a result, the gap between what producers are paid for cattle and what consumers spend on beef has remained wide, a…

The Tata Group, one of India’s largest and most respected business conglomerates, is facing growing internal differences over whether its parent company, Tata Sons, should be listed on the stock market. Tata Sons is the unlisted holding company that controls the Tata Group’s vast network of businesses — including Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services, and Air India. According to its 2024–25 annual report, it holds stakes in 355 subsidiaries, 39 joint ventures, and 48 associate companies, and received Rs 36,149 crore in dividends from them last year, reported Mint Because Tata Sons is unlisted, its shareholders cannot easily…

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The skies above Caerphilly may have matched the turquoise of Reform UK but it was the green and yellow of Plaid Cymru that dominated the valleys town on Friday morning.The Welsh nationalists trounced their opponents with a hefty 47% of the vote in a Senedd byelection that was framed by many as a potential “canary in the coalmine” moment for Welsh politics.Reform failed to live up to the hype and came second with 36% and Labour’s vote – in a constituency it has held for decades – collapsed to a paltry 11%.It had been expected to be closer between Plaid…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York Attorney General Letitia James will appear in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, Friday morning to be arraigned on a two-count indictment stemming from statements she allegedly made about the nature of a second home she purchased in 2020.James’s arraignment is the latest in a string of prosecutions brought against the president’s perceived political foes, despite objections from career prosecutors — some of whom have since been fired or resigned.James was indicted on two federal counts of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. The indictment stems from her…