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Japan Has Millions of Empty Houses. Want to Buy One for $25,000?
When Jaya Thursfield found a house he wanted to buy in Japan a few years ago, friends and family told him to forget it. The place wasn’t worth the trouble, they said. After all, it stood in a forest of shoulder-high weeds after being abandoned about seven years earlier — one of the millions of vacant houses known as akiya, Japanese for “empty house” — throughout the country.
Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back AI Rivals
SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s employees were shocked when they learned in March that South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung was considering replacing Google with Microsoft’s Bing as the default search engine on its devices.
Supreme Court Weighs Clash of Postal Worker’s Sabbath and Sunday Deliveries
LANCASTER, Pa. — On a blustery morning last month, Gerald Groff drove through rolling farmland in Amish country, slowing to pass the occasional horse-drawn buggy and pointing out some of the hundreds of mailboxes that used to mark his postal route.
Boy’s Suicide in Poland Spurs Backlash Against State Media Tactics
SZCZECIN, Poland — As the host of a jaunty morning radio show, Grzegorz Piepke saw it as his job to “make listeners smile” as they prepared for work and avoided talking about Poland’s often venomous political struggles on air.
The End of Faking It in Silicon Valley
SAN FRANCISCO — Faking it is over. That’s the feeling in Silicon Valley, along with some schadenfreude and a pinch of paranoia. Not only has funding dried up for cash-burning startups over the past year, but now, fraud is also in the air, as investors scrutinize startup claims more closely and a tech downturn reveals who has been taking the industry’s “fake it till you make it” ethos too far.
Florida Legislature Passes Six-Week Abortion Ban
MIAMI — Florida lawmakers voted to prohibit abortions after six weeks of pregnancy on Thursday, culminating a rapid effort by elected Republicans and Gov. Ron DeSantis to transform the state into one of the most restrictive in the country.
Tech Consultant Arrested in San Francisco Killing of Cash App Creator
SAN FRANCISCO — Nine days after the fatal, late-night stabbing of Bob Lee triggered a furious outcry over public safety in San Francisco, police said Thursday that they had arrested an acquaintance of the tech executive on suspicion of murder.
In Fox-Dominion Trial, All Eyes Are on the Judge, Too
As Fox News heads to trial to defend itself against a $1.6 billion lawsuit, which could prove a critical gauge of free speech protections in an age of politicized misinformation, the presiding judge faces a high-profile test of his abilities in the middle of a media spectacle.
New York City Welcomes Growing Number of Out-of-State Abortion Patients
When Nancy Davis of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, learned last summer that the fetus she was carrying had a rare and fatal condition, her anguish was compounded by the chaotic legal terrain surrounding the abortion ban in her state. A local abortion clinic had shut down, and her hospital refused to perform the procedure, despite an exception in Louisiana law for pregnancies deemed “medically futile.”
EPA Proposed Rules to Turbocharge Sales of Electric Cars and Trucks
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration Wednesday proposed the nation’s most ambitious climate regulations to date, two plans designed to ensure two-thirds of new passenger cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the United States are all-electric by 2032.
After Texas Ruling, Democratic States Move to Stockpile Abortion Pills
The governor of Massachusetts has asked the University of Massachusetts to purchase a one-year supply of the abortion pill mifepristone, and issued an executive order shielding pharmacists who stock the drug, abortion providers and patients from criminal and civil liability.
U.S.-Born Children, Too, Were Separated From Parents at the Border
LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration intentionally separated thousands of migrant children from their parents at the southern border in the spring of 2018, an aggressive attempt to discourage family crossings that caused lasting trauma and drew widespread condemnation.
White House Suggests Colorado River Cuts Be Spread Evenly Among States
WASHINGTON — After months of fruitless negotiations between the states that depend on the shrinking Colorado River, the Biden administration on Tuesday proposed to put aside legal precedent and save what’s left of the river by evenly cutting water allotments, reducing the water delivered to California, Arizona and Nevada by as much as one-quarter.
What We Know About the Louisville, Kentucky, Bank Shooting
A 25-year-old man shot and killed five colleagues Monday at the downtown bank in Louisville, Kentucky, where he worked, police said. Eight others were wounded, two of them critically. The gunman, who used a rifle and livestreamed the attack, was killed by police after exchanging fire with them.
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