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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi with President Trump on Thursday in the Oval Office. “Who knows better about surprise than Japan?” Trump said, turning toward a visibly tense Takaichi, seated next to him. “Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?”AdvertisementThe joke hung in the air. In 2016, President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scattered petals together on the waters of Pearl Harbor to honor the more than 2,400 killed in the attack. AdvertisementBy comparison, the Japanese prime minister’s summit in Washington was mild.

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Members of the two largest unions representing teachers and nonteaching staff rally Wednesday at Molina Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles. United Teachers Los Angeles and Local 99 of SEIU announced April 14 as the strike date if no deal is reached before then. Los Angeles school officials defended their contract offers Thursday, saying “nobody wants a strike” — a day after the district’s two largest unions set April 14 as a strike date if no agreement is reached. It would mean more than 60,000 essential district workers — teachers, counselors, nurses, bus drivers, janitors and cafeteria workers — would walk off the job. The other union participating in the rally was Associated Administrators of Los Angeles, which represents about 3,000 principals, assistant principals and middle managers.

About 1 in 10 Americans who were enrolled in an ACA plan last year now have no health coverage, according to surveys by the health care research nonprofit KFF. AdvertisementThe bigger subsidies dramatically expanded Obamacare marketplace enrollment, which went from less than 10 million people in 2021 to around 22 million last year. As the expiration of the expanded subsidies loomed last fall, Democrats refused to vote for government funding legislation unless Republicans agreed to another extension of the subsidies — resulting in a six-week government shutdown. A group of moderate Senate Democrats eventually caved in exchange for the Senate holding a doomed vote to extend the extra subsidies. AdvertisementA handful of moderate and populist Republicans broke with the party, saying it would hurt them politically to let the health insurance subsidies expire.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON — The federal government decided Thursday not to seek charges against Aliya Rahman, the Minneapolis woman who was arrested and dragged out of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in February for standing up, Rahman’s lawyer told HuffPost. “The government did the right thing today when it ultimately decided not to file any criminal charges against Aliya,” Jessica Gingold, senior counsel at the MacArthur Justice Center and Rahman’s attorney, said in a statement. Advertisement“Aliya should never have been arrested in the first place — she committed no crime and did nothing wrong,” said Gingold. Officers were aggressive enough with her that she had to be taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Capitol Police said Rahman was arrested for “demonstrating,” which can carry a sentence of up to six months in prison.

endorsed Graham Platner in the competitive Maine Democratic primary to decide who will take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November. Warren’s endorsement is a significant boost for Platner, whose chief rival in the crowded Democratic primary, Gov. In a video statement posted by Platner’s campaign, Warren touted Platner’s blue-collar bona fides and military background. As she did in her video, Warren highlighted Platner’s “fighter” style. Platner is the sixth Senate candidate Warren has endorsed this cycle in a competitive primary, following fellow Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, Lt. Gov.

President Donald Trump's staff posted images from a dignified transfer for six crew members who died in his war against Iran to social media sites. According to the White House, the families did not want news media present. In two others posted to the White House Flickr account, a transfer case is visible as airmen load it into a van. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told HuffPost Thursday, “The families did not agree to press. Kelly also later confirmed that Trump referred to American service members who died in wars as “suckers” and “losers.”Advertisement

It clears the way for the U.S. Mint to begin production on the coin, whose size and denomination are still under discussion. A proposed design featuring President Trump posted online by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. The White House and the Mint did not immediately respond to electronic and telephone requests for comment. Some commissioners noted Trump’s fondness for big things as they advocated for the largest size coin. She works in the White House as a special assistant to the president and deputy director of the Oval Office.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wants to give the 1% yet another tax break — but is it even legal? Legislation to enact the indexation of capital gains taxes was introduced in 1978, 1983, 1994, 1997 and 1998. Because it’s only the rich who have any significant exposure to the capital gains tax. As Ed Kleinbard, the late taxation guru at USC, was fond of pointing out, the capital gains tax is our only truly voluntary tax. By the time they are ready, the opportunity has passed.”The Republican fixation on relieving their rich patrons of the burden of capital gains taxes isn’t surprising.

NORTH CAROLINA (WITN) - Former Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor in 2024, is back in the news after appearing on a podcast addressing some of the controversies that derailed his campaign in 2024. Robinson sat down for a more than 90-minute interview on the podcast After The Call, produced by an organization called Real Truth Media. He denied the allegations at the time, saying they were lies by the media to sink his political career. On the podcast, Robinson said he had an obsession with pornography and sex as a young man, and that the denial during the campaign was, in part, to protect people around him. You can click on the following link to watch the entire interview: Mark Robinson Finally Admits It -Real Truth MediaCopyright 2026 WITN.

Sen. Thom Tillis on Thursday blasted talk of ending the Senate filibuster to pass the “SAVE America Act” as a “foolish and lazy idea” and warned his party that pushing the president’s priority through the so-called talking filibuster would hand control to Democrats. Eliminating the filibuster is a foolish and lazy idea pushed by politicians seeking short-term gain at the expense of causing irreparable long-term harm to our nation,” Tillis said in a statement. Tillis has been vocal in his opposition to any attempt to try and force the bill through the Senate. He’s consistently been against changing long-held Senate rules to make it easier to pass the president’s agenda through the narrowly divided chamber. Democrats would control the floor of the U.S. Senate until the end of the year,” he said.

President Donald Trump joined with Israel to launch the Iran war at an inauspicious time for the US-Israeli relationship. On Tuesday, we learned that the first high-profile Trump administration official had resigned while citing the Iran war. Disclaiming involvement might serve Trump’s domestic political purposes, but it doesn’t help Israel’s reputation in the United States. “This canard that we dragged the United States into it – it’s not just a canard; it’s ridiculous. Kylie Cooper/ReutersGabbard was then asked if Israel’s objectives aligned with the United States’, and she again appeared stumped.

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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNNNew York (CNN) — The US has lost thousands of manufacturing jobs over the last year. At the Amana plant, the hope of a stable future building appliances in the town that introduced America’s first side-by-side refrigerator is dimming. “You have generations working at the Amana plant. The US economy has shed more than 7.5 million manufacturing jobs since a peak in 1979, driven by global competition, automation and exchange rates. “I don’t understand how that reconciles with opening up more in Mexico.”Whirlpool supports Trump’s planWhirlpool, which also owns the KitchenAid, Maytag and Amana brands, supports Trump’s tariffs.