Taku Eto, Japan’s agriculture minister, after meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Tokyo on Monday. Mr. Eto’s remark about rice created a furor ahead of a national election in July.
Workers at in a factory in Penang, Malaysia, last year. The Southeast Asian country wants to move from assembling and testing semiconductors into chip design and cutting-edge manufacturing.
In a March 24 email, Joe Kent, chief of staff to Tulsi Gabbard, said that it was necessary to “rethink” the intelligence assessment, according to multiple people who described it.
Corey O’Connor had positioned himself as a pragmatic candidate who would get the city working again while it tried to rebuild a tax base devastated by the pandemic downturn in commercial real estate.
A Republican senator on Tuesday pointedly instructed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not to interfere with the livelihood of American farmers by suggesting certain pesticides are unsafe.
Representative Chip Roy of Texas is negotiating with House Speaker Mike Johnson and White House aides over the contents of what his party has called the “one big, beautiful bill.”