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Japan Today

June 2026

Japan and Sweden both advance to knockout round after 1-1 draw

Daizen Maeda gave Japan the lead and Anthony Elanga took it away six minutes later, giving Sweden a 1-1 draw Thursday night that sent both teams to the knockout round of the World Cup

Will Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wed in New York? Clues abound

Increasing signs point to a mega-bash for the A-list celebrity couple at Madison Square Garden next week

David Clayton-Thomas, powerhouse lead singer of Blood, Sweat & Tears, dies at 84

David Clayton-Thomassinger
I got home and just a couple of days later, Bobby Colomby called me up and said, ‘Hey, Kooper’s gone. We got four guys left out of the nine. And we still got a record contract with Columbia. Do you want to come down and try out for the band?”
A lot of the guys (in Blood, Sweat & Tears) would play a Broadway show matinee, then go up to Harlem and play Latin music or R&B and funk at night, or come down to the Village and play pure jazz the next night,
So I played him a couple songs on the guitar,

Apple increases prices for Macs and iPads, blaming shortage of memory chips

We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly,
I think the days of $50 price increases are over,

'Heat hazard' declared for F1's Austrian GP as Europe battles scorching weather

It can get much hotter inside the cramped cockpits where drivers sit wearing layers of flameproof clothing

When you’ve got no air coming in, that’s when it’s the worst,... I’ve got a few portable heaters and a small bathroom and an exercise bike,

Dominant Osaka sails into Bad Homburg semis

The Japanese sixth seed won 6-2, 6-2 in just 59 minutes to reach the final four of the grass court tournament just days from the start of Wimbledon

Obviously I can't say that I've had much experience on grass, but I feel really good right now,

Japan weather agency warns of heavy rain as 2 typhoons approach

Japan's weather agency on Thursday warned of heavy rain along the Pacific coast from southwestern to eastern Japan over the coming days as two typhoons approached the country

Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center has closed, governor says

Ron DeSantisflorida Governor
There is no question this mission has made the state of Florida safer,
The administration believes it can quietly walk away and leave its mess for others to clean up. The law will not allow them to escape accountability. We will ask the courts to ensure that the environmental damage is fully addressed,
We stepped up because there was a gap, but my hope is that they’ll be able to handle that,

Supreme Court lets Trump end deportation protections for Haitians and Syrians

The references — of filth, disease and primitiveness — are shot through with racial stereotypes and tropes,
David J. Bierimmigration policy analyst and director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute
It will be harder for the U.S. to compete on the global stage or keep up with a growing fiscal crisis if policymakers continue down a path that targets legal immigration pathways,
Haiti is not safe, and everyone knows it. The court's ruling does not change the reality on the ground or the contributions we make here in the United States,
Ahilan Arulananthamamerican immigration lawyer
Today the Supreme Court allowed the government to ignore a bedrock humanitarian protection that Congress, in ‌bipartisan fashion, established three decades ago to ensure that vulnerable refugees would not be subject to partisan whims,

Russia denies pressuring Belarus to widen Ukraine conflict; Minsk blames West

The former Soviet state is strategically important to all sides, being closely allied to Moscow and sharing borders with Russia, Ukraine and three NATO states

I think a week will be enough for him to do it. If he doesn’t do it, we will,
The situation along our borders is extremely unstable, ⁠and escalating. Beyond our borders, NATO troop formations are being reinforced, infrastructure is being upgraded, ⁠the military budgets of neighboring states are expanding, ‌and politicians are making strident militaristic statements,

Britain breaks June temperature record as deadly heatwave grips Europe

Stéphanie Ristfrench Health Minister
We are just at the start of seeing an increase in people going to emergency wards,
Simon StielluN climate chief
Europe’s savage heatwave has ‌the fingerprints of the climate crisis all over it — it's the latest price to pay for fossil fuel pollution baking our planet,
Significant disruption to daily life is ⁠likely and the public should take every effort to adapt their daily routines to cope with these levels of heat, which up to now have been extremely rare for the UK,
Schools closing, the vulnerable dying, economies sweating: this is what the climate crisis looks like in practice, and it's just getting started,
They're (children) very uncomfortable. We are actually going to leave a little early, because it's too hot, we're going to leave Paris early,
Simon StielluN Climate Change Executive Secretary
Europe's savage heat wave has the fingerprints of the climate crisis all over it -- it's the latest price to pay for fossil fuel pollution baking our planet,
Andy Pagemusic producer
Significant disruption to daily life is likely and the public should take every effort to adapt their daily routines to cope with these levels ​of heat, which up to now have been extremely rare for the UK,

King Charles reveals how much tax he paid; will not live at Buckingham Palace after refurbishment

James Chalmerskeeper of the privy purse
It is and will remain Monarchy HQ, the crown jewel of our national buildings,
If they’re open and as transparent as possible, then the contrast with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor becomes all the greater,