A record 9.56 million tickets were sold for the Paris Olympics while the Paralympics achieved their second-highest ticket sales of 2.58 million, the local organizing committee said Friday. Both sets ...

6, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP) Japan’s former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba announces his candidacy of the Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election, in Yazu town, Tottori prefecture, Japan, on ...

12, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP) This photo combination shows the candidates of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for the party’s upcoming presidential election. Top row from left, former Environment ...

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STREAM:USA vs. New Zealand and other USMNT matches LIVE on Sling A bounce-back would be welcome against the 94th-ranked team in the world by FIFA's standards, whereas an adverse result would bury ...

Even though they’re earning more they’re not really getting ahead," Timothy Smeeding, a leading expert on the poverty line, told USA TODAY. The uptick in the national poverty rate announced ...

The Netherlands and Brazil rounded out the top five. Team USA competed in 20 sports (out of 22 included in this year’s Games) and earned podium finishes in 16, according to the committee.

Team USA was also blanked in its opener, falling 1-0 to defending champions Spain. Olaya Enrique scored in the eighth minute and the United States was unable to do anything from there. The United ...

From the first iteration of the US Open in 1968 to the turn of the century, it was common for the tennis major in the United States to include at least one American in the final of the Grand Slam ...

KAGOSHIMA (Kyodo) -- An iconic 3,000-year-old cedar on Yakushima Island in southwestern Japan has been toppled, likely due to strong winds brought by Typhoon Shanshan, local tour guides said Tuesday.

LeBron James is coming off an outstanding experience at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris that he will remember for the rest of his life. He helped lead Team USA men's basketball to a gold medal, ...

(VCG/Getty/Kyodo) BEIJING (Kyodo) -- China's top diplomat Wang Yi showed willingness to lease giant pandas to a Japanese zoo when he met last week with a cross-party parliamentary delegation from ...