Britain’s royal family will postpone certain engagements in light of the general election that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday. In a Buckingham Palace statement, reported by Sky News, King Charles III and Queen Camilla said “the royal family will—in accordance with normal procedure—postpone engagements that may...

DENVER — The first attempts to regulate artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role in hiring, housing and medical decisions for millions of Americans are facing pressure from all sides and floundering in statehouses nationwide. Only one of seven bills aimed at preventing AI’s penchant to discriminate when making consequential...

By the time I was seven or eight years old, I was keenly aware of my father’s drug use. He didn’t snort pills in front of me yet—he saved that for my teen years—but he talked about pills freely and I knew he took them. He was meaner than usual when he couldn’t get his pills, and I learned to recognize the signs of withdrawal long before...

WASHINGTON — House Republicans have summoned the leaders of Northwestern University and Rutgers University to testify about concessions they gave to pro-Palestinian protesters to end demonstrations on their campus. The chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, also was scheduled to appear Thursday in the latest in...

It’s not easy being Japan’s Prime Minister. Though the center-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has dominated the country’s politics for nearly seven decades, the top job has frequently changed hands. Fumio Kishida is just the third leader in the past quartercentury to last at least two years. Yet once again, change is coming. [time-brightcove...

Just days after the inauguration of Taiwan’s new President William Lai Ching-te, of the Beijing-skeptical Democratic Progressive Party, China initiated surprise military drills around the self-governed island it claims as its own. The People’s Liberation Army described the exercises, which included sending naval ships and warplanes...