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A short video circulating widely on social media platforms this week depicts a young couple engaging in a reckless stunt involving a handgun that ends with the woman sustaining a chipped front tooth. In the roughly 14-second clip, filmed in what appears to be a private indoor setting, a man holds a black semi-automatic handgun and places the barrel into his girlfriend’s open mouth while...

Sanae Takaichi, Japan's first female prime minister, spent most of a Saturday in August answering questions about the brick mansion next to her office in Tokyo. Has she seen the ghosts? No. Has she seen a cockroach? Yes. And the answer to that second question has now become one of the more unusual footnotes of her young administration. Takaichi wrote on X on August 22,...