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Japan will spend around $25 billion on policies meant to bolster its sliding birthrate, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Thursday, without fully explaining how he will fund the plans. “This will bring our country’s spending per child on families to the level of Sweden,” which is one of the highest among developed economies, Kishida said after a meeting of his children’s future strategy panel.

With roughly two weeks until the US Treasury was going to run out of money to pay the government’s bills, the negotiations in Washington to lift the nation’s debt limit blew up. It was Friday morning, May 19, and teams representing President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had convened in an ornate meeting room on the Capitol’s first floor with a view of the National Mall.

WASHINGTON — Todd Blanche, a former prosecutor who resigned from an elite law firm to defend Donald Trump against New York criminal charges, is now also involved in the former president’s defense in federal investigations, according to people familiar with the situation.

The only statewide organization that supports Oklahoma abuse victims is in jeopardy after federal auditors determined former staff and board members misspent more than $500,000 in public money. For more than 40 years, the Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault has taught advocates how to help victims file protective orders and secure clothing, bedding and other basic needs they were forced to leave behind.