World & Nation
TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition secured a majority in Japan’s upper house of parliament in elections Sunday but will not reach the super-majority needed to propose constitutional revisions, according to vote counts by public television and other media.NHK public television said shortly after midnight that Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party and its junior partner Komeito had won 69 seats in the upper house, with nine seats remaining.
July 20, 2019
Money & Company
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June 9, 2009
A campaign began Wednesday for an election July 26 that will measure how big an interim step Japan’s ruling party can take to restore its power in the upper house of Parliament.
July 9, 1992
Russia’s military also conducted drills, overseen by President Vladimir Putin, that simulated a nuclear strike in response to a nuclear attack.
Oct. 25, 2023
Real Estate
No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal has a remodeling project in the works.
Aug. 13, 2018
“The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it,” the 19th century economist Walter Bagehot wrote of the upper chamber of the British Parliament, long known for the eccentricity of its titled amateur politicians.
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Ten years, three remodels and a couple hundred thousand dollars ago, Rochelle Giuseffi and her family moved into a “fixer-upper” in Fountain Valley that was built “a little along contemporary lines.”
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Business
Attention first-time home buyers and small-scale real estate investors: The most cost-effective--but least-known--federal mortgage program in the country has just been made even more attractive.
April 10, 1994
California
Celebrity homebuilder Mohamed Hadid pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges involving a Bel-Air mansion that city officials say was built bigger and taller than allowed.
May 31, 2017