TOKYO (AP) – Last week Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won a landslide election that she hopes will allow her to move her nation’s policies hard right. On Wednesday she will be reappointed as prime minister by the parliament and form her second Cabinet.

For eight years, President Barack Obama’s aides marveled that no amount of mockery, dismissal or scandal could make Donald Trump go away.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:

NEW YORK (AP) – Warner Bros. Discovery is briefly reopening takeover talks with Skydance-owned Paramount to hear the company’s “best and final” offer, while the Hollywood giant continues to back the studio and streaming deal it struck with Netflix.

Hotel magnate Thomas Pritzker will step down as the executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels after details of his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein were revealed in documents related to the burgeoning investigation of ties between the notorious sex trafficker and the elite and powerful.

CHICAGO (AP) – From the moment the Rev. Jesse Jackson stepped forward as torchbearer to what was then a largely Southern civil rights struggle – a movement with much unfinished business – he created a bridge. “From Martin Luther King to Barack Obama, there’s a bridge called Jesse Jackson,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said.

NEW DELHI (AP) – India is hoping to garner as much as $200 billion in investments for data centers over the next few years as it scales up its ambitions to become a hub for artificial intelligence, the country’s minister for electronics and information technology said Tuesday.

ILULISSAT, Greenland (AP) – Growing up in a village in northern Greenland, Jørgen Kristensen’s closest friends were his stepfather’s sled dogs. Most of his classmates were dark-haired Inuit; he was different. When he was bullied at school for his fair hair – an inheritance from the mainland Danish father he never knew – the dogs came to him.