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President Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House next week as Japan boosts its defense spending amid growing security risks in East Asia regarding North Korea and China. The president will welcome Kishida on Friday, Jan. 13, to discuss a "range of regional and global issues" and to "deepen ties"...

Another powerful winter storm could bring more than a foot of snow in the Plains and Upper Midwest this week. The National Weather Service (NWS) said "intense" snow rates and fast wind gusts were likely for Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota through Tuesday. "A major winter storm is bearing down on the Plains into the...

Northern California and western Nevada were slammed over the weekend by a powerful winter storm that deluged towns and counties with several inches of rain and snowfall. An atmospheric river storm pulled in moisture from the Pacific Ocean before pushing through the western states. As of Sunday afternoon, power was out in more than 170,000 California...

Two senior executives associated with cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded guilty to criminal charges on Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams in the Southern District of New York announced that both Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, and Gary Wang, a co-founder of FTX, had pleaded guilty to charges related to their roles in the...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gifted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky an encased American flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol during his visit on Wednesday. After Zelensky addressed members of Congress with a passionate speech, Pelosi shook his hand and presented the U.S. flag inside a special triangular case. "This flag was flown over the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Belarus this week escalated concerns that he is seeking to drag the country into his war in Ukraine. Both Russia and Ukraine have acknowledged they are expecting a long fight, and Putin’s high-profile trip to Minsk to meet Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko underscored the country’s role as a border...