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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a state visit on April 10, with the goal of strengthening a critical alliance as the United States has sought to counter China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific region. John Kirby, the White House national security spokesman, told reporters aboard Air Force […]

KYIV – Questions remained on Jan 25 over the military plane crash that Russia said had killed dozens of captured Ukrainian soldiers ahead of a planned prisoner exchange. The Russian defence and foreign ministries blamed Ukrainian forces for downing the IL-76 transport plane over the southern Belgorod region. They said 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers had […]

Ukraine is working to organise a visit by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna said on Thursday, the first visit since Russia’s invasion by a figure widely seen as the most sympathetic to Moscow of all leaders of NATO states. Stefanishyna confirmed the plans in remarks to Reuters, related by […]

A Marion County Jury returned with a guilty verdict Wednesday for an Ocala man who was accused of committing sexual abuse on a child over a period of several years. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS It took jurors less than 45 minutes to find now 34-year-old Frederick Lamar Hamilton guilty on eight felony charges, […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Kristina Karamo, a failed secretary of state candidate who was elected as the Michigan Republican Party’s chair last February, was “properly removed” from the position earlier this month by party members, according to an initial review done by the Republican National Committee. The Republican National Committee, or RNC, said their determination […]

US President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a state visit to the United States on April 10, the White House said on Thursday. The formal social and policy event delivers on a promise by Biden to host the closely allied nation, which is key to the United States’ strategy to […]

The ability to resume flying was a relief to US Max 9 operators Alaska Airlines and United Airlines, which had been forced to cancel thousands of flights and aim to begin returning the planes to service on Friday and Sunday, respectively. But experts said the FAA’s response to “unacceptable” quality controls following the loss of […]

Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies detained three inmates Wednesday following an attack in which an inmate was stabbed five or six times at the Sacramento County Main Jail downtown. The victim, who has not been identified, was stabbed during “recreation time,” according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office. The inmate was taken to a hospital and […]

By Alexandra Ulmer and Tim Reid (Reuters) – A prominent donor to Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley will stop funding her campaign, declaring that former President Donald Trump has effectively won the party’s nominating race after he defeated Haley in New Hampshire. Metals magnate Andy Sabin said in an interview late on Wednesday that the […]

As state officials finalized a ban on diversity spending in universities Wednesday, University of North Florida activists rallied to call for reopening an LGBTQ Center they expected would close. “I myself have benefited from it. And they want to take it away?” Marlo Crosby, vice president of UNF’s Students for a Democratic Society chapter, shouted […]

Former President Donald Trump returned to a New York courtroom Thursday to attend his defamation trial and possibly testify with millions of dollars likely on the line, two days after he won the New Hampshire presidential primary. Trump could be called by his own attorneys to take the stand in the case brought by the […]