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FILE - President Joe Biden, right, and French President Emmanuel Macron arrive at the international ceremony at Omaha Beach, June 6, 2024, in Normandy, France. Biden is being feted with a state visit this weekend by Macron in Paris.(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool)

Macron hosts Biden as the 2 leaders try to move past trade tensions

Biden hosted Macron in December 2022 at the White House for the 1st state visit of his presidency

 

The head of Canada’s biggest trucking firm says the U.S. election is softening an already weak market for freight. A transport truck carries a cargo container at port in Vancouver, on Friday, July 14, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

U.S. election uncertainty making freight market worse, TFI CEO says

A tough trucking environment in general has also hurt transport companies

 

FILE - A portion of a page from a Harry Truman’s 1947 presidential diary is shown at the National Archives in Washington, July 10, 2003. Presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden have kept presidential diaries. In them, they confide in themselves, express raw opinions, trace even the humdrum habits of their day and offer insight-on-the-fly on monumental decisions of their time. It’s where they may also spill secrets they shouldn’t. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

The diaries of presidents offer history in the raw and may have secrets to tell

Just before dawn one summer day in Washington, the president of the…

 

In this combination of photos, President Joe Biden, left, speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, and former President Donald Trump speaks on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, N.J. The 2024 general election campaign will pick up Saturday, March 9, where the 2020 contest left off. Fresh off their Super Tuesday domination to set up a near-certain rematch, the two rivals will hold dueling events in a state that both parties see as pivotal to winning in November. (AP Photo)

The Biden-Trump rematch comes into view with dueling visits to Georgia

Once a Republican stronghold, Georgia is now competitive

In this combination of photos, President Joe Biden, left, speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, and former President Donald Trump speaks on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, N.J. The 2024 general election campaign will pick up Saturday, March 9, where the 2020 contest left off. Fresh off their Super Tuesday domination to set up a near-certain rematch, the two rivals will hold dueling events in a state that both parties see as pivotal to winning in November. (AP Photo)
In this image provided Malia Pila, Nex Benedict poses outside the family’s home in Owasso, Okla., in December 2023. Police in Oklahoma are investigating the death of Benedict, a 16-year-old student who died a day after an altercation in a high school bathroom that may have been prompted by bullying over gender identity. Neither police nor school officials have said what led to the fight. But the family of Benedict says there had been harassment because the teen was nonbinary. (Sue Benedict via AP)

Vigils held for U.S. non-binary teen who died following school bathroom fight

16-year-old said they were the target of bullying; police not commenting on cause of death

In this image provided Malia Pila, Nex Benedict poses outside the family’s home in Owasso, Okla., in December 2023. Police in Oklahoma are investigating the death of Benedict, a 16-year-old student who died a day after an altercation in a high school bathroom that may have been prompted by bullying over gender identity. Neither police nor school officials have said what led to the fight. But the family of Benedict says there had been harassment because the teen was nonbinary. (Sue Benedict via AP)
A Federal Court judge has set aside a decision to grant refugee status to an American transgender woman, sending her application back to an appeal panel for redetermination. A rainbow flag is seen at Toronto City Hall in Toronto on Tuesday, May 31, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Eduardo Lima

Judge sets aside ruling that granted U.S. trans woman’s refugee status in Canada

Bloodworth applied for refugee protection in Canada over fears of transphobic persecution by U.S. society

A Federal Court judge has set aside a decision to grant refugee status to an American transgender woman, sending her application back to an appeal panel for redetermination. A rainbow flag is seen at Toronto City Hall in Toronto on Tuesday, May 31, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Eduardo Lima
Migrants pick up clothes as mutual aid groups distribute food and clothes under cold weather near the Migrant Assistance Center at St. Brigid Elementary School, on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Brutally cold weather reaches deep into lower U.S., causing dozens of deaths

Temperatures dropping below zero as far south as Texas and Florida

Migrants pick up clothes as mutual aid groups distribute food and clothes under cold weather near the Migrant Assistance Center at St. Brigid Elementary School, on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea’s missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea on Sunday, its neighbors said, in its first missile launch this year, as the North is expected to further raise regional animosities in an election year for its rivals South Korea and the United States. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea launches suspected missile that can reach distant U.S. bases

Experts say North Korea could use such tests to influence outcomes of elections in South Korea and U.S.

A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea’s missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea on Sunday, its neighbors said, in its first missile launch this year, as the North is expected to further raise regional animosities in an election year for its rivals South Korea and the United States. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
FILE - A right-wing demonstrator gestures toward a counter protester as members of the Proud Boys and other right-wing demonstrators rally in Portland, Ore., Sept. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

American democracy has overcome big stress tests. More challenges are ahead

A lot has happened since Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election results, and a lot more is to come

FILE - A right-wing demonstrator gestures toward a counter protester as members of the Proud Boys and other right-wing demonstrators rally in Portland, Ore., Sept. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
In this photo provided by the Ministry of Defence on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023, a view of the HMS Diamond off the coast of Scotland, Oct. 4, 2020. A Royal Navy warship has shot down a suspected attack drone targeting commercial ships in the Red Sea, Britain’s defense secretary said Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. Grant Shapps said that HMS Diamond fired a Sea Viper missile and destroyed a drone that was “targeting merchant shipping.” (LPhot Belinda Alker/Ministry of Defence via AP)

U.S. and Britain say their navies shot down 15 attack drones over the Red Sea

Global shipping has become a target during the war between Israel and Hamas

In this photo provided by the Ministry of Defence on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023, a view of the HMS Diamond off the coast of Scotland, Oct. 4, 2020. A Royal Navy warship has shot down a suspected attack drone targeting commercial ships in the Red Sea, Britain’s defense secretary said Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. Grant Shapps said that HMS Diamond fired a Sea Viper missile and destroyed a drone that was “targeting merchant shipping.” (LPhot Belinda Alker/Ministry of Defence via AP)
Smoke rises from Israeli artillery shelling on Aita al-Shaab, a Lebanese border village with Israel, in south Lebanon, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israel presses ahead in Gaza with renewed US military and diplomatic support

About 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced within the besieged territory

Smoke rises from Israeli artillery shelling on Aita al-Shaab, a Lebanese border village with Israel, in south Lebanon, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
FILE - Republican presidential candidates from left, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy arrive on stage before a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by NBC News Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in Miami. Republican presidential candidates will cross paths again in Iowa just days after a fractious debate and as the countdown to the caucuses nears the one-month mark. DeSantis, Haley and Ramaswamy will make their case in northwest Iowa, a more rural, conservative corner of the state. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

DeSantis, Haley and Ramaswamy try to make their case in Iowa after GOP debate

Each is getting time onstage at Dordt University in Sioux Center with U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra and his wife

FILE - Republican presidential candidates from left, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy arrive on stage before a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by NBC News Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in Miami. Republican presidential candidates will cross paths again in Iowa just days after a fractious debate and as the countdown to the caucuses nears the one-month mark. DeSantis, Haley and Ramaswamy will make their case in northwest Iowa, a more rural, conservative corner of the state. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
FILE - U.S. President Joe Biden, left, and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi talk during the G20 leaders summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Nov. 15, 2022. The warm ties India and the United States have built are being tested after US prosecutors on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, accused an Indian official of orchestrating an alleged assassination plot in New York City. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, Pool, File)

India-U.S. ties could face test after a foiled assassination attempt on a Sikh

The plot, which was foiled a U.S. sting, emerged just days after the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar

FILE - U.S. President Joe Biden, left, and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi talk during the G20 leaders summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Nov. 15, 2022. The warm ties India and the United States have built are being tested after US prosecutors on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, accused an Indian official of orchestrating an alleged assassination plot in New York City. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, Pool, File)
FILE - Demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Capitol building Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington, on the one year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. As the 2024 campaign heats up, experts on extremism fear the threat of politically motivated violence will only intensify. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Political violence threatens to intensify as the U.S. 2024 campaign heats up

‘Spending hours and hours consuming conspiracy theory material is intoxicating’

FILE - Demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Capitol building Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington, on the one year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. As the 2024 campaign heats up, experts on extremism fear the threat of politically motivated violence will only intensify. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is headed to the U.S. capital for a summit meeting to talk about growing trade connections across the Western Hemisphere. Trudeau talks with United States President Joe Biden during a family photo with G7 leaders and outreach countries and international organizations Saturday, May 20, 2023 in Hiroshima, Japan. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Trudeau headed to White House for Western Hemisphere trade summit

It’s unclear whether Biden and Trudeau will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is headed to the U.S. capital for a summit meeting to talk about growing trade connections across the Western Hemisphere. Trudeau talks with United States President Joe Biden during a family photo with G7 leaders and outreach countries and international organizations Saturday, May 20, 2023 in Hiroshima, Japan. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Law enforcement continue a manhunt in the aftermath of a mass shooting, in Durham, Maine, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. Authorities are scouring hundreds of acres of family-owned property, sending dive teams to the bottom of a river and scrutinizing a possible suicide note in the second day of their intensive search for an Army reservist accused of fatally shooting several people in Maine.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Maine embarks on healing a day after mass killing suspect is found dead

Robert Card died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials say

Law enforcement continue a manhunt in the aftermath of a mass shooting, in Durham, Maine, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. Authorities are scouring hundreds of acres of family-owned property, sending dive teams to the bottom of a river and scrutinizing a possible suicide note in the second day of their intensive search for an Army reservist accused of fatally shooting several people in Maine.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
A newly released memo shows federal officials warned last spring that expanding a bilateral refugee pact to the entire Canada-U.S. border would likely fuel smuggling networks and encourage people to seek more dangerous, remote crossing routes. A family from Haiti approach a tent in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, stationed by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as they haul their luggage down Roxham Road in Champlain, N.Y., on August 7, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Charles Krupa

Canada-U.S. refugee pact changes expected to ‘exacerbate existing threats’: memo

The memo also warned that organized crime groups might use shifting irregular migration routes

A newly released memo shows federal officials warned last spring that expanding a bilateral refugee pact to the entire Canada-U.S. border would likely fuel smuggling networks and encourage people to seek more dangerous, remote crossing routes. A family from Haiti approach a tent in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, stationed by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as they haul their luggage down Roxham Road in Champlain, N.Y., on August 7, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Charles Krupa
FILE - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks during The Des Moines Register Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

RFK Jr. to run for president as independent, drop Democratic primary bid

Polls so far show greater support for RFK Jr. among Republicans than Democrats

FILE - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks during The Des Moines Register Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
President Joe Biden’s dog Commander, a German shepherd, sits at the Truman balcony of the White House, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden’s dog Commander no longer at White House after biting incidents

Commander had been involved in a series of biting incidents, most recently on Sept. 25

President Joe Biden’s dog Commander, a German shepherd, sits at the Truman balcony of the White House, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters after a closed-door meeting with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and other House Republicans after Gaetz filed a motion to oust McCarthy from his leadership role, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McCarthy becomes 1st U.S. speaker ever to be ousted from the job

Next steps are uncertain, but there is no obvious successor to lead the House Republican majority

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters after a closed-door meeting with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and other House Republicans after Gaetz filed a motion to oust McCarthy from his leadership role, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)