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Watch Live: Biden welcomes Japan prime minister to White House as he tries to rally allies to counter China
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Tokyo — President Joe Biden's first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader is set to take place in Washington on Friday, as he sits down with Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Their talks are likely to cover climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and North Korea.
After the president hosts Suga at the White House for a bilateral meeting, the two will appear together at a press conference in the Rose Garden.![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20250214202746.jpg)
Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a high-stakes meeting at this year's Munich Security conference to discuss the Trump administration's efforts to end the war in Ukraine. Vance said the U.S. seeks a "durable" peace, while Zelenskyy expressed the desire for extensive discussions to prepare for any end to the conflict.
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Washington — The Trump administration on Thursday intensified its sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce, the nation's largest employer, by ordering agencies to lay off nearly all probationary employees who hadn't yet gained civil service protection - potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of workers.
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It was Labor Day weekend 2003 when Matt Scribner, a local horse farrier and trainer who also competes in long-distance horse races, was on his usual ride in a remote part of the Sierra Nevada foothills — just a few miles northeast of Auburn, California —when he noticed a freshly dug hole along the trail that piqued his curiosity.