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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump on Wednesday renewed his calls to release Tina Peters, a pro-Trump election worker who was convicted for her role in a scheme aimed at finding evidence of election fraud in the president’s 2020 election loss.Peters, a former election clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, is serving a nine-year prison sentence following her August 2024 conviction on seven charges, including four felonies, related to a 2021 security breach of the county’s voting systems as she sought evidence to support Trump’s claims that his loss to former President Joe Biden was due…

A secret cache of drugs has been discovered tucked behind a hidden door in a music studio, leading to the arrest of a musician, his partner and seven others.

BANGKOK: Anutin Charnvirakul was re-elected Thailand’s prime minister on Thursday (Mar 19) after sailing through a parliamentary vote, winning a fresh mandate that could usher in a rare period of stability for a country long plagued by political drama and turmoil.The Bhumjaithai Party’s Anutin led from the start in what turned out to be a rout of his biggest rival, Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, leader of the progressive People’s Party, the surprise runner-up last month in an election it had been widely expected to win.Anutin becomes the first Thai premier to be voted back to office in two decades, underlining the upheaval…

Heavy social media use has contributed to ‘worrying decline’ in wellbeing in Western countries, World Happiness Report says.Published On 19 Mar 202619 Mar 2026Social media has played a large role in declining happiness among young people in Western countries, a United Nations-backed report has found.Heavy social media use partly explains a “worrying decline” in the wellbeing of young people in the West, the latest edition of the annual World Happiness Report said on Wednesday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listIn total, 15 Western countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, saw significant declines in youth wellbeing…

Costa Rica on Wednesday closed its embassy in Havana and told Cuba’s communist government to pull its diplomats from San José.  “We have to clean out communists from the hemisphere,” Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared after the diplomatic rupture.The Cuban Embassy in the U.S. responded to the closure by alleging in a social media post that Costa Rica made the move “under pressure from the United States.”  The Costa Rican embassy is pictured in Havana, Cuba, on March 18, 2026.  YAMIL LAGE /AFP via Getty Images Costa Rica’s leadership is allied with President Trump, who has recently suggested he…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Before March Madness tips off with the first round Thursday afternoon, millions are scrambling to put together what they believe is the perfect bracket for the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments.Some will fill out one, but others will try their luck with multiple brackets, mixing and matching their teams to produce what they believe is the best possible chance to win it all.One NBA All-Star believes those with multiple brackets are doing it the wrong way. Former Iowa State guard and Olympic gold medalist Tyrese Haliburton, who plays for the Indiana Pacers,…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 18, 2026 6:40 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A member of the Nova Scotia legislature says hackers have released personal images of him and his wife after he refused to provide payment in a blackmail attempt. Rick Burns said in a statement this evening that criminals hacked his email this week and requested money, which his family refused to pay.The MLA for Hammonds Plains-Lucasville says the hackers accessed files on his devices and have released personal images and videos of him and his wife as punishment.…

A US jury has ruled in favour of rapper Afroman in a defamation case stemming from his use of police raid footage in a series of viral music videos.

TIES WITH JAPAN AND CHINAMr Wong said that Singapore does not view its relations with China and Japan as a “zero-sum affair”, noting that it is possible to maintain good ties with both, and the United States.While Japan’s relationship with China is more challenging, he expressed hopes that both sides would continue to maintain dialogue and eventually find ways to resolve their differences.Mr Wong was also asked how China would respond to his visit to Japan, given the recent tensions between the two East Asian neighbours.He said China was aware of his visit to Japan, and continued to invite him…

US spy agencies says Chinese leadership still prefers to pursue unification with Taiwan ‘without use of force’.Published On 19 Mar 202619 Mar 2026United States intelligence agencies say that China is pursuing its longstanding goal of taking control over Taiwan, but they do not expect Beijing to launch an invasion by next year, according to their latest threat assessment.“The [intelligence community] assesses that Chinese leaders do not currently plan to execute an invasion of Taiwan in 2027, nor do they have a fixed timeline for achieving unification,” according to the 2026 Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, which was…