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What Happened Today – March 19, 2026

President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi seated in the Oval Office during a bilateral meeting on March 20, 2026

Donald Trump invoked Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor while seated next to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in the Oval Office, after a Japanese reporter asked why allies weren't consulted on Iran. (C-SPAN)

Alexia Moore took abortion pills and went to a Georgia emergency room in pain, where a security guard called the police. The fetus was delivered at the hospital and did not survive. The county coroner ruled the cause of death undetermined. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation declined to perform an autopsy. Local police charged Moore … Read more

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