WASHINGTON — Justin Trudeau, Canada's young new leader, looks to strengthen ties with the United States as he makes a high-profile visit to the White House.

STATE DINNER-CANADA — Vivid greens and whites chosen to evoke the coming of spring will welcome Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to a White House state dinner in his honor Thursday, the first one in nearly 20 years to celebrate U.S.-Canada relations. Canadian whiskey is on the menu. But just a drizzle.

MIAMI — Fighting for Florida and beyond, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tangle repeatedly in their eighth presidential debate over who's a true advocate for Latinos and who has a track record of letting Hispanics down.

MEXICO-FOX-US ELECTION — Former President Vicente Fox says that a Donald Trump presidency could lead Mexico and the United States to "serious" diplomatic problems and a trade war that would hurt both countries.

SIMI VALLEY, California — Nancy Reagan began her final journey to her husband's side as a police motorcade carried her casket down an empty freeway lined with saluting firefighters and mourners holding hands over their hearts in tribute to the former first lady.

LIMA, Peru — Peru's electoral council bars the main challenger to front-runner Keiko Fujimori from the country's April 10 presidential election on a technicality.

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Nicolas Maduro announces that Venezuela's top diplomat in Washington would be called back to Caracas to protest the decision to renew a U.S. decree imposing sanctions on several top officials from the South American country.

GUATEMALA CITY — A former leader of Guatemala's Congress is arrested on charges of trying to bribe a judge to issue a ruling favoring the vice president at the time, who is also accused of corruption. By Sonia Perez D.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A man convicted of killing five people including his ex-wife in a 1997 shooting rampage near Houston has been put to death.

HARTFORD, Connected — A bankruptcy court official urges a federal judge in Connecticut to order an independent review of rapper 50 Cent's assets, after questions were raised about his financial reporting and photos of him with piles of cash were posted online.