Lai Ching-te, Taiwan's president-elect, has vowed to safeguard the island's de-facto independence from China and further align it with other democracies.
A potentially dangerous winter storm forecast to hit the Buffalo region over the weekend led the NFL on Saturday to push back the Bills' wild-card playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers from Sunday to Monday.
Ruling-party candidate Lai Ching-te emerged victorious in Taiwan's presidential election on Saturday and his opponents conceded, a result that will determine the trajectory of the self-ruled democracy's relations with China over the next four years.