President Trump praised Japan’s new prime minister, calling the U.S. and Japan allies “at the strongest level.”
Trump met Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during his Asia trip — the first woman to hold the office in Japan.
The two leaders signed agreements to strengthen their alliance, including new investments and critical mineral deals.
Trump is seeking more than $500 billion in Japanese investments as part of a broader trade agreement.
The discussions also covered the war in Ukraine and North Korea, ahead of Trump’s expected meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week.
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House Republicans are intensifying scrutiny of former President Joe Biden with a new report that questions who was really running the White House.
The report centers on Biden’s use of the autopen, a device that allows staff to sign documents on his behalf, and suggests that top aides may have taken advantage of the president’s declining mental acuity.
Republicans say the findings raise serious questions about the legitimacy of executive orders, pardons, and other key decisions made during Biden’s administration.
The report also calls on the Justice Department to investigate Biden’s inner circle, including his personal doctor, Kevin O’Connor, who declined to testify before Congress.
President Donald Trump is set to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea this week as both nations work to ease global market concerns and mend strained trade relations.
The White House says preliminary talks have been productive, with early signs of an agreement forming. Discussions are focusing on China’s control of strategic minerals, U.S. export rules, and agricultural trade.
Trump’s team is pressing Beijing to relax restrictions on rare earth minerals, which are crucial for American manufacturing and defense industries. The president is also seeking increased Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans to support farmers across the heartland.
China, meanwhile, is looking for relief from stringent U.S. technology export controls and hopes Trump will reconsider new tariffs tied to fentanyl trafficking.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called the negotiations “the most promising in years” and said a “successful framework” is taking shape. Trump said both sides want a deal but emphasized that the U.S. will continue defending fair trade and national security.
Israel said on Monday that the Red Cross had handed over the body of another deceased hostage from Gaza to the Israeli military, according to a statement by the Israeli prime minister's office.
If the identity of the deceased hostage is confirmed, it would mean that the remains of 12 hostages remain in Gaza with Palestinian militant group Hamas citing obstacles to locating them in the rubble left by the fighting.
Earlier on Monday, Hamas' armed wing said it would hand over the body of a deceased hostage it recovered on Monday in Gaza.
The recovery and handover of bodies of deceased hostages in Gaza has been one of the obstacles to U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza plan.
An Israeli government spokesperson said on Sunday that the Palestinian militant group knew where the bodies were.
Israel on Sunday allowed the entry of an Egyptian technical team to work with the Red Cross to locate the bodies. The team would use excavator machines and trucks for the search beyond the so-called yellow line in Gaza behind which Israeli troops have initially pulled back under Trump's plan.
22-year-old Tyler Robinson, charged in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, scored a small legal victory Monday in court.
The judge in Kirk's murder case ruled in favor of Robinson's motion to wear street clothes at trial, rather than appear in a jail jumpsuit.
The issue of attire was brought to the judge by Robinson's lawyers. They argued jurors could potentially view Robinson as guilty, if they saw him in the prison uniform.
However, Robinson was denied a different motion - to appear in court without handcuffs or restraints.
Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University campus last month.
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