Trump will get royal welcome in Japan as he meets emperor
Whats up and welcome to the US politics stay weblog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I might be bringing you all the most recent information strains over the subsequent few hours.
We begin with the information that president Donald Trump obtained a royal welcome on Monday in Japan, the most recent leg of a five-day Asia journey which he hopes to cap with an settlement on a commerce warfare truce with Chinese language president Xi Jinping.
Trump, making his longest journey overseas since taking workplace in January, introduced offers with 4 Southeast Asian nations throughout the first cease in Malaysia and is anticipated to satisfy Xi in South Korea on Thursday, Reuters reported.
Trump shook fingers with officers on the tarmac and gave a number of fist pumps, earlier than his helicopter whisked him off for a scenic night time tour of Tokyo. His motorcade was later seen coming into the Imperial Palace grounds, the place he met Japanese emperor Naruhito.
Trump has already gained a $550-billion funding pledge from Tokyo in alternate for respite from punishing import tariffs.
President Donald Trump, left, and Japan’s Emperor Naruhito shake fingers throughout their assembly on the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Oct. 27, 2025. {Photograph}: Issei Kato/AP
Japan’s newly elected prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is hoping to additional impress Trump with guarantees to buy US pickup vehicles, soybeans and gasoline, and announce an settlement on shipbuilding, sources with data of the plans instructed Reuters.
Takaichi, who grew to become Japan’s first feminine premier final week, instructed Trump that strengthening their nations’ alliance was her “high precedence” in a phone name on Saturday.
Trump mentioned he was trying ahead to assembly Takaichi, a detailed ally of his late buddy and {golfing} companion, former prime minister Shinzo Abe, including: “I believe she’s going to be nice.”
In different developments:
The US and China have agreed a framework for a commerce deal simply days earlier than Donald Trump and Chinese language president Xi Jinping are as a consequence of meet. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent mentioned the settlement, cast on the sidelines of the Affiliation of south-east Asian Nations (Asean) summit in Malaysia on Sunday, would take away the specter of the imposition of 100% tariffs on Chinese language imports beginning on 1 November and embody “a ultimate deal” on the sale of TikTok within the US.
Trump has overseen the signing of a ceasefire settlement between Thailand and Cambodia on the primary day of an Asia tour. The US president arrived in Malaysia on Sunday earlier than the Asean summit within the capital, Kuala Lumpur. At a ceasefire ceremony in entrance of an indication that learn “Delivering Peace”, the Thai prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, and his Cambodian counterpart, Hun Manet, signed an expanded ceasefire deal associated to a lethal five-day battle in July.
The council of American-Islamic relations (Cair) has accused the Trump administration of a “blatant affront to free speech” after federal immigration authorities detained British journalist, Sami Hamdi, on Sunday. The Muslim civil rights group claimed that Hamdi had been detained at San Fransisco airport for criticising Israel’s ongoing navy marketing campaign in Gaza. Hamdi is considered one of a number of individuals who have been arrested and deported by ICE for expressing pro-Palestinian views.
On the day that his supporters attacked the US Capitol as a result of his 2020 re-election run led to defeat, Donald Trump known as his vice-president on the time, Mike Pence, and instructed him he would go down in historical past as a “wimp” if he licensed the election end result, a brand new e-book says.
Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, instructed CBS Information Sunday Morning he plans to decide on whether or not to run for president in 2028 as soon as the 2026 midterm elections are over. “Yeah, I’d be mendacity in any other case,” Newsom mentioned in response to a query on whether or not he would give severe thought to a White Home bid after the 2026 elections. “I’d simply be mendacity. And I’m not – I can’t do this.”
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Amid the redistricting battles, one essential level: Republicans management extra state legislatures than Democrats.
Because the Democratic Legislative Marketing campaign Committee places it on their web site urging Democrats to redraw maps, Democrats wouldn’t be capable of win an “all-out, state-by-state battle on redistricting”. Republicans legislative majorities oversee 55 Democratic congressional seats; Democratic majorities oversee 35 GOP districts.
The DLCC has known as on Democrats to undergo mid-cycle redistricting to struggle in opposition to Republicans’ efforts.
“The GOP’s ploy to gerrymander itself into energy forward of the 2026 midterms continues to accentuate throughout the nation, with Indiana changing into the most recent to hitch the ranks,” marketing campaign committee president Heather Williams mentioned in an announcement immediately. “As state Republicans’ assaults on voters develop, Democrats should meet Republicans’ may and struggle again to protect democracy. The DLCC has known as on Democratic state leaders to make use of all rapid choices to push again on Republicans – together with mid-cycle redistricting – as we construct extra sturdy Democratic majorities. We should fund successful essential battleground chambers to place Democrats for redistricting parity by the top of the last decade.”
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As Republican states launch extra redistricting efforts, Democrats in blue states are nonetheless deciding how or if they are going to reply.
Home minority chief Hakeem Jeffries is claimed to be headed to Illinois immediately to satisfy with native leaders about redrawing the congressional maps. Punchbowl stories that Jeffries will meet with the Illinois Legislative Black caucus and Black members of Congress, a nod to the truth that Black lawmakers might be wanted to go a brand new map.
Final week, the Illinois Senate Black caucus warned that it wouldn’t help a brand new map if it dilutes the Black voting inhabitants, Punchbowl famous. There are three traditionally Black districts amongst Illinois’s 17 congressional seats. Solely three of the state’s seats are held by Republicans.
In the meantime, in Virginia, the Democratic Home speaker known as a particular session centered on redistricting, which might add two or three further Democratic seats. The state’s governor, Republican Glenn Youngkin, known as the potential redrawing a “sham” from Democrats who’re “determined for energy any approach they’ll get”.
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Up to date at 10.02 EDT
Indiana governor Mike Braun declares he’s calling particular session to contemplate redrawing congressional districts in state
Indiana governor Mike Braun introduced immediately that he’s calling a particular session to contemplate redrawing congressional districts within the state, the most recent state to work on its maps forward of 2026.
Indiana is considered one of a number of Republican-led states that the Trump administration has pressured to undertake mid-decade redistricting to favor Republicans, which started with a push in Texas to redraw strains so as to add Republican seats.
California is contemplating a poll measure to redraw its strains to favor Democrats, taken in response to Texas. Now, a number of different states, together with Indiana, have forged their efforts at redistricting as a response to California.
“I’m calling a particular legislative session to guard Hoosiers from efforts in different states that search to decrease their voice in Washington and guarantee their illustration in Congress is honest,” Braun mentioned in an announcement this morning.
Republican state lawmakers in some states, together with Indiana and Kansas, have pushed again on the concept of redistricting. However Braun has mentioned, if the state doesn’t redraw its maps, “in all probability, we’ll have penalties of not working with the Trump administration as tightly as we should always.”
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Up to date at 09.41 EDT
As Tesla prepares for a board assembly subsequent week the place shareholders will vote on a proposed $1tn pay package deal for Elon Musk, the board chair instructed shareholders Musk might depart the corporate if he doesn’t get the pay enhance.
Reuters stories this morning that board chair Robyn Denholm wrote a letter to shareholders saying they need to approve Musk’s pay package deal as a result of he’s “important” to the electrical automobile firm’s success.
The contours of the pay package deal are supposed to maintain Musk on the firm for one more seven and a half years, she wrote. Tesla’s board is shut with Musk – a previous pay deal, in 2018, was not too long ago struck down by a court docket as a result of the board wasn’t totally impartial and the deal was improperly rewarded, in accordance with Reuters.
“With out Elon, Tesla might lose vital worth, as our firm could not be valued for what we purpose to turn out to be,” Denholm wrote.
Musk mentioned on the corporate earnings name final week that he needs to make sure he has management over a “robotic military”, a reference to Optimus robots Tesla is constructing. The pay plan contains rising Musk’s shares within the firm.
“If we construct this robotic military, do I’ve at the least a powerful affect over that robotic military?” Musk mentioned final week. “I don’t really feel comfy constructing that robotic military if I don’t have at the least a powerful affect.”
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Up to date at 09.33 EDT
Michael Sainato
Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, instructed CBS Information Sunday Morning he plans to decide on whether or not to run for president in 2028 as soon as the 2026 midterm elections are over.
“Yeah, I’d be mendacity in any other case,” Newsom mentioned in response to a query on whether or not he would give severe thought to a White Home bid after the 2026 elections. “I’d simply be mendacity. And I’m not – I can’t do this.”
Newsom’s time period as governor ends in January 2027 and he’s not in a position to run once more as a consequence of time period limits, however cautioned {that a} resolution is years away.
“Destiny will decide that,” he mentioned.
The California governor has emerged as a high-profile critic of the Trump administration by his social media accounts and push of a poll measure that might enhance Democrats’ congressional seats in response to Republican redistricting efforts – a transfer that has made him a goal for critics.
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Melody Schreiber
The workers supporting the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) have been let go earlier this month in a sweeping spherical of layoffs that gutted whole departments of the US Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC).
Many of the committee’s working teams, which pore over knowledge and assist set the agendas, haven’t met for months, and there was little communication from the workers even earlier than they obtained discount in drive (RIF) notices throughout the US authorities shutdown.
The ACIP assembly deliberate for 22-23 October has been indefinitely postponed.
The modifications imply the US authorities could not make routine vaccine suggestions for greater than half of youngsters in 2026, and they’re going to doubtless have an effect on the event and advice of latest vaccines within the pipeline.
The ACIP made headlines in June when Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US well being secretary, changed the entire impartial vaccine advisers together with his personal handpicked advisers, an unprecedented transfer.
A few of these advisers, in addition to others added in September, are vocal anti-vaccine activists. However the work of the committee isn’t carried out solely by the impartial advisers; it’s supported by CDC workers and out of doors consultants on working teams.
The CDC workers present logistical help and subject-matter experience, they usually be sure that the committee follows guidelines and laws.
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Michael Sainato
British journalist Sami Hamdi was reportedly detained on Sunday morning by federal immigration authorities at San Francisco worldwide airport, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) says that motion is clear retaliation for the Muslim political commentator’s criticism of Israel whereas touring the US.
A press release from Cair mentioned it was “a blatant affront to free speech” to detain Hamdi for criticizing Israel’s ongoing navy marketing campaign in Gaza whereas he engaged on a talking tour within the US. A Trump administration official added in a separate assertion that Hamdi is going through deportation.
“Our attorneys and companions are working to handle this injustice,” Cair’s assertion mentioned. The assertion additionally known as on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “to right away account for and launch Mr Hamdi”, saying his solely “‘crime’ is criticizing a overseas authorities” that Cair accused of getting “dedicated genocide”.
The press secretary for the Division of Homeland Safety, Tricia McLaughlin, wrote of Hamdi in a social media publish: “This particular person’s visa was revoked, and he’s in ICE custody pending elimination”.
McLaughlin’s publish additionally mentioned: “Those that help terrorism and undermine American nationwide safety is not going to be allowed to work or go to this nation.”
Throughout his tour, Hamdi spoke on Saturday on the annual gala for Cair’s chapter in Sacramento. He was anticipated to talk on Sunday on the gala for the Florida chapter of Cair.
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Treasury secretary Scott Bessent celebrated Japan’s Nikkei share common closing above the 50,000 stage for the primary time on Monday, in a gathering with Japanese finance minister Satsuki Katayama in Tokyo.
“It’s an honor to be right here on the day it went over 50,000”, Bessent instructed Katayama. “Congratulations,” he added.
“I’ve been coming since 1991,” mentioned Bessent, a former hedge fund supervisor recognized for having made hefty earnings for betting in opposition to the yen within the 2010s.
Bessent arrived in Japan on Monday night as a part of the Asia tour of high US officers led by president Donald Trump and met Katayama for the primary time in particular person since she took workplace final week.
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Trump says he wouldn’t run for vice-president in 2028
President Donald Trump mentioned on Monday he would rule out working for the vice-presidency within the 2028 US election, an strategy a few of his supporters have floated to permit the Republican president to serve a further time period in workplace.
“I’d be allowed to try this,” Trump mentioned, in an alternate with reporters aboard Air Drive One.
However he added:
I wouldn’t do this. I believe it’s too cute. Yeah, I’d rule that out as a result of it’s too cute. I believe the individuals wouldn’t like that. It’s too cute. It’s not – it wouldn’t be proper.
Nobody could also be elected to the US presidency a 3rd time, in accordance with the twenty second Modification of the US Structure.
Some have advised that a method round this prohibition can be for Trump to face as vice-president, whereas one other candidate stood for president and resigned, letting Trump once more assume the presidency.
Opponents have disputed whether or not this may be authorized.
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Ramon Antonio Vargas
The Trump administration’s navy airtrikes in opposition to boats off Venezuela’s coast that the White Home claims have been getting used for drug trafficking are “extrajudicial killings”, mentioned Rand Paul, the president’s fellow Republican and US senator from Kentucky.
Paul’s robust feedback on the subject got here on Sunday throughout an interview on Republican-friendly Fox Information, three days after Donald Trump publicly claimed he “can’t think about” federal lawmakers would have “any downside” with the strikes when requested about looking for congressional approval for them.
US forces in latest weeks have carried out at the least eight strikes in opposition to boats within the Caribbean off Venezuela’s coast, killing about 40 people who the Trump administration has insisted have been concerned in smuggling medication.
Talking with Fox Information Sunday anchor Shannon Bream, Paul asserted that Congress has “gotten no info” on the marketing campaign of strikes from Trump’s administration – regardless of the president claiming the White Home can be open to briefing the federal lawmakers concerning the offensive.
“Nobody mentioned their title, nobody mentioned what proof, nobody mentioned whether or not they’re armed, and we’ve had no proof introduced,” Paul mentioned of the focused boats or these on board. He argued that the Trump administration’s actions recall to mind the best way China and Iran’s repressive governments have beforehand executed drug smugglers.
“They summarily execute individuals with out presenting proof to the general public,” Paul contended in his dialog with Bream. “So it’s mistaken.”
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Trump will get royal welcome in Japan as he meets emperor
Whats up and welcome to the US politics stay weblog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I might be bringing you all the most recent information strains over the subsequent few hours.
We begin with the information that president Donald Trump obtained a royal welcome on Monday in Japan, the most recent leg of a five-day Asia journey which he hopes to cap with an settlement on a commerce warfare truce with Chinese language president Xi Jinping.
Trump, making his longest journey overseas since taking workplace in January, introduced offers with 4 Southeast Asian nations throughout the first cease in Malaysia and is anticipated to satisfy Xi in South Korea on Thursday, Reuters reported.
Trump shook fingers with officers on the tarmac and gave a number of fist pumps, earlier than his helicopter whisked him off for a scenic night time tour of Tokyo. His motorcade was later seen coming into the Imperial Palace grounds, the place he met Japanese emperor Naruhito.
Trump has already gained a $550-billion funding pledge from Tokyo in alternate for respite from punishing import tariffs.
President Donald Trump, left, and Japan’s Emperor Naruhito shake fingers throughout their assembly on the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Oct. 27, 2025. {Photograph}: Issei Kato/AP
Japan’s newly elected prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is hoping to additional impress Trump with guarantees to buy US pickup vehicles, soybeans and gasoline, and announce an settlement on shipbuilding, sources with data of the plans instructed Reuters.
Takaichi, who grew to become Japan’s first feminine premier final week, instructed Trump that strengthening their nations’ alliance was her “high precedence” in a phone name on Saturday.
Trump mentioned he was trying ahead to assembly Takaichi, a detailed ally of his late buddy and {golfing} companion, former prime minister Shinzo Abe, including: “I believe she’s going to be nice.”
In different developments:
The US and China have agreed a framework for a commerce deal simply days earlier than Donald Trump and Chinese language president Xi Jinping are as a consequence of meet. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent mentioned the settlement, cast on the sidelines of the Affiliation of south-east Asian Nations (Asean) summit in Malaysia on Sunday, would take away the specter of the imposition of 100% tariffs on Chinese language imports beginning on 1 November and embody “a ultimate deal” on the sale of TikTok within the US.
Trump has overseen the signing of a ceasefire settlement between Thailand and Cambodia on the primary day of an Asia tour. The US president arrived in Malaysia on Sunday earlier than the Asean summit within the capital, Kuala Lumpur. At a ceasefire ceremony in entrance of an indication that learn “Delivering Peace”, the Thai prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, and his Cambodian counterpart, Hun Manet, signed an expanded ceasefire deal associated to a lethal five-day battle in July.
The council of American-Islamic relations (Cair) has accused the Trump administration of a “blatant affront to free speech” after federal immigration authorities detained British journalist, Sami Hamdi, on Sunday. The Muslim civil rights group claimed that Hamdi had been detained at San Fransisco airport for criticising Israel’s ongoing navy marketing campaign in Gaza. Hamdi is considered one of a number of individuals who have been arrested and deported by ICE for expressing pro-Palestinian views.
On the day that his supporters attacked the US Capitol as a result of his 2020 re-election run led to defeat, Donald Trump known as his vice-president on the time, Mike Pence, and instructed him he would go down in historical past as a “wimp” if he licensed the election end result, a brand new e-book says.
Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, instructed CBS Information Sunday Morning he plans to decide on whether or not to run for president in 2028 as soon as the 2026 midterm elections are over. “Yeah, I’d be mendacity in any other case,” Newsom mentioned in response to a query on whether or not he would give severe thought to a White Home bid after the 2026 elections. “I’d simply be mendacity. And I’m not – I can’t do this.”
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