Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s president after winning a narrow runoff by fewer than 50,000 votes. She promised a hard-line crime crackdown while opponents warned about her family legacy and demanded investigations into protest deaths.
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President Donald Trump met separately with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. Zelenskyy said the talks covered Patriot interceptor production, while Netanyahu’s visit came amid reported tensions with Trump over Iran and Lebanon.
Funeral ceremonies for late Sen. Lindsey Graham begin Tuesday in Washington, with Netanyahu, Zelenskyy and Trump expected to attend. Newly released documentary footage shows Graham celebrating U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and discussing efforts to influence Trump.
President Trump will deliver the eulogy for Sen. Lindsey Graham at Washington National Cathedral as two days of services begin in the capital and continue in South Carolina. Netanyahu and Zelenskyy are expected to attend the invitation-only cathedral service.
Trump and Netanyahu are set for their first White House meeting since the Iran war began, with disagreements over Iran, Lebanon and U.S. policy testing their alliance. The talks also are expected to cover the Abraham Accords, Gaza and a Lebanon framework agreement.
Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens clashed over super PAC spending, Israel, campaign rhetoric and electability in the final televised debate before Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. The winner is expected to face Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers in November.
Newly released recordings show Joe Biden referring to classified material while speaking with the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir. The tapes were cited in special counsel Robert Hur’s 2024 report, which found Biden improperly retained records but did not recommend charges.
Sen. Rand Paul released more than 1,000 pages of Anthony Fauci’s pandemic-era diary entries ahead of a Senate hearing on COVID-19 origins. The notes show early uncertainty about the virus’s source and detail Fauci’s tensions with Paul and Donald Trump.