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South Korean President Lee Jae-myung held a summit with U.S. President Trump at the White House on Monday. A small incident occurred during the meeting, in which Trump praised one of Lee Jae-myung’s pens, unexpectedly causing the share price of South Korean pen company MonAmi Co. to rise to a 19-month high. On Wednesday (27th), it rose by 24% at one point, and the two-day increase was more than 60%.

Trump was fascinated by the pen during his first meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung at the White House on Monday (25th). Bloomberg quoted local media JTBC News as saying that during their meeting, Trump spent nearly two minutes asking about the origins of the wooden pen and held it in his hand until the two entered a closed-door meeting.

Media reports indicate that Trump praised the pen, saying, “This pen is really nice,” “The handwriting is beautiful, and the thickness is nice.” He even asked his assistant to “get me that pen,” prompting laughter.
Lee Jae-myung then gave the pen to Trump, saying, “It will come in handy for your complex signature.”

According to the South Korean media Dong-A Ilbo, the brown pen uses a MonAmi nib, which is engraved with the traditional South Korean phoenix pattern and is handmade by Zenyle in Seoul.

Even as summer vacation draws to a close, many Hong Kong residents are still traveling to Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) reports that today, mainly in eastern and western Japan, temperatures will rise and clear. Tokyo will see temperatures exceed 35°C (a “scorching heat day” in Japanese) for the tenth consecutive day.

NHK reported that this was the 23rd day of intense heat in Tokyo this year, a record high. The Japan Meteorological Agency defines a day as “summer” when the maximum temperature is above 25°C, “true summer” when it is above 30°C, and “extreme heat” when it is above 35°C.

The Japan Meteorological Agency said that as of 11 a.m. today, the temperature in Hatoyama Town, Saitama Prefecture was 36.3°C, Ome City, Tokyo was 36°C, Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture was 35.6°C, Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture and Furukawa City, Ibaraki Prefecture were 35.4°C, and Otsuki City, Yamanashi Prefecture was 35.2°C.

From May to July, 75 people died from heat
stroke. In inland areas such as Kanto, temperatures exceeded 35°C from the morning.

The high temperatures are also leading to an increase in the number of heatstroke cases in Japan. According to data updated on the 26th by the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, 59,000 people were hospitalized for heatstroke nationwide from May to July of this year, including 75 deaths. This figure is the second-highest since comparable data became available in 2015.

Earlier this month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. notched one of his biggest wins of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement when West Virginia became the first state in the country to ban artificial food dyes in school lunches.

Since then, a handful of other Republican governors have raced to join in, banning certain food colorings from kids’ lunches — sometimes prohibiting other chemical additives, too. Some GOP leaders have gone further, slapping warning labels on certain food additives statewide.

Historically the focus of Democrats, including former first lady Michelle Obama — and derided as “nanny state” politics by anti-regulation conservatives — food laws have lately had a windfall of support from the other side of the aisle.

Kennedy’s “Make America Health Again” crusade against food additives, with its strong backing from President Donald Trump, has taken hold in deeply Republican states such as Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma.

“Traditionally, it was a Democratic issue,” Kennedy told ABC News at a press conference on Monday, adding that he is hopeful that Democrats will continue pass food laws in their states despite the “partisan brand” the movement brings.

West Virginia — which has the second-lowest life expectancy rate in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — has taken one of the most stringent approaches, intending to further its ban on artificial dyes and other additives to the whole state by 2028.

Its law closely mirrors those passed by California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed similar bills into law before Kennedy and Trump took office. The California Food Safety Act passed in 2023, which banned four additives statewide, and a second California law passed in 2024, which banned six specific synthetic food dyes from school lunches. Both take effect in 2027.

“Sometimes you find that there are unorthodox partners, but the key is what you’re able to accomplish,” West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrissey, a Republican, told ABC News. If the changes improve health outcomes for West Virginians, it’ll be “a win,” he said.

West Virginia is one of 10 Republican states that have taken steps to regulate food since Kennedy took office. Just two Democratic governors, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer, have signed similar laws in that same timeframe.

At the same time, 11 Republican states have applied to the federal government for waivers to prohibit soda or candy from the food benefits program for low-income Americans, SNAP. The sole Democrat-led state to join in on the SNAP policy change is Colorado.

More states are waiting in the wings, said John Hewitt, senior vice president of state affairs for the Consumer Brands Association, which represents major food companies such as Kraft Heinz.

There’s been at least a tenfold increase in the number of food bills introduced or discussed at the state level, he said, and there’s been a “substantial shift” in which states are interested.

‘Copy and pasting’ Democrats’ food laws into red states

Thomas Galligan, principal scientist for food additives and supplements at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, has worked with states such as California and New York on systemic food reform.

And although CSPI has frequently clashed with Kennedy on his policies at HHS, particularly around vaccines, Galligan said on food, “it’s fair to give credit where it’s due.”

“I mean, the Trump administration, under RFK Jr., has really elevated this issue on the national stage,” he said.

But Galligan pushed back on the characterization that it’s part of Kennedy’s “Make America Health Again” movement, pointing to California’s laws, before Kennedy’s tenure, as the blueprint.

“Most of the bills that we’re seeing are really copy and pasting,” Galligan said.

Why are food laws different for Republicans this time?

For conservatives such as Jeff Singer, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute who studies health policy, the new Republican-led laws around food are a far cry from the days of protesting Obama’s “Lets Move!” campaign and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s attempt to ban Big Gulp soda.

“I clearly remember all of the criticism, particularly on right-wing media, of Mayor Bloomberg,” Singer said. “All the attacks on Michelle Obama for trying to dictate how people should eat, and dictate what should be in school lunches.”

“They were basically saying, ‘keep your nose out of our private affairs, this is not a role for government, we don’t need a nanny state.’ But all of a sudden, they’re all for a nanny state because it was a very good political move to bring RFK into the MAGA movement,” Singer said.

The lack of conservative pushback this time around has left the food industry, a powerful lobbying force, as the primary barrier to passing legislation, said Meghan Enslow, policy associate for the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

“In all of these states, blue and red, there’s been immense lobbying and money spent by the food industry against these bills. And I do wonder if that MAHA narrative is part of what’s allowed red states to ignore that money and the voice of the food industry and pass these bills,” Enslow said.

Kennedy said that a few Democratic governors have told him privately that they intend to get on board.

“They don’t want to call it MAHA because they think that that’s become kind of a partisan brand. I don’t care what they call it,” Kennedy said. “They want to protect their children. And there’s no such thing as Democratic children or Republican children. They’re our children, and we should all care about them.”

LONDON — The Kremlin on Thursday said Russia President Vladimir Putin agreed to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, though a specific date or location has yet to be announced.

Putin adviser Yuri Ushakov said that a “meeting between Putin and Trump (will take place) in the coming days,” adding that “work on the summit has now begun,” the Kremlin says.

Ushakov said that White House special envoy Steve Witkoff had raised the idea of a trilateral meeting between Putin, Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy but that the upcoming meeting would only be between Trump and Putin, the Kremlin said.

“The venue of the meeting between the presidents of the Russian Federation and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, has been agreed, and the Kremlin will inform about it later,” Ushakov said.

Witkoff met with Putin on Wednesday ahead of Trumps’ Friday deadline for Moscow to make peace with Ukraine or face severe sanctions.

Trump, on social media, suggested the meeting between Witkoff and Putin was “highly productive.”

“Great progress was made! Afterwards, I updated some of our European Allies. Everyone agrees this War must come to a close, and we will work towards that in the days and weeks to come,” Trump wrote.

Just last month, Trump said he would impose additional economic measures — including secondary sanctions on Russian fossil fuel export customers, the largest of which are India and China — if Putin failed to agree to a ceasefire by Aug. 8.

Ukraine’s security agency said Sunday it tracked down and killed Russian agents suspected of shooting one of its senior officers to death in the Ukrainian capital.

The Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, said in a statement that the suspected Russian agents were killed in the Kyiv region after they offered resistance to arrest. A video released by the agency showed two bodies lying on the ground.

The agency said earlier that a man and a woman were suspected to be involved in Thursday’s assassination of Ivan Voronych, an SBU colonel, in a bold daylight attack that was caught on surveillance cameras.

Media reports claimed that Voronych was involved in covert operations in Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine and reportedly helped organize Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region last year.

Ukrainian media posted what appeared to be security camera footage showing a man walking through a parking lot with bags being attacked by another man who ran towards the victim.

The suspect fired five times at the victim with a silenced pistol, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing SBU sources. The SBU said the alleged assassins were given the coordinates of a hiding place where they found a pistol with a suppressor, according to the Reuters news agency.

The team that killed Voronych had spent time getting to know his daily schedule and routes, the SBU statement said.

Police in Kyiv previously released video from the crime scene and said that “criminal investigation officers, dog handlers and other services are working at the scene.”

Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine continued to rage on. After a series of massive attacks across Ukraine involving hundreds of exploding drones, Russia launched 60 drones overnight, Ukraine’s air force said. It said 20 of them were shot down and 20 others were jammed.

The Ukrainian authorities reported that four civilians were killed and 13 others injured in Russian attacks on the Donetsk and Kherson regions since Saturday.

High-profile Russians previously targeted

Moscow has accused Kyiv of orchestrating a spate of high-profile killings of Russian military officials or pro-Kremlin commentators since the Kremlin launched its invasion in February 2022.

In April, an explosive device ripped through a parked car near Moscow, killing a senior Russian general. Images from the scene posted on social media showed a blaze that gutted a car.

That attack came four months after another Russian general was killed along with his deputy in an explosion in Moscow.

The blast appeared to be similar to previous attacks on Russians linked to Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine.

Kyiv has in some cases claimed responsibility for previous attacks.

Last year, Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian military’s chemical weapons unit, was killed by a bomb planted in a scooter in Moscow in December. Ukrainian security sources told CBS News the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) killed Kirillov in a special operation.

After Kirillov’s killing, Putin made a rare admission of failings by his powerful security agencies, saying: “We must not allow such very serious blunders to happen.”

In December 2023, Illia Kiva, a former pro-Moscow Ukrainian lawmaker who fled to Russia, was shot and killed near Moscow. The Ukrainian military intelligence lauded the killing, warning that other “traitors of Ukraine” would share the same fate.

Other attacks include the August 2022 car bombing of nationalist Darya Dugina and an explosion in a Saint Petersburg cafe in April 2023 that killed high-profile military correspondent Maxim Fomin, known as Vladlen Tatarsky. A Russian woman, who said she presented the figurine on orders of a contact in Ukraine, was convicted and sentenced to 27 years in prison.