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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday vowed Japan's continued support for Ukraine to achieve a "just and lasting peace" in his first face-to-face meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Ishiba, who attended the Group of Seven summit in Canada's Kananaskis, said Japan will host an international conference to discuss the issue of landmines in the war-torn Ukraine on Oct. 22, according to the government.

Zelenskyy explained the war situation in his country and its future plans, the Japanese government said, without providing further details.

Zelenskyy visited Canada to attend part of the two-day G7 summit through Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump was also in Canada, but returned home earlier than scheduled on Monday.

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The NAACP announced it will not invite President Trump to its national convention in July. The civil rights organization is breaking from its 116-year tradition of welcoming the sitting U.S. president to the annual event that draws NAACP supporters from around the country.

The group says Trump is the first president it has declined to invite.

NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson made the announcement Monday at a news conference in Charlotte, N.C., where the convention is scheduled to be held. The group also shared a statement from Johnson.

"Donald Trump is attacking our democracy and our civil rights … The president has signed unconstitutional executive orders to oppress voters and undo federal civil rights protections," Johnson said. "… he continually undermines every pillar of our democracy to make himself more powerful and to personally benefit from the U.S. government."

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Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump.

The new rules, obtained by the Guardian, also apply to psychologists, dentists and a host of other occupations. They have already gone into effect in at least some VA medical centers.

Medical staff are still required to treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion and sex, and all veterans remain entitled to treatment. But individual workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law.

Language requiring healthcare professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated.

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A federal judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a policy requiring identity documents to reflect an individual’s sex “at conception” to all transgender, nonbinary and intersex Americans who want to change the sex designation on their passports.

A previous ruling, handed down in April, had ordered the State Department to allow only six trans and nonbinary plaintiffs named in a federal lawsuit to obtain passports with sex designations matching their gender identity while the case proceeds. The lawsuit, filed in February in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, argues the administration’s policy “is motivated by impermissible animus.”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) spokesperson responded to President Trump’s refusal to call him following the shooting of two Minnesota state lawmakers.

“Governor Walz wishes that President Trump would be a President for all Americans, but this tragedy isn’t about Trump or Walz,” spokesperson Teddy Tschann said in a statement Tuesday.

State of Minnesota, and the Governor remains focused on helping all three heal,” he continued.

Walz previously served in the state Legislature with Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (D), and confirmed her death Saturday at a press conference.

Trump told reporters early Tuesday during his flight back from the Group of Seven summit that he would not be calling Walz.

“I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. I’m not calling,” Trump said. “Why would I call him?”

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Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) teared up during a Tuesday speech on the Senate floor while recounting being “physically” and “aggressively forced out” of last week’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) press conference in Los Angeles.

The Democratic lawmaker said his federal escorts “stood by silently” as he was wrestled to the ground for interrupting DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday.

“I was physically and aggressively forced out of the room, even as I repeatedly announced I was a United States senator and I had a question for the secretary. Even as the National Guardsman and the FBI agent who served as my escorts and brought me into that press briefing room stood silently, knowing full well who I was,” Padilla said on the floor.

He said agents forced him to the ground flat on his chest, while his thoughts raced.

“I pray you never have a moment like this,” Padilla said, with a choked voice, as he referenced Noem.

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A truck carrying one of the Army M1 Abrams tanks that participated in President Donald Trump's parade in honor of the service's 250th birthday struck and killed a woman in Washington.

The accident occurred on the evening of June 16 – two days after the parade – on New York Avenue while a contract truck driver was hauling the tank from the West Potomac Park staging area to a railyard in Jessup, Maryland, according to an internal Army document obtained by USA TODAY. The truck was part of a larger convoy of vehicles.

The woman, whose name was not included in the document, was alone at the time of her death.

Officers with Washington's Metropolitan Police Department responding to a call in the city's Northeast area just after 9:30 p.m. found "an adult female, unconscious and not breathing, suffering from life-threatening injuries," according to police spokesman Freddie Talbert.

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