Donald Trump News Highlights: On tour of disaster-hit North Carolina, Trump threatens to ‘fundamentally overhaul’ FEMA

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, struggling to stabilise his minority government, said Friday he will seek to maintain regional security and prepare for tough negotiations with US President Donald Trump to win his commitment to maintain a strong American presence in the Asia-Pacific.

Ishiba has been seeking to meet with Trump since his election victory in November and is arranging a trip to Washington in the coming weeks.

With a minority government following a significant election loss in October due to voter anger over his party's financial scandals, Ishiba is struggling to stay in power at least until the next major elections this summer.

“With the balance of power in the region making a historic change, we must further deepen Japan-U.S. cooperation and ensure the U.S. commitment to the region to prevent any power vacuum from destabilizing it," Ishiba said in a policy speech to parliament. (AP)

Donald Trump said he would rather not use tariffs against China but called tariffs a "tremendous power."

"But we have one very big power over China, and that's tariffs, and they don't want them, and I'd rather not have to use it, but it's a tremendous power over China," Trump added.

This comes after he said that he had a friendly chat with Chinese President Xi Jinping over issues of mutual interest, and could see a future trade deal being struck with the country.

Kash Patel will appear before a US Senate committee on January 30 for a confirmation hearing to be the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Patel, 44, is the highest-ranking Indian-American nominated by President Donald Trump in his administration. If confirmed, he would be the first-ever Indian American to lead the most powerful American investigation agency.

"The Nomination of Kashyap Pramod Patel to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation" has been scheduled for January 30, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced on Thursday.

Patel would replace Christopher Wray. He is considered to be a loyal supporter of Trump.

“I love the American dream. My story's pretty simple, it's unique, and some of you share in it,” Patel, the former federal prosecutor, said during an inauguration event for Trump early this week. (PTI)

U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast on Thursday that he plans to seek to engage North Korean leader Kim Jong Un anew after the two men developed a working relationship in Trump's first term.

"I'll reach out to him again," Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity.

President Donald Trump's new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration, according to two memos obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

Attorneys in the department's Civil Rights Division were ordered not to file any new complaints, amicus briefs or other certain court papers “until further notice," one of the memos said.

Another memo directed attorneys to notify leadership of any settlements or consent decrees — court-enforceable agreements to reform police agencies — that were finalized by the Biden administration within the last 90 days.

It said the new administration “may wish to reconsider” such agreements, raising the prospect that it may abandon two consent decrees finalised in the final weeks of the Biden administration in Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. (AP)

U.S. President Donald Trump will speak remotely at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland, delivering his first major speech to global business and political leaders.

Trump is due to give a speech and engage in a dialogue at 11 a.m. Eastern time (1600 GMT), according to the meeting schedule. It is not clear what he will discuss.

Trump's nationalist instincts have been on full display since he took office on Monday.

The newly inaugurated president has moved quickly to crack down on immigration, expand domestic energy production, and has threatened to impose steep tariffs on the European Union, China, Mexico and Canada. (Reuters)

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Thursday the kingdom wants to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years, comments that came after President Donald Trump mused about returning to the kingdom as his first foreign trip.The comments from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reported early Thursday by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, came in a phone call with Trump.“The crown prince affirmed the kingdom’s intention to broaden its investments and trade with the United States over the next four years, in the amount of $600 billion, and potentially beyond that,” the report said. (AP)

In his first interview as the 47th President, Donald Trump said that he will act on releasing the files linked to the assassination of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr "immediately."

"I’m going to release them immediately. We’re going to see the information. We are looking at it right now," he said.

Recalling his previous term as the president, Trump said that he could not release these files before due to pressure from the intelligence agencies.

During the interview, Donald Trump said, "I think one thing that's happening is people are learning that Democrats can't govern, and that their policies are terrible. They don't want to see a woman get pummeled by a man in boxing ring... they don't want a child to leave home as a boy and come back two days later as a girl. And there are states where that can happen."

Appearing on an exclusive interview on Fox News, US President Donald Trump said that his predecessor Joe Biden gave pardons to everyone but sadly not himself.

He further called out California Governor Gawin Newsom, a member of the Democratic party, for failing to control the LA wildfires. He said, "Gavin's got one thing he can do. He can release the water that comes from the north. There is massive amount of water there."