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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jail Snyder. President Trump is paying a visit to Japan during his diplomacy trip around Asia. He kicked things off by meeting with Japanese Emperor Norahito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. NPR Sage Miller has a preview of what else to expect on this leg of the trip. Trump will sit down with Japan's newly elected conservative prime minister, Sunai Takayishi, early Tuesday morning local time. It's their first visit. and she's the nation's first female prime minister. Trade will certainly be a topic of discussion.

Trump has slapped a blanket 15% tariff on Japanese goods. Japan has agreed to invest $500 billion in the U.S. In a social media post, Prime Minister Takayishi says she hopes to work with Trump to build a stronger alliance. Trump will end his Asia trip in South Korea, where he's expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit of Asian leaders. Sage Miller and PR News.

Trump and China's leader expected to discuss the framework of a deal that could ease tariff tensions. Ahead of the meeting, all three U.S. stock indexes set all-time highs for the second day in a row. Government shut down in its 27th day, an air traffic controllers set to miss their first full paychecks tomorrow is Marlon Hyde of member station WABE reports. Barring any last-minute efforts to reopen the government or approve a pay package for air traffic controllers, they will mark the first missed paycheck for the federal employees trusted with watching our skies. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association says its members will hand out informational leaflets about the effects of the shutdown at 22 airports, including in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. Some airports are already reporting shortages. Air traffic controllers will receive back pay after the shutdown ends,

but their labor union says many started second jobs to pay their bills during the last. shutdown. For NPR news, I'm Marlon Hart in Atlanta. Jamaica, bracing for what could be the biggest storm in its history, Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, expected to make landfall early tomorrow morning. Here's NPR's Michael Levitt reporting. Melissa is expected to be slow-moving and brutal, with up to 40 inches of rain predicted in some areas. Flooding and storm surges as high as 13 feet threatened coastal communities, while communities on hillsides face the potential for dangerous mudslides. Peter Lindau is a resident. of Norbrook, a suburb in the foothills north of Kingston. He says he's bracing not just the weather

of the storm, but also for what comes after. I'm expecting that we won't have power for several days. I'm expecting that communication will be compromised for several days. Roads will be blocked. Living will be difficult for a few days. Earlier, Lindau dropped off supplies to his elderly mother, who lives across town. He says he hopes it's enough to sustain her through the storm and its aftermath. This is NPR. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is resuming abortion services. A group had paused them, citing federal Medicaid funding cuts in President Trump's tax and spending bill known as a Big Beautiful Bill Act. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin resumed offering abortion services today, saying it no longer fits the definition of a prohibited entity under the law because it relinquished

its status as an essential community provider. A 22-year-old man, of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk will be allowed to wear street clothes in court, but will still have to wear shackles. A judge in Utah made that ruling today after Tyler Robinson's lawyers argued that images of him in jail clothing and shackles could prejudice future jurors. Utah prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty. Halloween trend is scaring up customers or car washes all over the country, and Björs Netta Ulavie has more. Fast splash car wash has about a dozen locations. This one in Detroit is only haunted on the weekends leading up to Halloween. Employees costumed as ghouls and horror movie monsters, tap on your windows and brandish chainsaws as you

wait in line for a wash. The tunnel is lit blood red. Evil clowns pop out to scare you. Or, okay, to scare me. No one's keeping track of the exact number of haunted car washes, but at least one national chains as it's adding more of them every year. Tommy's Express has hundreds of locations from Virginia to Alaska. It says half of its car washes are haunted over Halloween. Netta Ulibe, NPR News. And I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News.