President Biden welcomes Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House. The visit marks Japan’s increasing military posturing amid concerns about China, North Korea and Russia.

NPR’s Juana Summers talks to Paddy Hirsch about a discovery of rare earth minerals in Sweden, which can have implications for the global economy and climate.

Kyiv claims that fierce fighting continues in the small eastern Ukrainian town of Soledar, near Bakhmut, with tanks on the outskirts firing from the roadside and explosions on the horizons of the surrounding farmland.

A Texas-born Italian princess faces eviction from a Roman villa which has the world’s only known mural painted by the renaissance artist Caravaggio, as part of a bitter inheritance battle over the future of the unique property.