Paypal said on Tuesday that it is adopting a protocol in combination with OpenAI's "Instant Checkout" feature to let users pay for their shopping directly within ChatGPT, starting in 2026.

The Trump administration initiated a purge of top officials in Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid growing frustration over the rate of deportations, NBC News and Fox News reported on Monday night. While NBC News reported that the administration “is planning to replace some regional leaders” at ICE with officials from Customs and Border Protection, Fox News’s Bill Melugin said the purge is “underway.”

Democrats appear to be unmoved by fresh demands from the largest federal employees’ union to reopen the government, a sign that the shutdown stalemate between lawmakers will continue as government workers increasingly feel the pain during the process. It’s the latest example of how pressure points have not had the power to bring an end to the current shutdown, which is already the second longest in US history with no end in sight. Over one million federal workers are going unpaid as the impasse drags on and some are turning to food pantries.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi signed a framework agreement on Tuesday for securing the supply of rare earths, as both countries aim to reduce China's dominance of some of the key electronic components. The leaders signed the documents, which included critical minerals, at the neo-Baroque-style Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, beneath three chandeliers decorated from top to bottom with gold ornamentation, as aides applauded.

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and other major airports around the country have suffered delays in recent days due to the Democrats’ shutdown of the federal government, which has lasted nearly four weeks. The Los Angeles Times reported that the shutdown in Washington, DC, caused a brief ground stop at LAX:

A senior US diplomat rejected Hungary’s arguments that the country’s landlocked status left it no choice but to rely on Russian oil, as Washington raises pressure on Budapest to find alternative suppliers. “There’s a lot of planning that our friends in Hungary should do and we’re going to help them obviously, as a good ally, to make those plans and execute them to get them off of Russian oil and gas,” US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said in a Fox News interview on Sunday.

One of Russia's largest industrial empires will quit its international operations after being targeted by hard-hitting U.S. sanctions, as President Donald Trump steps up efforts to force the Kremlin to end its war in Ukraine. In a statement on Monday evening, Moscow-headquartered energy giant Lukoil confirmed it had begun looking for buyers for its foreign ventures.

The FBI has arrested what the bureau alleges is an "anarchist" in connection to a social media post to kill Attorney General Pam Bond for $45,000. Tyler Maxon Avalos, 29, was arrested on Oct. 16 after the FBI was alerted by a tipster to the alleged murder-for-hire that the defendant allegedly posted on social media earlier this month, the New York Post reported Monday. Avelos was charged with interstate transmission of a threat to injure another person.