Amid renewed concern among America’s allies about the U.S. president’s commitment to them, Donald Trump is seeking to offer reassuring words after arriving in Japan for the Group of 20 leaders’ summit.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On June 27, 1829, Englishman James Smithson dies in Genoa, Italy. In his will, he said that if his heir, his only nephew, died childless, the estate would go to “the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” The gift raised eyebrows as Smithson had never been to the United States. Six years after his death, his nephew died childless, and in 1836, the U.S. Congress authorized receiving Smithson’s gift, which was valued at about $500,000 at the time. Today, the Smithsonian is comprised of 19 different museums, including the Air and Space Museum, The National Gallery, The National Museum of American History and many others.

VIDEO: Cancer treatments are becoming more precise and less invasive. This often results in treatments that are shorter in duration and can produce better results than traditional cancer therapies. VOA reports on several new developments including testing a tumor’s DNA.

Iran’s wealthy top diplomat, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who has spent a third of his life in the United States, could see Washington sanction his assets and further limit his ability to visit the U.S. in the coming days.

VIDEO: Fifty years ago today, police raided The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village. The violent protests that followed galvanized the gay rights movement in America. A half-century later, society’s attitudes toward the LGBTQ community has evolved, as highlighted in a groundbreaking exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, DC. For some members of the LGBTQ community, the exhibit is deeply personal.

When the Basque terrorist group ETA’s most wanted fugitive, Josu Ternera, accused of ordering a 1987 bombing that killed 11 people in Spain, was arrested across the border in France on May 17, he was using a Venezuelan passport with the false name.