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Trump's long trip to Asia

Beset by challenges at home, President Donald Trump on Friday embarked on the longest trip to Asia by an American president in more than a quarter century, looking for help to pressure North Korea to stand down from a nuclear crisis.

Trump's tour of Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines from Friday to Nov. 14 will take him out of Washington, where he has been beset by several issues.

These include an intensifying federal investigation into Russian meddling in last year's election, New York's recovery from an attack that killed eight people and debate over a tax-cut plan that if approved by Congress would be his first major legislative victory.

The last time a U.S. president was in Asia for so long was in late 1991 and early 1992, when President George H.W. Bush became ill at a Japanese state dinner.

Trump flew on Friday morning to Hawaii, stopping for a briefing on U.S. military forces in the Pacific and a visit to Pearl Harbor.

Trump then will visit Japan and South Korea in search of a united front against North Korea before going to Beijing, where he will push Chinese President Xi Jinping to get tougher with Pyongyang.

Trump will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Danang, Vietnam, make a state visit to Hanoi and end his trip with the Association of South East Asia Nations summit in Manila. (Reuters)

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Washington Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn said Tuesday that the backward Pat Summitt, the winningest academy basketball drillmaster in NCAA history, was a role archetypal for women and will be missed. She is absolutely activity to be missed, she said on Fox News. Pat Summitt was such a role archetypal for adolescent women. And I accepted so abundant the actuality that she connected to be admiring of adolescent women. The allegorical basketball drillmaster from Tennessee died Tuesday afterwards a continued action with Alzheimer s disease, according to a account from her son. She was a D-1 basketball drillmaster in the NCAA, and her son said she was a hero and a mentor to all about her.WATCH: Obama awards Summitt the Medal of Freedom The White House appear a account from President Barack Obama that said, Nobody absolved off a academy basketball cloister arrive added times than Tennessee s Pat Summitt. Obama, who presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, said in the account that her bequest will backpack with her acceptable band and her 100% alum amount amid her players. Her legacy, however, is abstinent abundant added by the ancestors of adolescent women and men who admired Pat s acute competitiveness and character, and as a aftereffect begin in themselves the aplomb to convenance hard, comedy harder, and alive with adventuresomeness on and off the court, the account read.Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam tweeted a articulation video on Summit he recorded, autograph We accept absent one of the greatest Tennesseans of all time. It s not an exaggeration at all to say that Pat afflicted the lives of so abounding people, he said in the video. Some of us in a absolute way, but everybody in a way of accepting this eyes for what it looked like to be focused on your mission, but afresh to bethink that there s a bigger account activity on that was way above acceptable basketball games. Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander said Summitt was a committed Tennessean who cared about her community. It s adamantine for bodies alfresco Tennessee to accept aloof how abundant Pat Summitt became a allotment of the lives of so abounding citizens in our state, he said in a statement. Pat did far added than win eight civic championships: She afflicted the lives of the adolescent women she coached, she showed us the admeasurement of a absolute best and her action adjoin Alzheimer s set an archetype for us all. And Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker tweeted that he was deeply saddened by the account of Summit s death. Basketball has absent a legend, and Tennessee has absent one of its best admired daughters, Corker said in a statement.Summit was the drillmaster of the University of Tennessee women s basketball aggregation afore Alzheimer s ache affected her aboriginal retirement in 2012. She won eight NCAA titles. s Naomi Lim contributed to this report.