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Trump heads to Alaska for high-level talks with Putin

Greenwatch Desk World News 2025-08-15, 11:51pm

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President Donald Trump 's face-to-face high-stakes summit with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday could determine the fate of European security as well as the trajectory of the war in Ukraine. The exclusion of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy already deals a heavy blow to the West’s policy of “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.”


Washington, D.C.'s police department now potentially in open conflict with federal forces over the terms of Trump’s takeover of security in the nation's capital, with the DEA administrator now named “emergency police chief,” a declaration that city leaders say has no basis in law. The attorney general's declaration came after a dispute over how much help police would provide in arresting immigrants, reports UNB.