A timeline of the major moments leading up to the Trump-Putin meeting
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President Donald Trump has been unable to negotiate a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, despite vowing to end the war on Day One of his second term. He’s hoping a highly anticipated sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin will help change that.
President Donald Trump has been unable to negotiate a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, despite vowing to end the war on Day One of his second term. He’s hoping a highly anticipated sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin will help change that. Trump is meeting with Putin face-to-face in Alaska on Friday, the first confab between the two leaders in Trump’s second term. The US president has met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky several times — including a wildly tense public confrontation in February — spoken to both leaders by phone and sent top envoys to help negotiate a ceasefire agreement. Still, Trump and other foreign leaders have said it doesn’t seem like Putin is interested in peace, as the war has dragged on for more than three years. While Trump often speaks of his “very good relationship” with Putin, it’s proving to take more than a phone call, threatening new sanctions or calling the Russian president “absolutely CRAZY” to get him to change course in Ukraine. With that in mind, Trump and White House officials have been trying to temper expectations ahead of Friday, saying it’s not up to him to make a deal. Still, the meeting marks a more aggressive pressure campaign on Putin, as Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with the Russian leader. Here’s a look at some of the major developments that led to this historic meeting:
No politician in modern history has held as much sway over his base as President Donald Trump. And perhaps nothing has mattered more to his political career than that.
A high school senior was charged with federal arson after allegedly setting fire to a sleeping subway passenger in New York early Monday morning.
In several cities, federal agents deployed by the president have detained, chased, shoved, sprayed or shot with projectiles people protesting peacefully.
An 88-year-old Michigan grocery worker received a $1.7 million check Friday, thanks to a remarkable fundraising campaign led by a young Australian social media star.
In Venezuela, daily routines seem undisturbed: children attending school, adults going to work, vendors opening their businesses. But beneath this facade lurks anxiety, fear, and frustration, with some even taking preventative measures against a possible attack amid the tension between the United States and Venezuela.
Heartbreaking pleas for help poured into the Kerrville, Texas, police department’s Telecommunications Center as the deadly catastrophic floods swept across Texas Hill Country in the early hours of July 4.
Rep. Adelita Grijalva said Friday she was pepper-sprayed and pushed around during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Tucson, Arizona, a claim that the Department of Homeland Security swiftly disputed.
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east of Venezuela – the admiral who oversaw the operation told lawmakers on Thursday according to two sources with direct knowledge of his remarks.
The first week of testimony in Brian Walshe’s murder trial in Dedham, Massachusetts, has come to an end. The jury heard from about two dozen witnesses called by the commonwealth in its case against Walshe as prosecutors work to prove he killed his wife, Ana Walshe, around New Year’s Day in 2023.
The US Army officially stood up a new command on Friday to oversee the Army’s activities in the Western Hemisphere in the latest signal of increasing focus on homeland defense.
A former high-level Drug Enforcement agent was indicted on charges of conspiring to traffic drugs and launder millions of dollars for a Mexican cartel.
A federal judge in Florida ordered the unsealing of grand jury transcripts and other records in the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein granting the Justice Department’s request.
The Indiana House approved new congressional maps designed to hand Republicans all nine of the state’s US House seats on Friday, setting the stage for a showdown next week in the state Senate.