Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, an envoy for President Trump, suggested that a peace deal was still distant.
European leaders are joining a trip to Washington to make sure the trans-Atlantic alliance remains intact....
The Alaska summit between the U.S. and Russian leaders showcased their mutual animosity for the former president....
Evacuees at a shelter in eastern Ukraine reacted angrily to talk that land that has long been theirs could be given to Russia in exchange for peace....
President Trump offered security guarantees to deter future Russian aggression. But the offer was vague, prompting Kyiv to seek clarity....
Speaking after Friday’s summit, President Putin again implied that the war is all about Russia’s diminished status since the fall of the Soviet Union....
Halibut Olympia, a Tuesday-night kind of recipe, was part of the planning (if not the eating) at the Friday meeting....
At their meeting in Alaska, President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia both understood the power of the summit’s imagery, regardless of whether they achieved their goals....
President Trump’s break from a strategy agreed to with European allies could give President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia an edge as talks to end the fighting continue....
Nearly two years of demonstrations have failed to push Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a deal with Hamas that would end the war and free the remaining captives....
The net effect of the Alaska summit was to give President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a free pass to continue his war against his neighbor indefinitely without further penalty, pending talks on a broader peace deal....
While no deal was announced, the Russian leader secured some wins and left on good terms with the U.S. president....
With no strategy of their own for ending the war, the continent’s leaders are anxious that President Trump will force Kyiv to accept terms that favor Russia too much....
President Trump’s failure to reach an accord on Ukraine only made his warm welcome for the Russian leader more striking....
President Trump gave President Vladimir Putin a warm public reception, effectively ending his diplomatic isolation over the past three years for his invasion of Ukraine. But Mr. Putin did not agree to stop the war....
President Trump clapped for his guest, Vladimir V. Putin, as he stepped off the plane. But their visit ended with little but an agreement to see each other again — perhaps, Mr. Putin said, “in Moscow?”...
Few East-West meetings have ended with less clarity than Friday’s Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. What was clear, though, was that Vladimir Putin was well satisfied....
For more than 20 years, Western leaders have played right into Putin’s hands — and given one a shake....
Also, D.C. sued Trump over his takeover of the city’s police. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday....
Spared from flying a suicide mission in World War II, he became a grandmaster of Japan’s venerable tea ceremony and used his stature to speak out against all wars....
The two leaders are bringing some old-world approaches to bear on a 21st-century conflict....
A sudden feud, an impasse or a first step toward a cease-fire are all possible at the summit in Alaska as the two leaders navigate thorny issues such as Ukraine’s territory and NATO expansion....
The leaders of the United States and Russia will hold talks at an American military base in Alaska and are expected to hold a news conference afterward....
We have a primer on today’s Trump-Putin summit in Alaska....
The Trump-Putin summit will take place in a former Russian colony that the United States bought for $7.2 million in 1867. Here’s how the deal came together and why its legacy matters....
Plus, your Friday news quiz....
Throughout the beloved series “Sex and the City” and its reboot “And Just Like That …,” the protagonist’s wardrobe was the most reliable through line....
Some have emerged as a front line against Trump’s push to grab more seats in Congress, putting the issue at the center of their party’s politics. Others are ceding the spotlight....
The president said “wokesters” in the performing arts wouldn’t be honored. “A ‘wokester’ sounds like a car your great-grandfather drove after the war,” Meyers said....
Russia’s president has long insisted that Ukraine will be his. But his obsession may cost Russia more than he has bargained for....
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New York Times
