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JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MARYLAND - AUGUST 15: U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One on August 15, 2025 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. President Trump is traveling to Anchorage, Alaska, for peace talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the war in Ukraine. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

President Trump en route to Alaska for high-stakes Putin talks

President Donald is officially on his way to Anchorage, Alaska to participate in a what he has titled as a “HIGH STAKES!!!” summit with Russia President Vladimir Putin.

Ukrainian service members of the 25th Sicheslav Airborne Brigade fire a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launch system towards Russian troops near the frontline town of Pokrovsk, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine April 19, 2025. REUTERS/Anatolii Stepanov/File Photo

What a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire deal could mean for global markets

World markets are watching closely as President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska later on Friday to seal a possible ceasefire agreement in Ukraine.

An aerial view of downtown Anchorage, Alaska, with the Chugach Mountains in the background, on August 14, 2025, ahead of the August 15 scheduled meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump on Thursday acknowledged his high-stakes summit with Vladimir Putin may fail, and said any Ukraine deal would come through a future three-way meeting with Kyiv to "divvy things up." Russian President Vladimir Putin flies to Alaska on Friday at the invitation of Trump in his first visit to a Western country since he ordered the 2022 invasion of Ukraine that has killed tens of thousands of people. (Photo by Drew ANGERER / AFP) (Photo by DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)

Anchorage, Alaska mayor says city is ‘prepared and ready’ for Trump-Putin meeting: ‘The crossroads of the world’

Anchorage, Alaska Mayor Suzanne LaFrance, an Independent, has announced that the city is “prepared and ready” for President Donald Trump’s high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin — which is scheduled for Friday this week.

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with German Gref, the CEO of Russia's largest Sber bank, in Moscow on July 29, 2025. (Photo by Mikhail METZEL / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MIKHAIL METZEL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump: Putin is ‘keen on accepting peace deal’ ahead of bilateral meeting, threat of sanctions likely playing a role

President Donald Trump stated on Thursday that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is keen on accepting a peace deal, while suggesting that the threat of sanctions likely played a major role in Moscow accepting the meeting.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (back L) and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (back R) attend a video conference of European leaders with the US President on the Ukraine war ahead of the summit between the US and Russian leaders, on August 13, 2025. European leaders will hold online talks with US President Donald Trump, hoping to convince him to respect Ukraine's interests when he discusses the war with Putin in Alaska on Friday. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump holds virtual meeting with Zelensky and European leaders ahead of Friday’s meeting with Putin

President Donald Trump held virtual meetings with leaders of NATO member states, as well as with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday ahead of Friday’s bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

(Background) U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan stands with acting Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday during the commissioning ceremony for the Coast Guard icebreaker Storis on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025, in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) / (L) Troy Edgar, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, speaks during the commissioning ceremony for the Coast Guard icebreaker Storis. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)

Trump admin commissions first Arctic Icebreaker, transforming U.S. Coast Guard ‘into more agile and capable fighting force’

DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar participated in the commissioning ceremony of the polar icebreaker USCGC Storis in Juneau, Alaska on Sunday — signifying a pivotal milestone in the administration’s initiative to modernize the U.S. Coast Guard into a more agile and capable force — equipped to confront the complex “challenges of the 21st century.”