Trump And Putin Set To Meet In Alaska And Newsom Ramps Up Redistricting Fight: Morning Rundown

Trump and Putin beryllium down for talks connected ending nan warfare successful Ukraine astatine a high-stakes acme successful Alaska. Attorney General Pam Bondi is shifting decision-making authority distant from Washington, D.C.’s section constabulary chief. And an invasive tick type recovered successful Connecticut carries nan consequence of a perchance life-threatening bacteria.

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Putin enters talks pinch Trump from a position of strength

Russian President Vladimir Putin may already consciousness for illustration a winner erstwhile he sits down Friday successful Alaska pinch his American counterpart Donald Trump.

The 2 are group to meet astatine a subject guidelines successful Anchorage to talk efforts to extremity nan warfare successful Ukraine, successful a high-stakes acme that marks nan first clip Putin will group ft connected American ungraded successful a decade and his first gathering pinch Trump since 2019. The events are scheduled to statesman astir 3 p.m. ET. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not expected to beryllium included successful nan meeting.

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Putin, who has ruthlessly secured unprecedented powerfulness astatine home, has seen his service yet eke retired a flimsy advantage connected nan battlefield successful Ukraine. Now, invited successful from nan negotiated cold, nan Russian leader heads for Anchorage afloat of praise for Trump’s “energetic and sincere efforts” toward peace. This arsenic Russian drone strikes killed 7 civilians and injured 17 much crossed aggregate Ukrainian regions past nighttime and into today, according to section officials. Ukrainian strikes injured 12 successful Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions, officials said.

In Moscow, location was a sense of assurance successful Putin, though Pavek Grbenyuk, a 45-year-old who said he worked astatine a model manufacturing factory, told NBC News that he thought it was “unlikely thing will alteration dramatically.”

Trump — who is looking to cement his bequest arsenic a “peacemaker” and triumph a Nobel Peace Prize — told European leaders that his extremity is to unafraid a ceasefire and that he does not intend to talk immoderate imaginable divisions of territory. While Putin claims 4 Ukrainian territories — Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson — Zelenskyy and Ukrainian officials person agelong said they would not concede immoderate territory that Russia illegally annexed.

In Ukraine’s eastbound metropolis of Kharkiv, worker Artem Reshetilov, 46, urged Trump not to crook to Putin’s demands: “We don’t person to discuss pinch nan force and springiness up our beloved onshore because this force won’t stop,” Reshetilov said astatine nan ceremonial of his relative Andrei, 38, killed by a Russian artillery onslaught while fighting to take sides Ukraine’s frontlines. “We cognize Russia and they ne'er support agreements,” he added.

Keir Giles, a elder chap astatine London-based deliberation vessel Chatham House, said Putin has already scored a win. “Trump has facilitated Putin’s acceptance backmost into world diplomacy, contempt nan truth that he ought to beryllium uncovering it difficult to travel, fixed his position arsenic an internationally wanted warfare criminal,” he said.

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DEA administrator named ‘emergency’ D.C. constabulary chief

Attorney General Pam Bondi further cemented nan Trump administration’s takeover of D.C. rule enforcement connected Thursday by shifting decision-making authority from its constabulary main and handing it to nan caput of nan Drug Enforcement Administration.

In an question and reply connected Fox News, Bondi previewed an bid by nan Justice Department naming DEA caput Terry Cole arsenic “emergency constabulary commissioner” of nan Metropolitan Police Department, days aft Trump directed nan national authorities to return power of nan section constabulary and deployed nan National Guard successful an effort to mitigate crime successful nan nation’s capital.

The city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, has since pushed backmost against Bondi’s order, while D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb said it was “unlawful” and not based connected immoderate statute. Read nan afloat communicative here.

The move comes hours aft D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith issued an executive bid allowing officers making postulation stops to notify ICE agents astir undocumented immigrants they encounter, NBC Washington reported. The caller argumentation will let immigrants who person not been detained aliases charged pinch a crime to beryllium reported to ICE for imaginable apprehension and deportation. Trump called nan bid a “great step” and suggested nan inaugural could beryllium thing that “could hap each complete nan country.”

Meanwhile, a bum encampment adjacent nan Kennedy Center, for which Trump serves arsenic a chairman, was dismantled by metropolis workers who shoved people’s belongings into garbage trucks. Data shows homelessness successful nan metropolis has importantly dropped complete nan past decade.

Newsom escalates redistricting fight

California Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses nan media aft discussing nan “Election Rigging Response Act” successful Los Angeles connected Aug. 14.Mario Tama / Getty Images

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said nan state’s Legislature will formally motorboat adjacent week an effort to redraw its legislature map, nan latest move successful what has go a nationwide tit-for-tat betwixt Republican- and Democratic-led states complete mid-decade redistricting successful Texas and elsewhere.

At an arena yesterday successful Los Angeles, Newsom called connected authorities lawmakers to o.k. a November ballot measurement that would let them to redraw maps and enact them successful clip for nan 2026 midterm elections. The connection would besides let authorities Democrats to circumvent nan independent committee that usually controls nan map-drawing process successful nan state.

In Texas, nan existent typical legislative convention is group to extremity connected Friday, and authorities Democrats signaled they are inching person to ending their protest. One information of nan Texas Democrats’ return location was that California Democrats propose their ain caller legislature maps. Read nan afloat communicative here.

Read All About It

• Priscilla Presley’s erstwhile business partners accused her of hastening girl Lisa Marie Presley’s death to unafraid her ain spot atop Elvis’ financial kingdom, a bombshell suit alleges.

• Social media posts spreading anti-vaccine myths surged successful nan months and weeks before a shooting past week astatine nan CDC’s office successful Atlanta.

• Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee is 1 of 12 group who will determine whether to trim liking rates adjacent month. His circuit of Mel-O-Cream Donuts successful Springfield, Illinois, could facet into his decision.

• Glacial outburst floods aren’t thing caller successful Alaska, but flooding risks this week to Juneau show really nan threat is shifting to caller areas.

• A 20-year-old American aviator has been stuck successful Antarctica for much than a period aft he was accused of illegally landing there.

Staff Pick: An invasive tick is spreading a little-known, debilitating infection

One of nan lesser known impacts of ambiance alteration is really it’s changing nan behaviour and dispersed of vectors for illustration mosquitos and ticks. Human-to-vector interaction is connected nan emergence arsenic immoderate insects find their measurement to caller places that are becoming warmer and wetter.

We wrote and produced this communicative aft learning astir a formation successful Connecticut that closed for nan play owed to an influx of invasive long-horned ticks, a type only precocious introduced to nan state. One of nan foremost tick experts successful nan country, entomologist Goudarz Molaei, besides conscionable discovered an emerging germs coming successful nan longhorned tick that tin origin a perchance deadly infection successful humans. It’s an alarming combination: an invasive tick that tin reproduce done cloning, perfect ambiance conditions for it to dispersed and nan emergence of a concerning bacteria. — Nidhi Sharma, Climate Unit subordinate shaper and Fiona Bork, Climate Unit intern

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