Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivered this line in response to criticism of President Trump inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to U.S. territory: "He displayed a huge amount of military hardware and then did a flyover.

When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska on Friday, it will be the latest chapter in the 49th state’s long history with Russia — and with international tensions.

Putin’s delegation gifted a retired fire inspector from Anchorage a Ural Gear Up motorcycle with a sidecar, one week after a television crew’s interview with the man went viral in Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin “personally gifted” a Ural bike reportedly valued at $22,000 to a “random” man when he was in Alaska on 15 August to attend a summit with US President Donald Trump.

Despite Trump's belief that the superpowers could work towards a peace deal in Alaska, only Russia will walk away with anything to show for it.

Trump blames Ukraine for ‘taking on nation 10 times your size’ despite Russia being the one that invaded - Russia invaded its sovereign, democratic neighbor in February 2022, sparking the drawn-out wa

For years, Donald Trump criticized presidents for empty threats. He often pointed to then-President Barack Obama failing to enforce his “red line” on Syria using chemical weapons. During his first term in 2017, Trump called it a “blank threat” that cost us “in many other parts of the world.”

Trump on Sunday said “big progress” had been made with Russia on the Ukraine conflict, as envoy Witkoff outlined that Russian President Vladimir Putin signalled for the first time he could accept Nato-style security guarantees for Kyiv.