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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has called Trump’s takeover ‘authoritarian’

Trump agrees to follow-up summit with Putin, Zelenskyy, and warns ‘severe consequences’ unless Russia agrees to truce.

On Wednesday, Russia announced that it has partially restricted audio calls on Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta Platforms, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:META) WhatsApp and Pavel Durov's Telegram, signaling another move to tighten internet control ahead of President Donald Trump's scheduled meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Here are the key events on day 1,267 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Nato chief commends Berlin’s decision while Ukrainian leader says Putin trying to apply military pressure on Ukraine before Trump meeting. What we know on day 1,268

President’s crackdown in DC widens as he seeks greater power over authorities – key US politics stories from 13 August 2025

The French president took ‘very tough positions,’ and reportedly told Trump that the meeting was ‘a very big thing’ to give Putin

New York’s attorney general has sued the parent company of the Zelle payment platform, months after the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau abandoned a similar case under the Trump administration

ANALYSIS: Wall Street, his own cabinet and numerous civic guardrails stopped Trump from indulging in his own impulses in the first term. Now, Eric Garcia writes, he feels he can do whatever he wants

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Seven months after Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term as US president, we are facing the most important moment in Australia’s foreign policy since the Iraq war. Australia needs to have a national conversation on the future of its alliance with the United States.