Takeaways from Trump-Zelensky meeting
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Doubts arose over whether Ukraine would be supplied with advanced U.S. Tomahawk missiles ahead of a Zelensky-Trump meeting taking place in the White House.
The military carried out another strike against alleged drug smugglers. John Bolton pleaded not guilty in his classified documents case. Background: Trump introduced the fee for H-1B visas, used for immigrants hired in the U.S. to work in specialty occupations, in an attempt to deter employment of foreign citizens.
A reporter asked Ukraine President Zelensky during an Oval Office Meeting on Friday REPORTER: But to meet that deal, both sides [in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict] had to make concessions. Our president has stuck out his neck in many ways to make a peace deal for your war as well.
Viktor Anisimov, one of Ukraine’s top fashion designers, first met Volodymyr Zelensky about 20 years ago, when the future president was a comedian. He didn’t want to wear a suit then either.
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How Zelensky Won Trump Over
The Ukrainian President arrives at the White House Friday with a wish-list including Tomahawks—and he may get them, writes Tom Nagorski.
President Donald Trump is meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday about whether the U.S. is ready to agree to sell Kiev a long-range missile system that can strike deep into Russia.
The Tomahawks would be “a scalpel, rather than a scythe,” agrees Justin Crump, a former British Army officer and CEO of risk consultancy Sibylline. He says only 20 to 50 could potentially be sent by the US due to stockpile shortages.