Anchorage, Putin and Trump
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Over 100 protesters, including many Ukraine supporters, took to the streets of Alaska’s biggest city on Thursday night ahead of the highly anticipated meeting between
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The Aviationist on MSNB-2 Stealth Bomber and Four F-35s Fly Over Anchorage During Trump–Putin Meeting
B-2 bomber and F-35s stage an impressive flyover watched by hundreds of thousands online as Trump and Putin meet in Anchorage.A U.S. Air Force B-2A Spirit
It’s a packed weekend between the fair, local concerts, farmers' markets, a bike tour, a clothing swap and more.
Also new: a bike cargo gear showroom, a nail salon, a brewpub, a cat cafe in Wasilla, and a “cafe within a cafe.” A trampoline park in the Northway Mall is closing, as well.
As Putin steps onto this patch of US soil later today, he will surely be hoping to strike a better deal than his country’s imperial leaders, who ruled Alaska as “Russian America” for nearly 70 years before selling it to the US in 1867 for just $7.2m.
There seems to be very little standing in the way of stock-market bulls right now, but what follows a U.S./Russia summit in Alaska, a central bank shin-dig in Wyoming and the outcome of Bolivia's election may imbue them with some caution.
Anchorage police Chief Sean Case said he decided to end the practice of not naming victims after a Daily News story showed it had no legal basis and was raising concerns among families and advocates.
As anticipated, the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage ended without a ceasefire, or even a road map to halt Russia’s three-and-a-half-year invasion of Ukraine.