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At the top of her Friday show, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace couldn't help but notice the touchy-feely nature of Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as the two leaders met on the red carpet in Alaska.

Trump welcomed the Russian president with applause and several friendly touches, Wallace said, before the two men entered the presidential limousine known as "The Beast."

A New York Times reporter flagged what she called one "unusual" element of a high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin — it was awfully quiet.

Trump and Putin participated in a bizarre standoff, with each trying to outwait the other on deplaning in Alaska. As the two walked down the tarmac and shook hands, Times reporter Katie Rogers, who is traveling with Trump, flagged a notable facet of their meeting.

Former congressman and chief of staff to President Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, expressed his concern that Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump were in the limousine together alone as they headed toward their summit.

CNN commentators recalled that Trump wanted to invite North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un into the limo known as "the beast" when the two had their meeting. The Secret Service at the time advised against it.

A CNN anchor called out President Donald Trump on Friday afternoon as he rolled out the red carpet for Russian President Vladimir Putin at the start of a high-stakes summit in Alaska.

Trump and Putin were meeting on Friday to discuss ending the ongoing invasion in Ukraine. The discussions were taking place at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a stand-off on the tarmac in Alaska because there was a disagreement over which president would deplane first.

Russia announced Friday morning that Trump would deplane and walk over to Putin's plane to welcome him to the United States, a PBS News report said. That didn't happen, however.

As part of the ongoing battle against President Donald Trump's "hostile takeover" of Washington, D.C., key congressional Democrats introduced a resolution on Friday to terminate his executive order, "Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia."

The resolution explains that Trump "has failed to identify special conditions of an emergency nature that compel the use of the
Metropolitan Police Department for federal purposes," and "even if properly invoked for an actual emergency, Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act does not empower the president to federalize" the MPD.

President Donald Trump is no longer having a meeting alone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, CNN's Kaitlan Collins reported ahead of the meeting.

She noted that a White House official told reporters on Air Force One that other people would join in the meeting. Collins noted that it was just a few days ago that press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed it would be a one-on-one meeting. By Friday, however, that changed to a three-on-three.

The Department of Defense claimed on social media that its recruitment of women into the armed forces is going great. The problem, however, is that when they bragged about it in an interview, artificial intelligence photos were used.

AI-generated images were part of an effort to "make it seem like the government’s recruitment efforts are actually working," The New Republic reported Friday.

As Donald Trump’s trade war kicks into high gear, consumers are already reporting that they are feeling it in their pocketbooks — and that is going to come back to haunt Republican lawmakers.

According to a Friday afternoon editorial from the conservative Wall Street Journal, if GOP lawmakers lose their seats in next year's midterms, they can look back ruefully to the time when they let the president go wild with tariffs.

The White House posted a video of a large number of U.S. Marshals and FBI agents in riot gear with shields marching through the halls of an apartment building to calmly arrest what has become known as the "Sandwich Guy."

On Sunday, a man in a pink shirt raged at police on the streets of Washington, D.C. before he threw his foot-long sandwich at them. The "sandwich slinger," allegedly lawyer Sean Dunn, was released without charge.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom fired off Thursday at President Donald Trump for his federal takeover of Washington, D.C. — and suggested the president look instead to cities represented by leaders of his own party.

“I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, in Speaker [Mike] Johnson’s district that has six-plus times the per-capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco,” Newsom said, speaking with MSNBC contributor and YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen.

A recovery advocate who helps those with substance abuse confessed that the biggest mistake he's made in his own journey of sobriety was in supporting President Donald Trump in 2024.

Writing in a column for The Nevada Independent, Rob Banghart explained that after years of opioid addiction, he was finally able to find recovery. He has overdosed 15 times, and each time was "pulled back from the brink of death," he wrote.

A federal judge has called a 2 p.m. hearing for Friday in the case against the Trump administration over its federal takeover of Washington, D.C., and could issue an order to halt the operation “within hours,” according to Politico reporter Kyle Cheney.

Washington, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit Friday morning against the Trump administration over its “hostile takeover” of the city, with more than 1,500 federal troops currently patrolling the city’s streets and making arrests. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, however, who’s been assigned the case, could put a halt to the operation swiftly.