Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett.

And I'm Amna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, President Trump meets with Russia's Vladimir

Putin in Alaska, with the future of the war in Ukraine hanging in the balance.

Washington, D.C. sues the Trump administration for the takeover of its police force, yet another test for the limits of presidential authority.

And dozens of newspapers close in the West and Midwest in the latest disappearance of vital local journalism.

Losing the community's history that has been preserved in those newspapers for years is an enormous

loss of identity.

Welcome to the News Hour.

The meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at an American military base in Anchorage, Alaska,

ended with no apparent resolution to the war in Ukraine, a lofty goal that Mr. Trump set as his objective for today's summit.

It was the first time Putin, who has been indicted for war crimes in Ukraine, has set foot in the

U.S. in a decade. After meeting for about two and a half hours, the two presidents appeared

briefly before the press to read statements and both left Alaska a short time later.

Nick Schifrin is in anchorage tonight

and begins our coverage.

Just south of the Arctic Circle today a possible thaw in normally frosty U.S.

Russia relations. For years in the West, Vladimir Putin has been a pariah. Today he was

a passenger in President Trump's limousine. But in a joint

press appearance, President Trump described today's progress as uneven.

There were many, many points that we agreed on, most of them, I would say, a couple of big

ones that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've made some headway. So there's no deal until there's a deal.

Earlier today with Fox News as Brett Baer, President Trump's goal was explicit.

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