We start the day's other headlines with the war in Ukraine.

President Trump said today he's planning to discuss Ukraine's future borders with Russian President

Vladimir Putin when the two meet in Alaska on Friday.

At the White House today, Trump called it a, quote, feel-out meeting, during which he'll

urge Putin to end the war, but not without some territorial concessions on both sides.

There'll be some land swapping going on. I know that through Russia and through conversations

with everybody to the good, for the good of Ukraine. Good stuff, not bad stuff. Also, some bad

stuff for both. European leaders have acknowledged that the odds of Russia relinquishing Ukrainian land

it already controls are low.

And there's mounting fear that the U.S. will agree to land swaps or other terms that favor

Russia without Ukraine's participation.

Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, has not been invited to Friday's meeting

and said in his evening video address that Putin is not interested in peace and in fact is redeploying

forces in ways that point to new military operations. Also today, German Chancellor Friedrich

Mertz invited Trump, Zelensky and other key players to meet before Friday about, quote, further options for action to put pressure on Russia.

Here at home, a federal judge in New York today rejected a Justice Department request to unseal grand jury records from Galane Maxwell's sex trafficking case.

The DOJ said the transcripts of the investigation could reveal new information about crimes

Maxwell committed with Jeffrey Epstein.

The judge called that idea demonstrably false, adding that the DOJ's request to release them

is an attempt to create an illusion of transparency.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison term

for helping Epstein abuse teenage girls.

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