Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst.

As President Trump gets ready to meet with Russian President Putin in Alaska tomorrow,

to possibly broker and end to Russia's war in Ukraine, Trump says he'll know in the first few minutes

whether Putin is serious about peace.

But he says it's a potential second meeting that would be the most important.

We have a meeting with President Putin tomorrow.

I think it's going to be a good meeting, but the more important meeting will be the second meeting that we're having. We're going to have a meeting with President Putin tomorrow. I think it's going to be a good meeting, but the more important

meeting will be the second meeting that we're having. We're going to have a meeting with

President Putin, President Zelensky, myself, and maybe we'll bring some of the European

leaders along, maybe not. Trump also warned that tomorrow's meeting may not go well, in which case

he says he would immediately return to Washington. He suggested last

week that a ceasefare deal may include some swapping of territories. That's something Ukrainian President

Selensky says he's against. And President Trump has ordered people living on the streets in

Washington, D.C. to move into shelters or leave the city. Today, officials move to break up homeless

encampments. And Pierce Brian Mann reports.

A bulldozer clears away a tent from this camp near the Lincoln Memorial, dumping debris into a

garbage truck. David Beatty, a man in his 60s, has lived here for months. It just feels wrong to me.

The idea that we're poor makes them uncomfortable, and they don't want to be reminded that poor people exist.

During a press conference this week, Trump said people living in camps like this one

are turning the nation's capital into what he described as a wasteland and have to go.

Critics say neither Trump nor local leaders have done enough to make housing more affordable

for low-income

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