A critical summit takes place in Alaska today.

Fewer Americans are hitting the bottle.

And human hair may hold the secret to better toothpaste.

That's some of what we'll get to on the 7 from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Friday, August 15th. Let's get

you caught up with today's seven stories. Number one, President Donald Trump has a high-stakes

meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Today, in Anchorage, the two presidents will speak one-on-one

with only their interpreters present. That conversation will be followed by a wider meeting

between their country's delegations. The summit is designed as a step toward ending Russia's war

against Ukraine. But Ukraine and Russia remain far apart on what they would

accept as a peace deal. And Ukrainian president Volodomir Zelenskyi has not been invited to the summit.

Trump gave a preview of the talks at the White House yesterday. I think it's going to be very interesting.

We're going to find out where everybody stands. And I'll know within the first two minutes, three minutes, four minutes or five minutes, like we tend to find out whether or not we're going to have a good meeting or a bad meeting. And if it's a bad meeting, it'll end up very quickly. And if it's a good meeting, we're going to end up getting peace in the pretty near future.

Zelensky has ruled out surrendering land to Russia,

and he has called his exclusion from today's meeting a victory for Putin.

Number two is a post-exclusive.

ICE documents revealed plans to double immigrant detention space this year.

When President Trump returned to office in January, the U.S. already had the largest immigrant detention system in the world.

It had capacity for about 50,000 migrants.

But right away, Trump's administration set a goal of doubling it. An internal planning roadmap

obtained by the Post shows for the first time exactly how immigration authorities plan to reach

that goal. Under the plans,

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