Trump Presses for Ukraine Peace, Ballot Stuffing Rocks Hamtramck, DC Sues Over Crime Crackdown

President Trump’s high-stakes diplomacy continues—after a “warm” Alaska summit where Putin admitted the Ukraine war never would’ve started under Trump, today he hosts President Zelensky at the White House with peace talks on the line. Back home, Michigan State Police are probing Hamtramck ballot-stuffing caught on city cameras just before the primary, adding to last week’s election-fraud charges against two council members. And in Washington, D.C., local leaders are suing the Trump administration over his federal crime crackdown, blasting it as overreach while the White House says it’s about restoring order.

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After Friday’s Alaska summit, Trump said talks with Putin ‘went very well’—and Putin stunned observers by agreeing the Ukraine war wouldn’t have started if Trump had been president. No cease-fire was struck, but a blueprint for a peace deal is in the works.

President Trump is scheduled to meet with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy today at the White House in an attempt to resolve Russia’s war in Ukraine and come to a deal.

PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS ZELENSKYY CAN END THIS WAR — on the eve of the talks, Trump said Ukraine could end the war “almost immediately” if Kyiv drops the NATO bid and accepts Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Caught on camera in Hamtramck: city surveillance video shows drivers stuffing a ballot drop box outside City Hall in the days before the Aug. 5 primary; Michigan State Police confirm they’re investigating. Separately, two Hamtramck council members were charged and arraigned last week in a 2023 election-fraud case; no arrests have been announced from the new video yet.
D.C. sues Trump administration over clean-up efforts.