U.S. President Donald Trump’s August summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, is looming large as the White House presses its peace efforts.

Top Senate Republicans sent a letter asking President Trump to allow Kyiv to purchase American weapons using the roughly $5 billion in frozen Russian funds in the US as the Kremlin resists the White House's peace plan to end the Ukraine war.

The time has come for Trump to call Putin’s bluff. Just as important, it is time for the president to recognize that Ukraine holds more cards, relative to Russia, than he might have realized. The Ukrainian frontlines can outlast Putin’s crumbling economy.

Donald Trump still doesn’t seem to have learned a thing about the Russian dictator he calls a friend. He’s tried all kinds of contradictory gambits in pursuit of peace in Ukraine: welcoming Vladimir Putin in Alaska,

MS NOW host Rachel Maddow said the Kremlin is running the United States' foreign policy in an interview on "The Late Show" with host Stephen Colbert. "You know, Russia is a podunk country," Maddow said to Colbert.

The Russian President's India trip comes as relations between Washington and Delhi remain strained, writes Harsh V. Pant.

Did the late Rob Reiner publicly say he was developing a television series about Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump called "The Spy and the Asset"? Yes, that is true: Reiner announced the project in 2020 on the Mehdi Hasan

US President Donald Trump’s emissaries to the Kremlin may have been spinning their wheels during talks last week in Moscow on a possible Ukraine peace deal, but the Russians can now press a new advantage: The widening rift between Washington and Europe.

In 2017, President Trump was alleged to have said to Gen. John Kelly — then his secretary of Homeland Security — “I don’t get it. What’s in it for them?” The question came as they stood over the grave of Kelly’s son, Marine Lt. Robert Kelly, who had been killed while on active duty in Afghanistan in 2010.

European Union leaders are gathering this week at the end of political year dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump.