
News Wrap: Trump plans to discuss Ukraine border with Putin
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News Wrap: Trump plans to discuss Ukraine's future borders with Putin
In our news wrap Monday, President Trump said he's planning to discuss Ukraine's future borders with Putin when the two meet in Alaska, a judge in New York rejected a Justice Department request to unseal grand jury records from Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case and officials in Pennsylvania say at least one person is confirmed dead after an explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh.
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News Wrap: Trump plans to discuss Ukraine border with Putin
Clip: 8/11/2025 | 6m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
In our news wrap Monday, President Trump said he's planning to discuss Ukraine's future borders with Putin when the two meet in Alaska, a judge in New York rejected a Justice Department request to unseal grand jury records from Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case and officials in Pennsylvania say at least one person is confirmed dead after an explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAMNA NAWAZ: 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 will urge Putin to end the war, but not without some territorial concessions on both sides.
DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: There will 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.
AMNA NAWAZ: 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 Volodymyr Zelenskyy 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 Merz invited Trump, Zelenskyy 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 Ghislaine 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.
She recently appealed her case to the Supreme Court.
Officials in Pennsylvania say at least one person is confirmed dead after an explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh.
Another person is still missing, and at least 10 others were sent to nearby hospitals with injuries.
This time-lapse video shows the moment of the explosion, with black smoke erupting from the site.
Emergency officials say it happened around 11:00 a.m. this morning at the Clairton Coke Works.
The plant is one of four major U.S. Steel plants in the state, which employ several thousand workers.
The company's CEO says it's working with authorities to investigate what caused the blast.
We have a follow-up on last week's shooting at the CDC headquarters which left an officer dead as well as the shooter.
According to information circulated internally at the agency, the Georgia resident fired 180 shots during the attack on the Atlanta-based offices last Friday, and he broke about 150 windows, including blast-resistant windows, leaving glass shards on the floors of some rooms.
Authorities have not yet said whether he took his own life in the attack or was killed by police.
Parts of Wisconsin are starting to dry out after unprecedented rains brought flooding this weekend.
The storm set unofficial state records, pouring more than 14 inches over less than 24 hours in the Milwaukee area.
Motorists abandoned their vehicles near the city's Major League ballpark, and the floodwaters canceled the final day of the state fair.
As of this morning, nearly 3,000 homes were still without power.
No fatalities have been reported so far.
More rain is expected tonight, though it's not predicted to be nearly as bad as this past weekend.
President Trump signed an executive order today to extend a tariff truce with China for another 90 days.
The order was signed just hours before midnight, when the higher rates were set to take effect.
The extension keeps U.S. tariffs on China relatively low at 30 percent.
That's compared to 145 percent had the deal expired.
And Chinese tariffs on U.S. goods were set to go up to 125 percent.
Today's move was largely expected following talks between the two sides last month in Sweden.
Chipmakers Nvidia and AMD have agreed to share 15 percent of their revenues from China with the U.S. government.
That's according to a government official who confirmed details first reported by The Financial Times.
The F.T.
says the companies agreed to the unprecedented terms in order to obtain export licenses to resume sales in China.
President Trump had halted sales back in April, citing national security concerns.
But, last month, the chipmaker said the government would let them restart selling certain advanced chips that are used for A.I.
development.
And on Wall Street today, stocks ended lower ahead of tomorrow's highly anticipated inflation report.
The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 200 points on the day.
The Nasdaq fell more than 60 points.
The S&P 500 also ended lower.
And AOL is finally pulling the plug on its dial-up Internet service.
Yes, dial-up still exists.
Those iconic beeps, static sounds and screeches were the way many people first accessed the Internet in the 1990s, as the "News Hour" reported back in 1997.
NARRATOR: Getting online, that is, dialing into cyberspace, is as common as making a phone call for many Americans.
And companies like AOL act much like the phone company, providing the connection into cyberspace.
AMNA NAWAZ: By the early 2000s, high-speed lines quickly replaced telephone lines.
By 2023, dial-up only made up about 1 percent of U.S. household Internet subscriptions.
AOL says the service will officially be discontinued on September 30.
Still to come on the "News Hour": a Texas Republican lawmaker discusses his party's attempt to redraw congressional districts; and Tamara Keith and Amy Walter break down the latest political headlines.
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