Trump meets Putin in Alaska
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Halibut Olympia, a Tuesday-night kind of recipe, was part of the planning (if not the eating) at the Friday meeting.
Government documents with details about meeting schedules and seating charts − as well as an extravagant menu − were accidentally left in a hotel printer.
As the leaders of the United States and Russia met on Anchorage’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Friday, supporters of Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion staged multiple demonstrations in Alaska to protest the meeting and what they predicted would be capitulation to Russian goals.
ANCHORAGE—Local entrepreneurs rushed to take advantage of a surprise business opportunity from the summit, after a challenging summer in which tourism has been hampered by factors including the nationwide slowdown in foreign travel.
Papers bearing U.S. State Department markings and detailing President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin were discovered in the business center of an Anchorage hotel, raising new questions about the handling of sensitive government information.