Watch live as U.S. President Donald Trump arrives in Ankara for a summit of the military alliance that’s expected to focus on the member nations’ defense spending.
Here’s what we’re following:U.S. President Donald Trump has arrived in Turkey to meet with fellow NATO leaders at a summit, as the alliance tries to persuade him that their countries are actively increasing their military capabilities even as the American focus shifts away from its defense of Europe toward Asia. The two-day summit in Ankara, Turkey, will showcase a series of military projects worth billions of dollars in an attempt to persuade Trump that they are making a stronger Europe for a stronger NATO.Trump’s mass pardons for supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol don’t apply to a Virginia man charged with planting pipe bombs near the national headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, a federal judge ruled Monday.Trump Monday that he’s building a granite helipad on the White House lawn, insisting that the landing area is needed to accommodate new, more powerful presidential choppers. Confirmation of the project came as construction crews had already begun working on the helipad on the South Lawn. He said the project would be privately funded and estimated its cost at up to $6 million.
