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By Sallee Ann Harrison
August 17, 2025
By Sallee Ann Harrison
August 17, 2025
Good morning and welcome to the Sunday edition of Morning Wire, where we give you the weekend rundown to get ready for the week ahead. Today, more National Guard troops are sent to Washington, an alleged multi-million Ponzi scheme unravels in upstate New York and what's next for Hurricane Erin.
But first, President Donald Trump runs into the difficulty of Putin diplomacy.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, second right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin after their joint news conference on Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Trump runs into the difficulty of Putin diplomacy and ending a long war
U.S. President Donald Trump walked into a summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin pressing for a ceasefire deal and threatening "severe consequences" and tough new sanctions if the Kremlin leader failed to agree to halt the fighting in Ukraine. Instead, Trump was the one who stood down. It was a dramatic reversal that laid bare the challenges of dealing with Putin and the complexities of a conflict that Trump had repeatedly boasted during his campaign that he could solve within 24 hours. Read more.
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Members of the District of Columbia National Guard patrol along the National Mall Saturday in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Three Republican-led states to send hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington
West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio said Saturday that they were deploying hundreds of National Guard members to the nation's capital to bolster the Trump administration's effort to overhaul policing in Washington through a federal crackdown on crime and homelessness. Read more.
He earned a small town's trust. He owed $95 million in what authorities say was a Ponzi scheme
Burt Marshall, a businessman from upstate New York, is accused of preying on his neighbors in a massive Ponzi scheme. Marshall promised clients an 8% annual return on their investments in local rental properties. Marshall filed for bankruptcy protection two years ago, owing nearly 1,000 investors about $95 million. Many victims, including retirees and local workers, lost their life savings. Read more.
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