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Russia gifts motorcycle to Alaska man after Trump-Putin meeting
An Alaska man might have walked away as the biggest winner of last week's high stakes summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage. He rode off with a new motorcycle, courtesy of the Russian government. Putin's delegation gifted Mark Warren, a retired fire inspector for the Municipality of Anchorage, a Ural Gear Up motorcycle with a sidecar, one week after a television crew's interview with Warren went viral in Russia. The motorcycle company, founded in 1941 in western Siberia, now assembles its bikes in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, and distributes them through a team based in Woodinville, Washington. Warren already owned one Ural motorcycle, purchased from a neighbor. He was out running errands on it a week before the summit when a Russian television crew saw him and asked for an interview. Warren told the crew about his difficulty obtaining parts for the bike because of supply-and-demand issues. 'It went viral, it went crazy, and I have no idea why, because I'm really just a super-duper normal guy,' Warren said Tuesday. 'They just interviewed some old guy on a Ural, and for some reason they think it's cool.' On Aug. 13, two days before the Trump-Putin summit to discuss the war in Ukraine, Warren received a call from the Russian journalist, who told him, 'They've decided to give you a bike.' Warren said a document he received indicated the gift was arranged through the Russian Embassy in the US, which did not immediately return a message Tuesday. Warren said he initially thought it might be a scam. But after Putin and Trump departed Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson following their three-hour summit last Friday, he got another call informing him the bike was at the base. He was directed to go to an Anchorage hotel the next day for the handoff. He went with his wife, and there in the parking lot, along with six men he assumed to be Russians, was the olive-green motorcycle, valued at $22,000. 'I dropped my jaw,' he said. 'I went, 'You've got to be joking me.'' All the Russians asked in return was to take his picture and interview him, he said: 'If they want something from me, they're gonna be sorely disappointed.' Two reporters and someone from the consulate jumped on the bike with him, and he drove slowly around the parking lot while a cameraman ran alongside and filmed it. The only reservation he had about taking the Ural is that he might somehow be implicated in some nefarious Russian scheme. Warren said he doesn't want a 'bunch of haters coming after me that I got a Russian motorcycle. … I don't want this for my family.' When he was signing the paperwork taking ownership of the motorcycle from the Russian embassy, he noticed it was manufactured Aug. 12. 'The obvious thing here is that it rolled off the showroom floor and slid into a jet within probably 24 hours,' he said.
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Southern border wall will be painted black to deter people from climbing it during hot weather, DHS secretary says
The wall along the southern border will be painted black in an effort to make the structure too hot to climb, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Tuesday, saying the suggestion came from President Donald Trump. 'It's tall, which makes it very, very difficult to climb, almost impossible. It also goes deep into the ground, which would make it very difficult, if not impossible, to dig under. And today we are also going to be painting it black,' Noem said during a news conference Tuesday in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, as she stood before the slatted steel structure. 'That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here, when something is painted black, it gets even warmer, and it will make it even harder for people to climb,' she said. The black paint will also prevent rust on the steel, said US Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks. The move to paint the wall comes as the Trump administration claims there were just over 6,000 apprehensions at the southern border in June, 15% lower than a previous record in March. The southern border wall was a centerpiece of Trump's hardline immigration stance during his first term. Now in his second term, Trump's focus has largely shifted to deportations and heightened enforcement within the US. Noem didn't say how much it would cost to paint the wall, but the administration secured about $46.5 billion in funding through the Trump-backed 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' to modernize the border barrier system, including completing construction on 700 miles of primary wall. The government is building approximately half a mile of barrier each day, Noem said Tuesday. 'The border wall will look very different based on the topography and the geography of where it is built,' she explained. Noem also noted the department's deployment of 'water-borne infrastructure' and advanced technology, such as cameras and sensors.
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Bessent Plays It Cool on Tariffs Even as US-China Friction Persists
For now, Washington seems content to keep things steady with Beijing. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US is ' very happy ' with the current tariff setup, calling it a system that's working well and noting that China as the biggest source of tariff revenue. It's a sign the Trump administration doesn't want to rock the boat before the trade truce expires in November — and could be paving the way for a meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the meantime.
