President Donald Trump holds talks this week with French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a moment of deep uncertainty about the future of transatlantic relations.

On a visit to the White House on Monday, the French president is expected to detail proposals by Paris and London to deploy troops in Ukraine to guarantee a ceasefire. A plan that presupposes the support of the US.

As Macron sits down to talks with Trump, the European Union and its closest allies will be staging a show of force in Kyiv on Monday, designed to signal that the bloc stands firmly behind Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy even as the White House turns against him and aligns with Russia’s talking points.

A lawyer for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down U.S. health insurance executive Brian Thompson in December, told a judge Friday that her client was illegally searched during his arrest and she would seek to exclude that evidence from his trial on state murder and terrorism charges.

The leaders of France and Britain are both due to meet with President Trump this week. Approaches previously tried with him may no longer work.

French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer will travel to Washington, United States next week amid alarm in Europe over US President Donald Trump’s hardening stance towards Ukraine and overtures to Moscow on the three-year conflict.

French president Emmanuel Macron says he will tell Donald Trump to "not be weak" in the face of Vladimir Putin, when he travels to the White House to discuss America's move to end Russia's war in Ukraine on Monday.

MSNBC’s Ali Velishi does a necessary fact check on Donald Trump’s lies about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin’s murderous war with Ukraine ahead of a face-to-face meeting in Washington between Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron.