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.

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.

US President Donald Trump has said that French President Emmanuel Macron and UK PM Keir Starmer "haven't done anything" to end the war in Ukraine, ahead of visits from both leaders to the White House next week.

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.

The president’s harsher posture toward Ukraine will hang over visits by the French and British leaders next week.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Donald Trump that his interests were in line with European allies and that showing any weakness to Russia's Vladimir Putin would make it harder to deal with China and Iran.

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.

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.