🇺🇦 Axios PM: Trump's peacetime plan

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🏛️ Breaking: The U.S. attorney's office in D.C. has opened an investigation into whether District police officials falsified crime data, the N.Y. Times reports.

Senior American, Ukrainian and European officials are hammering out a detailed proposal on security guarantees for Ukraine with an eye toward peace between it and Russia, Axios' Barak Ravid reports.

• 🛫 Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading a newly formed joint commission on the matter, and any resulting plan will likely involve U.S. air power.

🇺🇸 President Trump has come around to the idea of U.S. involvement in protecting Ukraine after its war with Russia, following months of refusing to discuss the issue.

• In a "Fox & Friends" interview, Trump stressed there'll be no U.S. boots on the ground, but said he's open to providing air support for European forces.

🇷🇺 Trump said he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin would accept U.S.-European security guarantees for Ukraine, "but we will know in the next few weeks."

• Trump is also pushing a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
• 📞 During a phone call yesterday, Trump told Putin that he will have to meet directly with Zelensky to discuss his demands for Ukrainian territory, and urged him to be "realistic."

Yes, but: There's still no date or location for such a meeting. Zelensky has long rejected Putin's desired territorial gains.

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The job market is hotter than average in some states but cooler in others, Alex Fitzpatrick writes from new data.

• South Dakota (1.9% unemployment), North Dakota (2.5%) and Vermont (2.6%) had last month's lowest unemployment rates, based on preliminary Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers.
• Washington, D.C. (6%), California (5.5%) and Nevada (5.4%) had the highest.
• 🇺🇸 Compare those figures to the national unemployment rate of 4.2%.

📈 California also had the only statistically significant month-to-month jump in unemployment among states, rising 0.1 percentage points from June.

• The San Francisco Chronicle points to a faltering tech industry as part of the Golden State's problem, especially for younger workers.

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Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles is now offering lessons — and Axios' Maxwell Millington got a floor routine crash course.

• 🏡 Chiles is the latest celebrity involved with Airbnb's "Originals" feature, which offers unique experiences beyond a place to stay.

📸 "Chiles led me and seven other guests through a meditation, taught us how to perform her floor routine (minus the flips), sat down for a group Q&A, and ended the evening with a photo op and book signing," Maxwell writes about the $150, two-hour session.

• 🥉 Of her stuck-in-limbo bronze medal, Chiles tells Axios: "At the end of the day, I'm always going to be loved, I'm always going to be supported. I'm going to continue to fight for who I am."

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