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Support for NPR and the following message come from the Limelson Foundation, working to harness the power of invention and innovation to accelerate climate action and improve lives around the world. Learn more at limelson.org. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is breaking her silence as President Trump threatens to federalize the nation's capital. Trump is holding a news conference on Monday, during which he says he will promise to stop violent crime in the city. NPR's Luke Garrett reports. Mayor Bowser tells MSNBC that crime did spike two years ago, but is now down to a 30-year low. Any comparison to a war-torn country is hyperbolic and false. But the mayor says she will continue to work with Trump, and she expects him to send in more federal boots. I suspect that his announcement is that he is surging federal law enforcement, which he's talked about,

and he may talk about even larger numbers or longer periods of time. Bowser says D.C. does need help from the federal government, but not in the form of D.C. National Guard deployments. For the mayor, the city needs more federal prosecutors, judges, and repairs to buildings and parks. Luke Garrett. NPR News, Washington. President Trump and Russian leader of Vladimir Putin will be meeting in Alaska on Friday to discuss Russia's war on Ukraine. NPR's Greg MIRES says the last-minute nature of the meeting, which was just announced a few days, ago could cause problems. It makes this summit very unpredictable. Traditionally, these U.S.-Russia summits are worked out over weeks or even months. All the details are arranged ahead of time.

Every event is carefully choreographed. The guiding principle, really, for both sides is no surprises. But that's just not how Trump operates. We don't know what Putin might put on the table. We don't know how Trump will respond. And even if Trump and Putin reach some sort of understanding, it won't mean that much until we see how Ukraine responds. Putin is traveling to Alaska, even though he's under indictment by the International Criminal Court for possible war crimes in Ukraine. Wall Street investors will be focused this week on the latest data on inflation and retail sales. MPO's Rafael NAM has more on how that data could shed some light on the effects of President Trump's tariffs. Economists have been warning for a while that tariffs and imports are likely to raise prices for consumers.

Already, inflation picked up a little bit in June, and now investors will be keen to see whether inflation rose some more in July, when the latest data on consumer prices comes out on Tuesday. It's not just inflation. Another concern is that consumers could get cautious and start spending less. That's why there will be a lot of attention paid to the retail sales data out on Friday, but the facts could become more prominent in coming months after President Trump's latest round of Tariffs kicked in earlier in July. Raffelnam in PR News. Delta Airlines says one of their planes

clipped another plane while backing out of a gate in Atlanta Sunday morning. Officials say the plane's wing briefly made contact with an empty aircraft. The passengers on that plane were moved to another plane for their flight to Guatemala City. Delta says there were no injuries from the incidents. You're listening to NPR News. Police in Ecuador say eight people were killed Sunday. Sunday in a shooting in a nightclub. The incident took place in the coastal province of Guayas, which is considered to be one of the country's most dangerous regions. Police have no

motive for the shooting. It came just two days after gunmen attacked a boat near that country's southwestern coast. Government environmental websites have been changed a great deal more during President Trump's second term compared to his first. That's according to a new analysis. And as NPR's Jeff Brady reports, the authors say those changes are also much bolder. Data and Governance Initiative found 70% more changes to environmental websites during the first 100 days of Trump's second term compared to the first. Gretchen Gherke is a lead author of the report. I am surprised by the extent of the removal of information about environmental justice, that level of kind of total erasure we didn't see with any topic under the first

term administration. Former President Biden made environmental justice that everyone should have equal access to a healthy environment central to his client. change agenda. Trump White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told NPR that now agencies are focused on their missions and not, quote, ideological activism. Jeff Brady, NPR News. The highly anticipated horror film weapons ruled the box office this weekend, bringing in $42.5 million in domestic ticket sales. It's this seventh Warner Brothers flicked this year to land in the top spot, and it's sixth in a row to debut by bringing in more than $40 million. Disney's comedy sequel, Freakery or Friday, meanwhile came in second with $29 million. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.