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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Ciavone. Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, is breaking her silence as President Trump threatens to federalize the nation's capital. Trump is promising to stop violent crime in the city during a press conference scheduled for tomorrow. 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. 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. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is saying today he has the authority to keep the state

legislature and special session indefinitely as some state Democrats continue to stonewall a redistricting plan to make more congressional seats Republican. Abbott spoke on Fox News Sunday. European leaders say they support President Trump's plan to meet Russian President Putin in an effort to end the war in Ukraine, but in a joint statement they called for continued pressure on Moscow, NPR's Lauren Freyer has more. Leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Finland, and the European Commission say they welcome Trump's work to, quote, stop the killing in Ukraine, end Russia's war of aggression and achieve a just and lasting peace.

They say they stand firmly by the side of Ukraine and call Russia's invasion unprovoked and illegal. The statement was issued after Vice President J.D. Vance and UK Foreign Secretary David Lamey met with Ukrainian and European officials over the weekend at Lammie's country mansion southeast of London. Trump plans to meet Putin in Alaska on Friday. It's been described as a bilateral meeting, but European leaders in their statement said, quote, the path to peace in Ukraine cannot be decided without Ukraine. Lauren Freyer and PR News, London. Israel's opposition leader has backed a call for a nationwide strike to protest the government's plan to intensify the war in Gaza

Yaya Lapid defended the plan as justified. Dahlia Kusner, a relative of one of the remaining Israeli hostages, agreed. I'm terrified. I think I can speak for the most of the hostages families, not everyone, but we're terrified because we understand that the expansion of the military campaign might cause their death because we know that Hamas had killed 42 hostages, living hostages, in the past two years, because they felt the army is coming maybe too close. Cousineers spoke to the BBC.

This is NPR News in Washington. Heavy storms rolled through eastern Nebraska this weekend, causing power outages and widespread damage, hundreds of inmates. At a prison in Lincoln had to be moved, the storm left one person dead at a state park crushed by a tree. Images from space are helping researchers on Earth better understand river temperatures. This could be important as the climate changes from northwest public broadcasting, Courtney Flatt explains. For more than 40 years, several NASA satellites have collected temperature data. Now, University of Washington graduate student, George Daqwa, has developed an AI tool to sort through it all and learn more about river temperatures over time. Daqwa says the information

could be used for entire rivers all over the world. Based on that's knowledge, we can modify how we operate water in the future. He also wants to use the AI tool to track things. like harmful algal blooms and water temperature changes near data centers. For NPR news, I'm Courtney Flatt in Kennewick, Washington. About 1,400 firefighters were deployed this weekend in France's southern odd region to prevent the country's largest wildfire in decades from reigniting. It had been contained since Thursday after burning more than 62 square miles in the wooded region known for its wineries.

For the first time in 50 years, a NASA crew splashed down from space. into the Pacific Ocean this weekend. Four astronauts from the International Space Station splashed down in their parachuted space capsule off the Southern California coast. I'm Luis Giovanni and PR News, Washington.