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Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst. President Trump is calling D.C. a dangerous city and promising swift federal action to make it safe. NPR's Luke Garrett reports in a post on social media, Trump compared his plans for the district to those taken on the southern border. Trump posted photos of tents and trash along D.C. roads and said he will move homeless people far from the city and jail criminals. He said plans will be shared Monday morning. morning. Nearly 450 federal officers have already been activated in D.C., according to a White House official not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. The deployment comes as Trump threatens to take federal control of the city after a former Doge employee was beaten by a group of teens last

week. But D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser tells MSNBC violent crime in D.C. is dropping. We are not experiencing a spiking crime. Bowser says Trump can't take over D.C. police, as he has threatened to do, because crime is down 26 percent compared to last year. year. Trump does have the power to deploy the National Guard. So far, no troops have been sent, the Guard says. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington. President Trump is getting ready for a meeting in Alaska this week with Russian President Putin over Russia's war in Ukraine. And NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta says it will be an important test of whether Putin wants to end the war he started. It will be about territory. It will be, of course,

about security guarantees, but also about the absolute need. to acknowledge that Ukraine decides on his own future, that Ukraine has to be a sovereign nation deciding on his own geopolitical future. Speaking there to ABCs this week, European leaders say they support the Trump-Putin talks, but that any ceasefire talks have to include Ukraine. Today, Vice President Vance told Fox News, the White House is working to set up a meeting with Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky, too, on a ceasefire. Meanwhile, on social media today, Zelensky says Russia is doing everything to prolong hostilities. In Western Colorado, firefighters are up against another

day of hot, windy weather as they try to protect homes and infrastructure threatened by the Lee fire. And here's Kirk Sigler reports the fire has now grown to more than 100,000 acres. Firefighters have struggled to get much of a containment line dug around the leaf fire because of gusty winds and extremely dry fuels. The concern continues to be trying to stop it from burning east toward the small ranching and hunting town of Meeker, Colorado. When megafires like this ignite in overgrown forests made even drier by climate change, there aren't a lot of options for containing them until there's cooperation from the weather. There's little change expected in the short-term forecast.

So fire managers are focused mainly on protecting structures where it's safe to do so. Meanwhile, some good news is that resources are pouring into the region, thanks in part to it being a relatively quieter than expected summer wildfire season in the West so far. Kirk Ziegler, NPR News. This is NPR News. Governmental environmental websites have been changed much more during President Trump's second term as compared to his first. That's according to a new analysis. Empire's Jeff Radio reports the authors say those changes are also much bolder.

The Environmental 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 Gurkie 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 climate 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. At the weekend box office, horror ruled the day. Weapons debuted in the top spot with an

estimated $42 million in ticket sales. It's taken in $70 million globally so far. The film takes viewers to the small town of Maybrook, where 17 kids leave their homes at 2.17 in the morning, leaving bewildered parents in their wake. In second place, Disney's chaotic sequel to the 2003 classic, Freakier Friday, with $29 million in estimated ticket sales. Lindsay Lowen and Jamie Lee Curtis returned this time for a double body swapping between the mother-daughter duo. You're listening to NPR News.