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Do you ever look at political headlines and go, huh? Well, that's exactly why the NPR Politics Podcast exists. We're experts, not just on politics, but in making politics make sense. Every episode, we decode everything that happened in Washington and help you figure out what it all means. Give politics a chance with the NPR Politics Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright. President Trump is announcing plans to counter what he says is an uptick and violent crime in the nation's capital.

Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is? And placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. Speaking from the White House, the President also says he's deploying the National Guard to D.C. after activating hundreds of FBI agents across the city this weekend. He described crime in the district as a threat to America and called out violent crimes committed against residents. Washington has seen falling crime rates in recent years, according to the Justice Department. Violent crime hit a 30-year low in the city last year. A federal judge in Manhattan today rejected the Trump administration's

request to release grand jury transcripts. These stem from the Justice Department investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's long-time confidant, Gieland Maxwell. A state of emergency is in effect in Milwaukee. The mayor says the city hasn't seen flooding this bad in a long time. Thunderstorms and heavy rain hit southeastern Wisconsin over the weekend. The rain fell for nearly 24 hours straight in some areas. Derek Watson's car was washed away by floodwaters.

My car just dropped and it fell. and I was just like, you know, like shocked. Like what's going on? Like I'm going down. So then I got out the car, climbed on top of the car. First of all, I got out the car and slipped under into the water. But I climbed back up. That's how I busted my knuckles and everything.

So I climbed back up, got on top of the car. He spoke to WISN. Israelis against the war in Gaza have been ramping up protests, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defends his escalation of the war. NPR's Emily Fang visited near Israel's board. with Gaza and talk to Israelis who support him. This viewing hill in southern Israel is so close.

I can see the ruined, concrete edge of Gaza. A few dozen tourists and Israelis have come here to peer into what remains of Gaza after 22 months of war. 28-year-old Israel Teaberg is taking a break from his yeshiva or religious school nearby, and he says the Israeli military's bombing, and Gaza is so loud it sometimes shakes his family's house. But he says he doesn't care because hostages kidnapped by Hamas are still being held in

Gaza. As he leaves, a group of French tourists link arms and sing a Passover song describing overcoming persecution. Behind them, the sound of explosions and a black puff of smoke emerges over Gaza. Emily Fang and Pier News still wrote Israel. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. research shows that women who experience physical threats of violence, specifically stalking, have higher rates of cardiovascular disease. That's according to a study out today from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health. And PR's Kadia Riddle reports. Researchers already know about certain risk factors like smoking and high blood pressure that can lead to cardiovascular disease, but this study shows that the extreme psychological stress that comes from being stalked can also

lead to heart disease or heart attacks. Rebecca Lawn worked on the study. It's been emerging in some of our other work and work by other groups that women's experiences of violence is linked to their cardiovascular health. And stalking is one that is particularly understudied. The data comes from a large study of more than 66,000 nurses over 20 years. Katie Oretel in PR News. AOL is ending its Dial-Up Internet service.

Yeah, if you didn't know, Dialup is still out there in use. This marks the end of an era of sorts, as many think of that tone when they think of the early days of the Internet. AOL Dialup launched in 1991. The service is shutting down at the end of September. In 2019, the census estimated that 265,000 people in the U.S. were still using Dialup. ahead of a potential strike. Flight attendants for Air Canada are planning to pick it today across four airports in Canada. They want better pay and pay for all working hours. A strike could begin later this week. This is NPR News.