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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Trump administration says it plans to deploy hundreds of national guard troops on the streets of the nation's capital. President Trump says he is putting Attorney General Pam Bondi in charge of local police. Bondi echoed Trump's claim that crime in the city is surging. No more crime rampant in our beautiful capital. No more teenage girls beating a disabled man to death. No more of that. No more drive-bys. We're going to do everything we can. However, local police data show a 26% decline in violent crimes last year in the District of Columbia.

D.C. City Council member Brooke Pinto says what President Trump's pursuing won't help improve public safety, but other federal options could. We have judicial vacancies that the Senate is responsible for confirming judges on our local courts that have sat vacant for years. We have a declination rate at the U.S. Attorney's Office that is still too high. We need the federal government to step up their support with their supervision agencies. And we need Congress to fix the $1 billion gap they left in our local budget so we can pay our police and firefighters. D.C. Council Member Pinto speaking with NPR's morning edition. Today, President Trump described his upcoming meeting, with Russian President Vladimir Putin as a feel-out meeting

and said he would speak to European leaders and Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, immediately afterward. He said Zelensky and Putin could meet together at some point afterward and said he would be open to joining them if needed. Trump and Putin are scheduled to hold a summit Friday in Alaska on ending Russia's war with Ukraine. Israelis against the war in Gaza have been ramping up protests. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defends his escalation of the war,

and PR's Emily Fang visited near Israel's border with Gaza and spoke with 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 Peer News stir wrote Israel. This is NPR. At a press conference today, President Trump was asked about the arrangement to allow NVIDIA and AMD to sell advanced chips to China in exchange for giving the United States part of the proceeds. Trump suggested the NVIDIA chip in question was, quote, obsolete and did not need to be protected for national security reasons.

Researchers say younger people in the U.S. are putting. a lot of trust on social media for health advice. Doctors say this can be a problem, especially when it comes to advice about contraception. There's NPR's Katie Riddle. Many social media influencers are posting inaccurate information about birth control, suggesting that it is dangerous or exaggerating the risks of side effects. Jennifer Conti is an obstetrician gynecologist at Stanford University. Misinformation that comes from social media, various different outlets of social media is something that we,

counter daily in the gynecologist office. Conti and other clinicians say they often spend time explaining to people that birth control is proven to be safe and effective and that people need to also consider the risks of unplanned pregnancy. Katie Reddle in PR News. Tropical storm Erin has formed in the Atlantic Ocean west of the Cabo Verde Islands. The National Hurricane Center says the storm may become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season this week. Meanwhile, forecasters say another hurricane. has strengthened in the Pacific Ocean, and it remains hundreds of miles from Honolulu, though. The Dow is down 138 points. SMPs up slightly. The NASDAQ has gained 46 points. This is NPR.