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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Washington, D.C. protests as President Trump outlaw plans today to federalize the city's police department and deploy the National Guard. Sarah Y. Kim of member station WAMU has public reaction. That's the sound of protesters as news broke of President Trump's federal takeover. D.C. native and activist Ty Hobson Powell said the city must not become a proving ground for a quote. quote, dictator. They will carry this playbook to every community that dares to push back in the United States of America. Trump has said crime is out of control in D.C., though it's gone down in recent years, the president announced the measures following an attempted carjacking of a former

Doge staffer. For NPR news, I'm Sarah Wyckham in Washington. The U.S. government will take 15% of the revenue that chipmaker NVIDIA gets from sales of its age 20 microchip in China. That's according to President Trump, who call the chip obsolete. More from NPR's John Ruich. The U.S. government, first under Trump during his first term and then under President Biden, imposed restrictions on the export of high-end microchips to China on national security grounds. But now, speaking at the White House, Trump says, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has asked for an exception so that NVIDIA could sell H-20s into the Chinese market. And I said, if I'm going to do that, I want you to pay us as a country something.

Trump said he asked for a 20% cut and Huang haggled him down to 15%. The H-20 was designed to be less powerful than the company's top-of-the-line microchips to comply with export controls. Trump called it obsolete and that it's a chip China already has. The company says in a statement it follows rules the U.S. government sets for its participation in global markets. John Rewich, NPR News. The political standoff in Texas over a mid-decade redistricting that would favor Republicans is stretching into another week. The GOP-led State House was unable to meet quorum today. Today, dozens of House Democrats who left Texas to block a redistricting vote, they say is unlawful, remain out of state.

Visibly frustrated, Republican Governor Greg Abbott says Democrats will be located or... At the end of this week, this current 30-day special session will be gabbled out, and the nanosecond after that happens, I'm going to be calling another special session, and we're going to be making sure that any Democrat who surfaces in the state of Texas in that intervening time is going to be apprehended by the Texas Department of Public Safety and taken to the Texas Capitol and held there to make sure that we are able to meet Quorum. The GOP stands to gain five congressional seats in Texas under a redrawn map ahead of next year's midterm elections. The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 185 points at last glance at 43,989. SMPs's off six, and the NASDAQ is down 17 points. You're listening to NPR News. At least one person is dead, an unknown number, injured, and two people. are still unaccounted for after an explosion at the U.S. Steel Clarton Coke Works near Pittsburgh.

Clarton City officials said the blast could be felt at least two miles away, and a rescue operation remains underway to rescue trapped workers at the sprawling complex. President Trump confirms his administration is looking at reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. As was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, he said he expected a decision in a few weeks. New research shows women who experience physical threats of violence, specifically stalking, have higher rates of cardiovascular disease. That is according to a study out today from Harvard.

NPR's Katie Riddle has details. 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 O'R. News. The Dow Jones

Industrial Average down 188 points or nearly half a percent. I'm Lakshmi. Singh NPR News in Washington.