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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump's federal takeover of Washington, D.C. law enforcement is underway. The first of hundreds of National Guard troops are deployed on city streets. Trump says he is concerned about what he calls surging D.C. crime. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other officials say local and federal data show violent crimes actually fallen nearly 30 percent in the District of Columbia. Today, Bowser said much of the city's functions will remain the same. The president has the authority by virtue of the statute to request services.

Our organizational chart, how we do business, how we fund the police, how we make changes, none of that has changed. Bowser spoke with reporters after meeting with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, whom Trump has put in charge of D.C. police. The White House is preparing for this Friday's summit between President Trump and Russian leadership. Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says Trump will be able to better gauge how to mediate an end to Russia's war with Ukraine. Getting in the room with the president of Russia sitting face to face rather than speaking

over the telephone will give this president the best indication of how to end this war and where this is headed. At this afternoon's briefing, Leavitt said it had yet to be determined if Trump and Putin plan to hold a joint news conference after the summit. A group of migrants is asking a federal. Court in Massachusetts to reinstate their legal status in the United States after the Trump administration abruptly ended it earlier this year. The individuals came to the U.S. via a Biden-era program that allowed them to be in the country temporarily while they claimed asylum. NPR

Sergio Martinez Petran has details. The three women at the center of the lawsuit used the now-defunct CBP-1 app to enter the U.S. legally. They were given permission to stay in the country until at least September 26. The women had filed asylum or green card applications, but the Trump administration abruptly ended their parole in April. It automatically made them and more than 900,000 people deportable after their legal status and work authorization gained through CBP1 was stripped from them. The administration has falsely claimed the app was used to smuggle migrants.

The women seek to have their legal status restored, as well as their work permit. The lawsuit covers others in similar circumstances. Sergio Martinez Beltran in PR News. A new inflation reports out. Consumer prices increased 2.7% in July from a year earlier, the same as a 2.7% annual increase seen in June. Inflation is a little higher than it was from March to May. Economists have warned that President Trump's tariffs

will increasingly start to affect prices people in the U.S. pay as companies start to pass on more of the tariff costs. The Dow is up more than 500 points or more than 1%. And this is NPR News. Yuvaldi County in Texas has released the final batch of documents including body cam footage from the 2022 mass shooting at Rob Elementary School. It shows parents desperately begging law enforcement officers to storm the school after gunmen opened fire inside. Officers waited more than an hour before they confronted the 18-year-old. By then, he had killed 19 students and two teachers.

Investigators later blame the delay in part on uncertainty over who is in charge and an overall breakdown in communication. Health officials in Wyoming are tracking down visitors from 38 U.S. states and seven countries. Hundreds of people may have been exposed to rabies at a hotel in Grand Teton National Park. K-H-O-L's Jenna McCurtry, McMurtry, that is, has details. At least 200 people who stayed at Jackson. Lake Lodge may have been exposed to rabies from a suspected bat colony at the hotel. The hotel has closed eight rooms after eight reported run-ins with bats since June. If left untreated, rabies is almost always fatal.

State health officer Alexia Harris. What we're really concerned about, certainly people who have had actual physical contact with bats, because the way that rabies is spread is through the bat's saliva. The hotel is scheduled to host the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium next week. week. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is expected to speak. For NPR News, I'm Jenna McMurtry in Jackson, Wyoming. On Wall Street, all major market indices are up more than 1%. It's NPR News.