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These days, there's so much news. It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community. The Consider This Podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism. Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a news story and provide the context and analysis that helps you make sense of the news. We get behind the headlines. We get to the truth. Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Christian Wright. President Trump and Russia. President Vladimir Putin will hold a joint press conference after they meet in Anchorage, Alaska tomorrow. The two are holding talks on ending Russia's war with Ukraine. Trump says the meeting will set the table for real progress toward peace. President Trump's federal takeover of law

enforcement in Washington, D.C. is ramping up. The White House says federal agents and the National Guard will be on the streets 24-7 in an effort to curb crime. Residents have various perspectives on crime in the city, but many feel this is not the right approach, including Ryan Wong. I think the idea that this is some state of emergency that we're living in, it's not how I feel, and I don't think it's how the people that we know here feel. The FBI says its agents and partners made 45 arrests last night in D.C., mostly related to immigration and more than a third for violent crime. Resident Alicia Cooper says she feels more safe with the federal oversight. The positive is a sense of security. Residents at the end of the

day, they can feel secure that they know that there is a higher level of chain command that is monitoring, you know, what's going on. Pediatricians in Florida are concerned about low immunization rates among kindergartners. Carrie Sheridan from Member Station WUSF reports. The CDC says for highly contagious diseases like measles, 95% of people need to be immunized to prevent outbreaks. Across Florida, only seven out of 67 counties meet that threshold. Dr. Rana Alyssa leads the Florida chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. It's very scary and worrisome because the worst is coming. In Sarasota County, rates are among the lowest. Only 79% of incoming kindergartners are up to date on all their shots, according to the state health department. That's

about the same level of immunization in areas of Texas where a deadly outbreak of measles killed two children earlier this year. For NPR News, I'm Carrie Sheridan in Sarasota. Stocks opened lower this morning as the Labor Department reported a sharp jump in prices at the wholesale level. NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow fell about 104 points. Wholesale prices in July were up 3.3% from a year ago. That's the sharpest increase in five months and significantly higher than forecasters had expected. Wholesale prices wrote close nine-tenths of a percent between June and July. The increase comes as the Trump administration has imposed steep tariffs on imports from around the world. Some of those tariffs are climbing higher

this month, so importers raced to bring in goods before the higher taxes took effect. The port of Los Angeles, which is a major gateway for imports from Asia, saw a record volume of cargo traffic in July. Asian stocks were mixed overnight down in China. Scott Horsley reporting, this is NPR. New polling shows a key voting block that helped re-elect President Trump is starting to back away from him and the Republican Party. NPR's Ashley Lopez reports the research finds a third of Latino voters who supported Trump don't plan on voting for Republicans next year.

Caitlin Jerry with the Latino polling group Eki's research found that economic issues like persistently high prices on groceries and health care are driving Latinos shift away. from Trump. But so far, she says, it hasn't translated into more support for Democrats. To me, it's clear that neither party should assume that they have Latinos in their pocket one way or another. Republicans have failed to deliver on a lot of their campaign promises, particularly around lowering the cost of living. Jury said if Republicans want to keep gains among these voters, they need to deliver on those promises. And if Democrats want to take

advantage of this opportunity, she says, they need to provide a sweeping economic vision ahead of next year's midterm elections. Ashley Lopez and PR News. It's the first day of school for kids in Los Angeles. The superintendent of the L.A. Unified School District is urging immigration authorities not to conduct enforcement activity near schools right before and after the school day. Construction on a detention camp at Fort Bliss in Texas is moving ahead. Immigration officials expect to open the facility this weekend. It costs more than a billion dollars to build, and it's expected to hold up to 5,000 adults as they await deportation. I'm Kristen Wright, and this is NPR News from Washington.