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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. President Trump's emergency declaration, allowing him to take control of the Washington, D.C. Police Department, expires today. But as member station WAMU's Alex Como reports, federal intervention in the city's affairs will likely continue. President Trump said federal control of the D.C. police department was needed to address crime in the city. And most crime rates have fallen over the last few weeks, according to D.C. police. but many of these numbers were falling before Trump's intervention. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has pushed back against Trump's decision to temporarily take over the department. She remains concerned about preserving the city's limited self-government.

It has been clear that our autonomy has kind of been in the crosshairs. That's our North Star. Trump has also ordered many federal agents in the National Guard into the city. He isn't expected to remove them anytime soon. For NPR News, I'm Alex Koma in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the the legality of terrorists that President Trump imposed by executive order last spring. Lower courts have sided with companies arguing that the import levies will put them out of business. As NPR's Niedentzottenberg reports, the Justice Department appealed, citing precedent on the issue.

In defending the legality of the Trump tariffs, the Justice Department noted that other presidents have imposed similar tariffs dating back to 1813. The question before the Supreme Court, however, is whether those earlier tariffs were as broad as Trump's tariffs, and they pretty clearly were not. The other question is whether they were authorized by Congress. And PR is Nina Totenberg. The UN Secretary General and several Mideast nations are condemning Israel's attack on Hamas leaders meeting in Qatar. The White House is calling the Israeli attack an unfortunate incident, while officials in Doha say it was a flagrant violation of international law.

as five officials were killed in the attack, which came days after the Palestinian group claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting at a bus stop in Jerusalem. Poland says it has shut down Russian drones that violated its airspace during overnight airstrikes targeting Ukraine. As the BBC Sarah Rainsford reports, the Polish military says it's trying to identify and, in its words, neutralize the weapons.

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk says there were multiple violations of Polish airspace overnight. The armed forces say weapons were used as it seems several Russian drones were shot down. It isn't clear yet what damage they may have caused. This all happened during the latest Russian attack across Ukraine. The air raid here began before midnight with warnings of at least 100 drones in the air and of Russia preparing missiles for launch. Then the online channels that Ukrainians watch reported several of those drones crossing into Poland.

They began writing in Polish, warning people there to take cover. Sarah Rainsford from the BBC. This is NPR. A charter plane is heading from South Korea to the United States to retrieve some 300 citizens detained by immigration agents in Georgia. The South Koreans were among 475 workers who were arrested and shackled during a raid at a Hyundai battery factory. They are to be transferred from Folkston, Georgia, to Atlanta for a flight home on Thursday. South Korean officials negotiated deals allowing the workers to leave

U.S. voluntarily instead of being deported. A new moon has been discovered, orbiting Uranus, from member station Northwest Public Broadcasting Lauren Patterson has the story. At just six miles in diameter, the newest moon discovered orbiting Uranus is also the smallest. That's according to University of Idaho Physics Professor Matthew Headman, who was part of the team led by the Southwest Research Institute that made the discovery. Headman says the 13 rings encircling urinus are exceptionally narrow, and the icy giant's moons are orbiting so closely that their gravitational poles can tug on each other, leading to collisions. It indicates we don't really understand what's going on in this system, and that tells us there's still a lot about how things are going on in space that we still need to learn. He says understanding more about how the moons interact could help scientists learn more about the physics of asteroid belts.

For NPR News, I'm Lauren Patterson in Moscow, Idaho. U.S. futures are slightly higher in after-hours trading on Wall Street following Tuesday's gains on Asia-Pacific market shares are up, up 1% in Hong Kong. This is NPR.