Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, President Trump

places the Washington, D.C. police under federal control and deploys the National Guard,

claiming a crime emergency despite the data showing a decline. Israel targets and kills several journalists in Gaza

as more countries plan to recognize a Palestinian state,

and how the Trump administration's hardline immigration policies

are affecting nursing homes across the country.

There are already huge numbers of vacancies for nursing home workers.

And if the immigrants who are now filling those jobs go away, they just won't be filled. Welcome to the News Hour.

President Trump announced today a federal takeover of Washington, D.C.'s police department

and a deployment of its National Guard in order, he says, to crack down on crime.

The move invokes rare but legal presidential authorities, but local officials say he's wrong to say that crime has spiraled out of control.

This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back.

Today, a renewed promise from the president to tackle what he says is a crime

and homelessness problem in the nation's capital. Our capital city has been overtaken by

violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and

homeless people, and we're not going to let it happen anymore. Flanked by his cabinet and federal law enforcement, the president declared a public safety emergency.

Announcing his attorney general will take control of D.C.'s police force, the National Guard will deploy hundreds of troops in the city

and threatening the use of active duty troops.

You're going to have a lot of essentially military, and we will bring in the military if it's needed, by the way.

Today's actions mark a major escalation of a federal crackdown already underway.

Over the weekend, over a hundred federal agents, including FBI, Secret Service,

and U.S. Marshals patrolled D.C. streets, a heightened presence that D.C.'s Mayor Muriel Bowser

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