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Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst. President Trump is calling D.C. a dangerous city and promising

swift federal action to make it safe. Empires Luke Garrett reports in a post on social media, Trump

compared his plans for the district to those taken on the southern border.

Trump posted photos of tents and trash along D.C. roads and said he will move homeless people far from the city and jail criminals.

He said plans will be shared Monday morning.

Nearly 450 federal officers have already been activated in D.C.

According to a White House official not authorized to speak

publicly on the matter. The deployment comes as Trump threatens to take federal control of the city

after a former Doge employee was beaten by a group of teens last week. But D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser

tells MSNBC violent crime in D.C. is dropping. We are not experiencing a spiking crime. Bowser says Trump can't

take over D.C. police, as he has threatened to do, because crime is down 26 percent compared to last year.

Trump does have the power to deploy the National Guard. So far, no troops have been sent,

the Guard says. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.

President Trump is getting ready for a meeting in Alaska this week

with Russian President Putin over Russia's war in Ukraine.

And NATO Secretary General Mark Ruda says it will be an important test

of whether Putin wants to end the war he started.

It will be about territory, it will be, of course, about security guarantees,

but also about the absolute need to acknowledge that Ukraine decides on his own future,

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