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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump is deploying

National Guard troops in the nation's capital this week as part of a federal crackdown on crime.

Critics are questioning the stepped-up presence

around Washington, D.C.,'s iconic monuments, including the National Mall and Lincoln Memorial.

As NPR's Tom Bowman reports, they point out that those symbolic sites are far removed from

neighborhoods where residents say actual crime is occurring.

Incidents of violent crime in the nation's capital have dropped sharply in the past two years,

but most crimes are not committed around the national monuments.

They're being committed in the neighborhoods or along the busy commercial streets.

I spoke with two retired National Guard generals

who suggested that having guard troops only at the monuments

is really more performative, a public relations move.

That's NPR's Tom Bowman reporting.

A growing wave of protests against the war in Gaza

has swept Israel in recent weeks.

NPR's ETI Stern reports

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