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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump visited the Park Police headquarters in Washington, D.C., tonight, giving a pep speech outside the building to National Guard troops and police. |
| 0:14.6 | This after he deployed National Guard troops along with federal law enforcement officers to D.C., saying crime and homelessness, |
| 0:21.4 | rather, were out of control, even as federal and local stats show violent crime has been going down. |
| 0:28.1 | Trump says they're working on sprucing up the nation's capital. |
| 0:31.4 | We're going back to Congress for some money, and we're going to redo a lot of the pavement, |
| 0:37.3 | a lot of the medians, a lot of |
| 0:39.0 | the graffiti's all coming off real fast. It's going to come down real fast. This has several |
| 0:44.5 | Republican-led states say they are sending hundreds of their own guard members to D.C. New |
| 0:51.3 | details about the White House and the EU trade deal framework have come out, and peers Daniel |
| 0:56.6 | Kurtzleben has more. Under the deal, the U.S. will impose 15% tariffs on most EU imports, as previously |
| 1:03.2 | announced. But the U.S. will also charge higher tariffs on European-made cars until the EU lowers |
| 1:08.7 | tariffs on U.S. goods. The new information is not a formal |
| 1:12.5 | agreement, but rather comes from a fact sheet released by the White House this morning. And there |
| 1:17.3 | are still big questions. The fact sheet acknowledges that the two parties will still need to |
| 1:22.0 | negotiate topics like cybersecurity and rules of origin. In addition, while Trump has touted an expected $600 billion |
| 1:29.4 | EU investment to the U.S., it's not clear that investment will actually hit those levels. |
| 1:35.5 | Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News. In Gaza, after Israel said it's moving forward with plans to take |
| 1:41.9 | control of Gaza City, hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets |
| 1:45.9 | denouncing what they see as forced displacement. In Paris Anas Baba has more. |
| 1:55.1 | In the heart of Gaza City, hundreds of Palestinians shanning unison. The people want to end the war. |
| 2:01.6 | Many carry signs. Some wave Palestinian flags and others simply raise their voices in protest. |
| 2:07.7 | Among them, young girls hold up a large empty plate with the word Gaza written in the center, |
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