Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. Two National Guard members from West Virginia were shot just two blocks from the White House today. They're now in critical condition. Police say the suspect came around a corner and immediately started firing at the troops. The suspect was shot and is now in custody. Defense Secretary Pete Hagsas says 500 more troops are needed in the district. The drop in crime has been historic. The increase in safety and security has been historic.

But if criminals want to conduct things like this, violence against America's best,

we will never back down. When Trump said in the Guard, violent crime in D.C. was at its lowest

levels in 30 years. The Guard was

initially deployed for crime fighting, but some much of their time has since been spent

picking up trash and doing beautification projects. The Georgia criminal case against President

Trump and more than a dozen of his allies for their efforts to try to overturn the 2020

election result is officially over. A state judge dismissed

the case in its entire today after a special prosecutor moved to drop all charges. And Pierre

Sam Greenglass has our reports. The prosecution was the last outstanding criminal case against the

president after a pair of federal prosecutions were dropped earlier this year. In 2023, a grand jury in

Fulton County charged Trump and 18 others in a sweeping racketeering case, spurred in part by

Trump's call to Georgia's Secretary of State asking him to find votes. Pete Scandalakis,

director of the state prosecuting attorneys counsel, took over the case after a court disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fawney Willis

over an alleged conflict of interest, stemming from an improper relationship with a special prosecutor.

Scandalakis found that the alleged criminal conduct was conceived in Washington, D.C.,

writing the federal government is the appropriate

venue for this prosecution. Sam Gringlass, NPR News. White House envoy Steve Whitkoff heads to

Moscow next week looking for approval from Russian president, Vladimir Putin, for a draft

peace plan with Ukraine. The plan is now said to be fine-tuned after Kiev had dismissed the initial

plan because it favored Moscow. As NPR-Zelliner Beardsley reports, meanwhile, leaked telephone

conversations appeared to show Whitkoff coaching a Putin aide on just how to handle Trump.

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