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WATCH: White House suggests DC police takeover may last longer than 30 days

By Associated Press

During a news briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the administration would “reevaluate and reassess and make further decisions” after the 30-day period is over.

Fact-checking Trump's claims about homicides in DC

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact

President Donald Trump stretched an outdated homicide rate into an inaccurate blanket statement.

The nation's capital finds itself at the center of a Trump maelstrom as National Guard troops arrive

By Ashraf Khalil, Associated Press

The Republican president's decision fits a pattern of using emergency declarations to rule by executive order.

The legality of Trump's D.C. takeover as statistics show decline in crime

By Amna Nawaz, Kayan Taraporevala, Winston Wilde, Karina Cuevas

In an unprecedented move, President Trump has taken over Washington, D.C.'s police department and activated its National Guard. The federal takeover invokes rare, but legal, presidential authorities, but local officials say he’s wrong to say that crime has spiraled out…

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Under new, unusual agreement, U.S. will get a 15% cut of Nvidia and AMD chip sales to China

By Associated Press

Nvidia and AMD have agreed to share 15% of their revenues from chip sales to China with the U.S. government, as part of a deal to secure export licenses for the semiconductors.

Trump suggests he'll know if Putin wants a peace deal with Ukraine soon into their meeting

By Will Wessert, Associated Press

President Donald Trump said Monday that he expected to determine mere moments into his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin this week whether it would be possible to work out a deal to halt the war in Ukraine.

WATCH: DC Mayor Bowser calls Trump takeover of DC police 'unsettling'

By Associated Press

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that the city had reached a 30-year low in violent crime.

'Playing with fire': Newsom urges Trump to abandon partisan redistricting fight

By Bill Barrow, Associated Press

Texas Republicans are trying to reconvene the state Legislature to vote on redrawing congressional maps in their party's favor.

What to know about the upcoming Trump-Putin summit in Alaska

By Dasha Litvinova, Associated Press

The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening at a site where East meets West in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold War front line of missile defense, radar outposts and intelligence gathering.

Judge to hear case on whether Trump violated federal law with National Guard deployment in LA

By Janie Har, Olga R. Rodriguez, Associated Press

A federal judge will hear arguments on whether military troops deployed by the Trump administration to Los Angeles violated a federal law that bars troops from conducting law enforcement duties within the country.