<p>President Trump declares a &#8220;Crime Emergency&#8221; in Washington, D.C., and federalizes the city&#8217;s police force to crack down on rampant crime. In a novel deal, the Trump administration will receive a 15% cut of revenue from U.S. tech companies&#8217; AI chip sales to China. The Trump administration reclaims border wall materials sold off by the previous administration and allocates billions to complete the project.</p>
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<h2><b>Trump Federalizes D.C. Police Amid Crime Wave</b></h2>
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<p><b><span class="citation-261">Topline:</span></b><span class="citation-261 citation-end-261"> President Trump announced on Monday that he is placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control in an unprecedented effort to crack down on the capital&#8217;s rampant violent crime. </span></p>
<p><span class="citation-260 citation-end-260">Invoking the Home Rule Act, President Trump signed an executive order officially declaring a &#8220;Crime Emergency&#8221; in D.C. </span>&#8220;Today, we&#8217;re formally declaring a Public Safety Emergency,&#8221; Trump said from the White House. <span class="citation-259 citation-end-259">&#8220;I don&#8217;t like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful Capital was.&#8221; </span><span class="citation-258 citation-end-258">Attorney General Pam Bondi will now assume control of the city’s police department. </span><span class="citation-257 citation-end-257">Trump also announced the deployment of at least 800 National Guardsmen and hundreds of other federal agents to the city to &#8220;immediately begin massive enforcement operations targeting known gangs, drug dealers and criminal networks.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span class="citation-256 citation-end-256">The move was prompted by D.C.’s soaring crime rate, which last year was the fourth highest in the country. </span><span class="citation-255 citation-end-255">The president is also pushing Congress to eliminate the city&#8217;s no-cash bail policy and end its sanctuary status for illegal aliens. </span></p>
<p><span class="citation-254 citation-end-254">The D.C. Police Union released a statement supporting the federal intervention as a &#8220;critical stopgap.&#8221; </span><span class="citation-253 citation-end-253">Democrats and the legacy media have decried the move, with some calling it the &#8220;road to authoritarianism.&#8221; </span></p>
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<h2><b>U.S. Gets Cut of AI Chip Sales to China</b></h2>
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<p><b><span class="citation-252">Topline:</span></b><span class="citation-252 citation-end-252"> In a first-of-its-kind deal, tech giants Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the U.S. government a 15% share of the revenue they earn from selling certain artificial intelligence chips to China. </span></p>
<p><span class="citation-251 citation-end-251">The agreement is a compromise that allows the American companies to continue selling to the lucrative Chinese market while avoiding a total ban, which the administration had considered due to national security concerns. </span><span class="citation-250 citation-end-250">The specific chips are critical for AI development and have both commercial and military applications. </span></p>
<p><span class="citation-249 citation-end-249">President Trump explained that the deal was possible because the chip in question, the H20, is an &#8220;old chip&#8221; and that China&#8217;s Huawei already has a similar one. </span><span class="citation-248 citation-end-248">&#8220;If I&#8217;m going to do that, I want you to pay us as a country something, because I&#8217;m giving you a release,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://x.com/Acyn/status/1954933614124360120">said</a>. </span></p>
<p><span class="citation-247 citation-end-247">While Nvidia and AMD are relieved to have avoided a total ban, other tech industry leaders are reportedly &#8220;panicking&#8221; over the precedent of the government taking a cut of a private company’s revenue. </span><span class="citation-246 citation-end-246">Nvidia&#8217;s CEO, Jensen Huang, appeared to support the administration&#8217;s goals, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/13/world/video/gps0713-nvidia-us-china-ai">saying</a>, &#8220;We want the American tech stack to be the global standard.&#8221; </span></p>
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<h2><b>Trump Reclaims Border Wall Materials</b></h2>
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<p><b><span class="citation-245">Topline:</span></b><span class="citation-245 citation-end-245"> The Trump administration is reclaiming border wall materials that the previous administration was set to auction off, using billions in new funding to restart construction and complete the &#8220;Big Beautiful Wall.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span class="citation-244 citation-end-244">The company GovPlanet, which had been tasked with selling the materials, has reached an agreement with the administration to transfer them back to the government &#8220;at-cost&#8221; over the next 90 days. </span><span class="citation-243 citation-end-243">The move reverses a Biden administration effort that critics said was intended to hamstring Trump’s border security agenda. </span></p>
<p><span class="citation-242 citation-end-242">The &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill&#8221; allocated nearly $50 billion to complete the border wall. </span><span class="citation-241 citation-end-241">The administration has pointed to recent tragedies as evidence that the wall is still necessary. </span><span class="citation-240 citation-end-240">On Monday, Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, an illegal alien who raped and murdered Rachel Morin, a mother of five, in 2023, was sentenced to life in prison. </span></p>
<p><span class="citation-239 citation-end-239">In a victim impact statement, Morin&#8217;s son said, &#8220;Every time I see a picture of her, I think about the life I had with her and my four sisters. I miss her.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span class="citation-238 citation-end-238">The judge told Hernandez, &#8220;You are not a candidate for rehabilitation. You took a life that was not yours to take.&#8221; </span></p>

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