2025-08-13
13 分钟Good morning. It's Wednesday, August 13th.
I'm Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, with Israel's targeted killing of journalists, our lens in Gaza is shrinking,
Trump's unprecedented deal with the world's most valuable company,
and there's no escaping ads at the movies.
But first, members of the D.C.
National Guard started to deploy last night after President Trump's decision to seize control of D.C.'s police and mobilize the military to address crime in a city where violent crime is at a 30-year low.
They've been told they'll be stationed in the Capitol until September 25th.
But what role the Guard will actually play remains unclear.
D.C.'s Mayor Muriel Bowser says her expectation is that they will patrol federal properties,
including parks, monuments, and federal buildings.
Pentagon officials say the Guard will not participate in law enforcement.
They'll only support other federal agents.
But officials did leave open the possibility that these armed troops would be allowed to temporarily detain people.
Throughout his second term,
the president has pushed the boundaries of how the American military can be deployed on U.S. soil.
This has been an ongoing pattern for President Trump, even from his first administration.
Vera Bergen-Gruen is a national security reporter at The Wall Street Journal.
He often sees the military as something he wants to call in or to show that he's serious about something,