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National Guard troops and federal law enforcement are patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C.

With additional reinforcements on the way.

NPR's Rachel Treesman reports it's not clear how long they can stay.

The Home Rule Act only allows the president to control D.C.

police for 30 days without authorization from Congress.

Trump said last week he would ask for an extension.

The president can use D.C.'s National Guard as long as he wants.

The White House did not respond to questions about a potential timeline for withdrawing Guard troops.

Legal experts say they could potentially be removed through court rulings or congressional action.

There are also practical considerations.

Republican governors in the South could recall their state guards to help with hurricane relief.

Rachel Treason, NPR News.

Here's the latest on Hurricane Erin.

The large Category 2 storm is now packing sustained winds of 110 miles per hour as it creeps up the Atlantic coast.

Erin is about 215 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

Forecasters say Erin is not likely to make landfall, but authorities are warning the heavy surf and high winds will whip up life-threatening conditions along the outer banks of North Carolina and cause rip currents from Florida to New York.

At Pops Raw Bar in Buxton, North Carolina, this man, Christian Gray Hanberger, was enjoying the last moments of sunshine before the storms hit, electing not to evacuate.

All my friends are still here, and it looks like it's going to be mandatory, I mean, mainly oceanside flooding.

And if it's only oceanside flooding, I live on the sound side and I've got a creek right by my house, so I should be good.

So I didn't see a big threat.

But mandatory evacuations are in place for Hatteras and Orocoqu Islands.

The International Criminal Court, the ICC, is blasting the latest round of sanctions imposed on its judges by President Trump.

Terry Schultz reports the White House is penalizing the Hague-based ICC for investigating U.S.

as well as Israeli officials.

The ICC calls it a flagrant attack on judicial freedom that the Trump administration has imposed sanctions on two prosecutors and two judges involved in the court's probe of U.S.

actions in Afghanistan and of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

It's the second round of sanctions Washington has launched against the court, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls a security threat to the U.S.

The measures freeze the assets of two judges from Canada and France, as well as deputy prosecutors from Fiji and Senegal.

The French government, which reaffirmed its support for the ICC, is calling on the U.S.

to remove the sanctions.

For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz.

Minneapolis-based Target is promoting its chief executive officer, the the COO, Michael Fiedelkeel, to the CEO's position, taking over for Brian Corell, who led the company for 11 years, who will step aside on February 1st.

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Hulu is now streaming the twisted tale of Amanda Knox.

She's the American exchange student imprisoned in Italy after her British roommate was murdered in 2007.

NPR's Mandalique Del Barco reports Knox is one of the executive producers along with Monica Lewinsky.

The eight-part series dramatizes the 20-year-old who was vilified in the media as Foxy Knoxy.

Amanda Knox spent four years in prison in Perugia, convicted of murder twice before Italy's highest court exonerated her based on DNA.

Knox says she hopes the series clears her name.

After having been ostracized and vilified and literally imprisoned, I wanted people to relate to my experience.

I wanted them to say, I understand.

Knox joined forces with Monica Lewinsky.

The former White House intern was at the center of a sex scandal in 1998 with then-U.S.

President Bill Clinton.

I had so much compassion for what she had gone through.

These days, both Lewinsky and Knox are podcasters and activists, and now TV producers.

Mandalit Del Barco and PR News.

In London, higher prices for food and airfare pushed inflation in the UK above expectations in July.

Consumer inflation in July was 3.8%, up from 3.6%,

well well above what the Bank of England is seeking at 2%.

On Wall Street, the Dow

finished up 16 points at 44,938.

The NASDAQ declined by 142 points to close at 21,172.

The S ⁇ P had a loss of 15 points, 6,395.

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