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Federal police activity continues to be felt in nation’s capital

Federal law enforcement’s presence in Washington, DC, continued to be felt Wednesday as President Donald Trump’s takeover of ...

Trump claims Washington’s murder rate is higher than Bogotá or Mexico City. Here’s what the stats from those countries say

The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia; Mexico City, or some of the places that you hear ...

Trump’s Washington, DC, crackdown is a political stunt. But it could take a much darker turn

In his first term, President Donald Trump spun alternative realities. In his second, he’s making everyone live in them.

Trump gets what he wants in DC crackdown as Democrats fumble response

This week is a reminder that Democrats are still vulnerable to the classic GOP law-and-order gambit deployed by Presidents ...

The thing Trump’s generals feared about him could now be arriving

A big unknown with President Donald Trump’s move Monday to federalize the DC Metropolitan Police and deploy the National ...

FBI agents are again pulled from their day jobs to address a Trump priority

FBI agents – thrust into yet another role for which they are not trained – have been put on patrol duties with local police as part of President Donald Trump’s declaration of a crime emergency in ...

Trump deployed the National Guard and declared federal control of DC police. Here’s how he is able to do it

The DC National Guard began appearing in the nation’s capital on Tuesday after President Donald Trump announced a day earlier ...

2 reasons Trump calling in troops in DC is so extraordinary

For years, it has seemed as if President Donald Trump really wanted to deploy the military on US soil and was just looking ...

Trump’s DC police takeover was fueled by attack on former DOGE staffer and his own observations of homelessness, allies say

Trump has long focused on crime and cleanliness in DC and other cities, sparring periodically with Democratic mayors during ...