President Donald Trump will hold a news conference at the White House this morning addressing what he describes as his effort to end violent crime in Washington, DC, and clean up the capital. Follow ...

Trump vowed to let D.C. police “do whatever they want” to suspects during a Monday presser— the same force he abandoned when his supporters beat them on Jan. 6. The post Trump Demands DC Cops Get ...

The mayor of Washington, D.C., held back in criticizing the Trump administration’s decision to send in the troops.

President Donald Trump on Monday invoked a never-before-used authority to seize control of the Washington, D.C. police department and hand it over to the control of his attorney general as he ...

President Donald Trump, justifying his temporary federal takeover of policing in the nation’s capital, claimed at a press ...

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

Media outlets are fact-checking President Donald Trump’s concerns about violence in Washington, D.C., by pointing to misleading crime statistics. D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) only ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has extended the tariff pause on China by 90 days, delaying planned increases until November 9.

Plus, after a man is fatally stabbed in his New York City apartment, former friends say they've been cut out for years.

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