Despite data showing otherwise, President Donald Trump is targeting violent crime and homelessness in Washington, D.C. that he says are on the rise.

Despite President Donald Trump's claims of high crime in Washington D.C., statistics from Washington's Metropolitan Police Department show that violent crime is down 25% from last year.

President Donald Trump is ramping up efforts to curb crime in the nation’s capital on Monday as he threatens a federal takeover of Washington, DC, with plans for FBI agents to patrol the streets all while city officials largely remain deferential to him.

Several European leaders, including France, Germany and the U.K., insist that Ukraine should be included in the high stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Alaska, the venue set for Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s meeting on Friday, could hardly be more symbolic of the Kremlin’s view of the world.

He even envisioned a grand summit to announce a peace deal. But Putin rejected repeated American calls to stop his attacks. And Trump, in recent months, began to take that personally, complaining privately to advisers—and then eventually in public—that Putin would tell him one thing in their phone calls (that he was committed to peace) and then act entirely differently afterward (by bombing Ukraine).