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Washington, DC, sues to block Donald Trump’s federal takeover of its police department as crackdown intensifies
WASHINGTON — The nation’s capital sued to block President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after his administration escalated its intervention into the city’s law enforcement by naming a federal official as the new emergency head of the department.
The moves to seize control of district’s police and deploy the National Guard build on the president’s earlier rhetoric to ...
And in the late 1980s and 1990s, D.C. claimed the title of “murder capital” of the U.S. as homicide rates hit record highs ...
Tension in the nation's capital escalated over the question of who controls the city's police department after Washington, D.C.'s Attorney General sued over the White House's bid for full control.
The Democratic mayor of Washington, Muriel Bowser, has authority over the city's Metropolitan Police Department. But a ...
The Mayor of Washington DC has slammed Donald Trump's takeover of the city an "authoritarian push" as National Guard troops ...
The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia; Mexico City, or some of the places that you hear ...
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How the 1973 D.C. Home Rule Act Enabled the Nation’s Capital to Govern Itself—With Congressional Oversight
Far from being a new debate brought on by current events, the discussion over extending home rule to Washingtonians has been ...
Critics have expressed skepticism at data coming from the Metropolitan Police Department of the U.S. capital. Snopes looked ...
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