Bondi Retreats From Police Takeover Order, Allows D.C. Chief to Stay in Command

WASHINGTON — Less than 24 hours after ordering a federal takeover of Washington, D.C.’s police force, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has reversed course, issuing a new directive that keeps Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith in her role as top officer. The about-face came Friday after attorneys from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and…

D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb speaks in 2023

National Guard Deployed to D.C. Under Trump’s Anti-Crime Order

Troops Arrive to Support Local Law Enforcement WASHINGTON — National Guard troops began arriving at the D.C. Armory on Tuesday to carry out President Donald Trump’s directive to combat crime in the nation’s capital. The deployment, ordered on Monday, involves approximately 800 soldiers mobilized by the Army to assist local law enforcement operations. Guard members,…

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Trump Invokes Home Rule Act to Seize Control of D.C. Police — Here’s What He Can and Can’t Do

President Donald Trump on Monday placed Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) under federal control, citing what he described as “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor” in the nation’s capital. In an executive order, Trump invoked Section 740 of the 1973 District of Columbia Home Rule Act—a rarely used provision allowing the president to take charge…

Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take control of the Washington, D.C., police. What the act says he can and can't do

Trump Says Donated Qatari Jet Could Be Ready as Air Force One in Six Months — Experts Remain Doubtful

A Bold Timeline from the President President Donald Trump claimed last month that a Boeing 747-8 jet donated by Qatar could be ready for his use as Air Force One by February 2026—well before the delayed delivery of two new presidential aircraft currently being built by Boeing. “They say February,” Trump told reporters in late…

Trump Says Donated Qatari Jet

Epstein Victims Blast DOJ Over Grand Jury Testimony Unsealing: “This Smacks of a Cover-Up

Outrage Over DOJ’s Approach NEW YORK — Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking ring are voicing outrage at the Justice Department’s handling of efforts to unseal grand jury testimony, as well as its recent cooperation with Maxwell, a convicted sex offender. In letters sent to federal judges, several victims — through their…

Epstein Victims Blast DOJ Over Grand Jury Testimony Unsealing