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DC mayor says Trump takeover shows why US capital should be 51st state

America needs to know why your nation’s capital, a place where 700,000 tax-paying Americans live, should be the 51st state,” ...

MSNBC host reveals DC journalist privately shared concerns about crime while publicly denouncing Trump's plan

Joe Scarborough pointed out on "Morning Joe" contradictions between reporters' private safety concerns and public criticism ...

Crime in DC: What do the figures say and how safe do people feel?

National Guard troops have been seen reporting for duty in Washington DC as President Trump takes over the city’s police ...

President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about DC echoes a history of racist narratives about urban crime

President Donald Trump has taken control of the District of Columbia’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to ...

Symone Sanders-Townsend cites her expertise as 'a Black woman' to argue why more cops won't make DC safer

Townsend argued that her life experience as a Black woman in America provides a unique perspective on why adding more police will not actually make Americans safer in Washington D.C.

Assessing small boat crossings and fact-checking Trump's Washington DC crime claim

While we wait for those figures, you can read our overnight fact-check on President Trump’s claim that crime in Washington DC ...

A ‘splashy, media-worthy, performative political gesture’: McCabe on Trump DC takeover

The former deputy director of the FBI says declaring a crime emergency in Washington is “essentially fictitious.” ...

Philadelphia DA Krasner, religious leaders call Trump’s DC police takeover racist, say there’s no legal avenue to do the same in Philly

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and city religious leaders on Tuesday decried President Donald Trump’s plan to ...