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What is redshirting? The controversy for parents’ rights causes stir in Washington, DC

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Reporting by Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY Network Jennifer Lilintahl said she knew her 5-year-old daughter wasn’t ready to learn how to read with other kids her age in the kindergarten classes last school year at Lafayette Elementary School in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Although her daughter was eligible to attend kindergarten due […]

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National Guard to start carrying weapons in DC this weekend as nearly 2,000 troops deploy

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Reporting by Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY Network WASHINGTON – National Guard troops could start carrying weapons on the streets of Washington, DC as soon as this weekend after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed soldiers deployed to President Donald Trump’s police and military crackdown on the capital to arm themselves. For two weeks on the streets

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Trump calls for death penalty for anyone charged with killing someone in Washington, DC

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Reporting by Josh Meyer, USA TODAY Network WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced Aug. 26 that anyone who kills a person in the nation’s capital will be charged with the death penalty, a vow that will likely ratchet up the already heated national debate about capital punishment. Trump was talking about reducing crime in Washington

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

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Reporting by Michelle Del Rey , USA TODAY Network Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser is advocating for the city to become the 51st state after President Donald Trump announced the federal government would take control of the local Metropolitan Police Department. Bowser, who has been the city’s mayor since 2015, made the remarks during an

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Trump is right about homeless camps: Make them ‘move out, IMMEDIATELY’

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I came across this article on the USA Today Network and want to ask the question; Deep down inside how many D.C. residents agree with this sentiment? We drive by it, through it, and walk around it everyday in all parts of the city. We may even know someone who’s found themselves homeless and on

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The MPD Gets Away With It–Again

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On October 23, 2020, Metropolitan Police Department officer Terence Sutton initiated an unauthorized police pursuit that killed Karon Hylton-Brown, a twenty-year-old African American father to an infant. For ten full minutes, Sutton followed Hylton-Brown in an unmarked car at speeds prosecutors called “unreasonable.” Hylton-Brown was riding a rental scooter without a helmet on. The pursuit,

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National Guard from Republican states heading to DC: What you need to know

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Reporting by Michael Loria, USA TODAY Network Hundreds of National Guard members from Republican-led states will join federal troops on the ground in Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital. Trump seized control of the District’s police force and mobilized 800 soldiers from the Washington, D.C. National

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Notice a theme to Trump’s planned takeovers of cities? These Black mayors do.

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Reporting by Deborah Barfield Berry and Terry Collins, USA TODAY Network OAKLAND, CA ‒ Mayor Barbara Lee and other officials in this California city are treating President Donald Trump’s warning that he might send the National Guard there as more than just an offhand comment. They’re bracing for a fight. Lee and other Black mayors,

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