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Reporting by Joey Garrison and Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY Network WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s 30-day public emergency declaration in Washington is set to expire after Sept. 10, ending the federal takeover of the city’s police department but not the presence of the military in the nation’s capital. Trump’s deployment of thousands of National Guard […]

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

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

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

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

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

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,