97 m. ago Trump told cops to do ‘whatever the hell they want’ to fix DC. Here’s why that’s ‘extremely dangerous’

White House mandate ‘runs roughshod over constitutional rights and due process protections,’ civil rights groups and legal experts tell Alex Woodward

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5 h. ago Strictly star Tom Skinner's life – criminal past, The Apprentice and Donald Trump link

From market trader with a criminal past to TV star dining with Donald Trump’s VP, Tom Skinner’s journey takes a glittering turn as he joins Strictly Come Dancing

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6 h. ago DC braces for massive turning point in Trump's takeover as protesters take the streets shouting 'Go home, fascists'

Trump vowed earlier this week to clean up the streets of the capital and has already sent hundreds of troops with the National Guard in to clean up crime.

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9 h. ago Photos of the National Guard and federal agents in Washington

After President Donald Trump's announcement that his administration would take over Washington’s police department for at least a month, hundreds of members of the National Guard began to arrive in the capital.

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10 h. ago DC troop numbers expected to increase as Trump pushes to extend federal takeover despite dropping crime figures

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has called Trump’s takeover ‘authoritarian’

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15 h. ago Trump’s National Guard takeover of DC gets trolled: ‘Did they bust somebody for pairing Chardonnay with a steak?’

One resident replied, ‘My favorite part is that ‘Donald Trump doesn't like to see it’

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15 h. ago With tariffs, a DC takeover, and Putin summit, Trump is now fully unleashed. And the world’s tolerance for pain put to the test

Wall Street, his own cabinet and numerous civic guardrails stopped Trump from indulging in his own impulses in the first term. Now, Eric Garcia writes, he feels he can do whatever he wants

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20 h. ago Trump’s Washington DC takeover is straight out of a fascist playbook| Moustafa Bayoumi

Some 800 National Guard troops will be deployed in the nation’s capital because, according to the president: ‘our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs’A key chapter in the fascist playbook has always been to convince the public that it is living in such a state of mortal danger and unbridled chaos that the only chance of survival is to cede individual rights to the determined will of the Dear Leader. That’s why fascist leaders have constantly demanded that their populations venerate all violence performed in the service of the state and revere the apparatuses of state violence, such as police forces and the military. In this scenario, state violence is not only necessary for the nation’s survival. State violence is understood as even beautiful, something the public can and must believe in.Buying into state violence this way produces something historian Robert Paxton has called a “mobilizing passion”. In his book The Anatomy of Fascism, Paxton described how “the beauty of...

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26 h. ago The murder capital of the US and a former mayor on crack: DC’s history of crime problems

The president’s depiction of Washington, D.C. as a violent, crime-ridden cesspit is nothing new

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26 h. ago DC takeover latest: Trump deploys National Guard to Washington DC as mayor attacks ‘authoritarian push’

Troops spotted at Armory and Washington Monument as president’s crime crackdown got underway

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27 h. ago DC takeover latest: Trump deploys National Guard to Washington DC streets as mayor attacks ‘authoritarian push’

Troops spotted at armory and Washington Monument as first night of operations for president’s crime crackdown got underway

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27 h. ago Washington Mayor slams Donald Trump's city takeover as troops flood capital

Donald Trump has hinted he will send the National Guard wing of the US armed forces to Democrat-run cities in what his supporters call a crackdown on rampant crime

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29 h. ago DC takeover live: National Guard hit streets of Washington as mayor attacks Trump’s ‘authoritarian push’

Troops spotted at armory and Washington Monument as first night of operations for president’s crime crackdown got underway

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29 h. ago Europe begs Trump not to sell out Ukraine: Zelensky and other leaders urge Donald not to give in to Putin's demands... as Russia surges through frontlines and Hungary's PM says 'they've won the war'

The uncertainty over what the Alaska talks could produce has raised fears in European capitals that Trump and Putin might take major decisions without Kyiv's involvement.

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36 h. ago National guard begins deploying on DC streets after Trump police takeover

Officials say troops to start appearing in nation’s capital on Tuesday night as president’s move widely condemnedUS politics live – latest updatesThe Washington DC national guard will begin deploying on the city’s streets on Tuesday night, a day after Donald Trump ordered their arrival and took control of the city’s police force, calling Washington DC a “lawless” city, despite official crime statistics saying otherwise, a White House official confirmed.The national guard is expected to “begin being on the streets starting tonight”. Defense officials said a small number of the roughly 800 guard members planned for the mission had already been mobilized by Tuesday afternoon, with more expected to arrive in the coming days. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago After D.C., Trump wants to ‘takeover’ New York and Chicago. Can he?

Rules governing deployments of National Guard in states will restrict troops’ ability to conduct law enforcement in most jurisdictions, John Bowden writes

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42 h. ago Karoline Leavitt says chief of police now answers to Trump who is Commander

Trump’s takeover of the D.C. police department will be in force for the next 29 days

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46 h. ago Trump’s military takeover of Washington DC is a sheer demonstration of power | Moira Dongan

No one believes that the deployment of troops to America’s most liberal, most racially diverse, and most culturally thriving cities is about solving a real problemPresident Trump imposed a military takeover of the nation’s capital on Monday, sending National Guard troops to Washington. He also seized control of the DC municipal police department, invoking an obscure section of the 1973 D.C. Home Rule Act which allows the president to take control of local law enforcement in the district for a period of one month in times of emergency.That there is no emergency is irrelevant: Trump has declared one in order to exercise powers that are only available to him in a state of exception, which is, of course, what the whole country increasingly finds itself to be experiencing as the president expands the powers of his office from those of a constitutional executive into something more like the power of authoritarian control.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Trump live: Democrats label president’s DC takeover a ‘distraction’ from Epstein files and rising cost for Americans

The president has placed the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control – but is already facing a backlash

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48 h. ago Core inflation jumps as consumers face higher prices as Trump’s tariffs start to take effect

The report is the first major economic indicator report since Trump fired the the chief statistician for the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Economics