BY REBECCA BEITSCH AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
White House efforts to tighten its grip on the Washington, D.C., police force are prompting pushback from the city's leaders, escalating tensions as the Trump administration sought to compel Washington's help with immigration enforcement.
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday sought to install an "emergency police commissioner" to approve any new Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) policies, while also demanding the department aid in federal immigration arrests.
It has led the administration in the span of a week to lose the cooperative tone struck Monday, when Bondi claimed she had a "productive meeting" with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and said the two would "work closely" together. |
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed to back away from appointing a commissioner to take command of Washington, D.C., police after a federal judge expressed concerns Friday.
Government attorneys said at a hearing that Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) head Terry Cole will instead become President Trump's designee to request services from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) under the president's emergency authority invoked this week. |
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BY REMA RAHMAN AND COLIN MEYN |
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin left the world guessing on Friday after a historic summit that yielded no details about what was discussed, what was agreed to and what remaining sticking points remain to ending the war with Ukraine.
The two leaders holed up behind closed doors for around three hours at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. What they talked about, however, remains largely a mystery as the two leaders, standing side-by-side at a joint news conference, revealed very little of what "progress" they said was made. They took no questions from the press. |
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President Trump said it is up to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to get a peace deal done with Russia after the U.S. president met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.
"It's a terrible war where both are losing a lot, it would be a great achievement for them, forget about me," Trump said during an exclusive interview granted to Fox News host Sean Hannity after his summit with Putin.
Trump said there are "many" points he and Putin agree on after meeting with the Russian leader but added "it's really up to PresidentZelensky to get it done."
"I would also say the European Nations, they have to get involved a little bit," Trump told Hannity. "And if they'd like, I'd be at that next meeting. They're going to set up a meeting now … not that I want to be there, but I want to make sure it gets done. And we have a pretty good shot of getting it done." |
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BY CAROLINE VAKIL AND JULIA MUELLER |
Texas House Democrats who fled the state to stall a Republican redistricting plan have signaled they're ready to return to the Lone Star State in the coming days.
The Texas state legislature wrapped up its first special session on Friday, one of the conditions the Democrats gave for ending their quorum break. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) quickly called a second special session, with Democrats' anticipated return set to clear the way for the Texas House to move forward with an aggressive gerrymander that could net five more House seats for the GOP in the midterms.
But the quorum-breaking Texas Democrats are touting the national attention they've brought to the redistricting fight and looking for hope from California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has vowed to move forward with his own new map. |
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Democrats on Friday released a proposed new California congressional map as they aim to counter Republican-led redistricting efforts in Texas.
The proposal was submitted to the state legislature on behalf of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and comes as the latest development in an intensifying redistricting fight. |
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BY ALEJANDRA O'CONNELL-DOMENECH |
Lawmakers and activists in Europe and the United States are scrambling to stop the State Department from destroying nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The contraceptives have been sitting in a warehouse in Belgium for months after President Trump froze all U.S foreign aid and shuttered USAID earlier this year.
"They are not even close to being expired," said Nabeeha Kazi Hutchins, president and CEO of reproductive health rights group PAI, adding the government "could redistribute them or could let an entity or a set of entities acquire them, but the administration has opposed that." |
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The Trump administration is taking a page out of Ukraine's playbook when it comes to drone warfare, according to the Pentagon's chief technology officer.
Emil Michael, the under secretary of Defense for research and engineering, said Russia's more than three-year invasion of Ukraine has shown the new trajectory of warfare, one that the U.S. and the rest of the world is learning from. "When you see Ukraine and Russia, that's more likely that sort of trajectory of warfare where the front lines are not humans and tanks; the front lines are machines and robots figuring out how to counter each other. And that's a big lesson," he told NewsNation's Mills Hayes |
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been staying rent-free in the home reserved for the top Coast Guard official following death threats, drawing scrutiny and criticism from congressional Democrats.
The Department of Homeland Security said it was a wide range of death threats, as well as reporting that showed the area around Noem's Navy Yard condo that spurred the unusual arrangement at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, where the Coast Guard commandant typically lives. |
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BY MARC L. BUSCH AND INU MANAK |
OPINION | President Trump has taken an expansive view of his authority to levy tariffs in his second term trade war with nearly every U.S. trading partner.
Calling on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Trump administration has imposed tariffs at rates not seen since the 1930s, claiming to address a national emergency caused by fentanyl trafficked across the border and persistent trade deficits. |
BY ZAIN KHAWAJA AND MANAV MIDHA |
OPINION | During one of our (Zain's) last year of medical school, I took care of a 70-year-old woman who was admitted for a mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation. She was requiring slightly more oxygen than she was typically on at home and felt short of breath. She began recovering quite well during the first day of her hospital stay — stable, walking short distances and excited to go home. However, she wasn't yet ready to be discharged without any oversight.
The typical next step would be to keep her in the hospital another night, continuing her exposure to the risks of inpatient medicine: hospital-acquired infection, exhaustion from the persistent monitor beeps and flashes, and another night away from the comfort of her family. |
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BY CLYDE MCGRADY AND KENNY HOLSTON |
In the Congress Heights neighborhood in the southeast corner of Washington, D.C., where there have been several murders and more than a dozen robberies so far this year, residents have greeted President Trump's promise of liberation from crime with a mix of skepticism, suspicion and outright derision.
It's not that they don't believe crime is a problem in the nation's capital. They know it is. |
BY SUMMER SAID, ROBBIE GRAMER AND OMAR ABDEL-BAQUI |
Israel and the U.S. are pushing forward efforts to relocate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, a move they have presented in humanitarian terms but which governments in Europe and the Arab world have criticized as unrealistic and a potential violation of international law.
The idea, which Israeli officials have publicly mulled since the beginning of the war in Gaza, got its biggest airing early this year when President Trump said the U.S. should take over the enclave and redevelop it as an international tourist destination while relocating many of its two million residents. |
Months before New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was set to leave office because of term limits, she has been indicted in what prosecutors allege was a yearslong scheme to conceal a romantic relationship with her bodyguard.
Prosecutors say bodyguard Jeffrey Vappie was being paid as if he was working when he and Cantrell were really alone in apartments and visiting vineyards, hiding their communication by sending encrypted messages through WhatsApp and then deleting them. Although the pair have said their relationship was strictly professional, the indictment described it as "personal and intimate." |
President Donald Trump's deployment of federal law enforcement in Washington has stoked alarm in the nation's capital, putting residents on edge and fueling a sense of fear and unease. The president mobilized about 800 members of the National Guard to the city's streets this week, alongside an unprecedented federal takeover of the D.C. police that he described as necessary to stamp out violent crime.
Local and federal authorities so far have cleared out homeless encampments, conducted traffic stops at a checkpoint and made arrests. On Thursday, the Trump administration signaled it would use the takeover of D.C. to increase its crackdown on immigration, as Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an order formalizing the government's grip over the D.C. police. |
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