The order expanded a previous one in April that barred the Trump administration from withholding federal funding to 16 cities and counties over their local laws.
The president’s attacks on the Smithsonian Institution and other museums have become an effort to redefine why such places exist.
President Trump wants to use Washington as a template to target crime in cities around the country.
The president of the arts center cited the TV show “So You Think You Can Dance” as the type of programming that could be more broadly appealing to audiences.
It remains unclear whether the National Guard soldiers will be armed as they walk through the city.
The historically Black university has faced the possibility of a Trump administration budget cut, and students were outraged over billing troubles.
Times journalists reviewed hundreds of images and videos of law enforcement agents to determine what they have been doing on the ground.
Using the full power of the federal government, President Trump has promoted a vision of America that challenges the legitimacy of the Black experience.
President Trump’s deputy chief of staff, joined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, visited National Guard members at Union Station and were met with jeers by people in transit.
Even as the president is putting on a show, he’s also doing everything he can to reach his ultimate aim.
The number of troops in the city is expected to grow. But Army officials appear to be trying to keep them on the sidelines of President Trump’s mission.
The same U.S. attorney’s office that praised a drop in crime in the capital in April has begun an investigation into the Police Department resisting President Trump’s takeover.
Almost six months after a stormy encounter with President Trump, the Ukrainian president returned for high-stakes talks bringing allies and a new approach.
President Trump has latched on to concerns about crime, as liberals point to its decline. The politics often flip when it comes to mass shootings.
Los migrantes que viven y trabajan en la ciudad dicen que quieren que se reduzca la delincuencia violenta, pero temen que los esfuerzos de ICE puedan empeorar la situación.
Crime is tricky territory for Democrats and President Trump knows it.
Ohio, West Virginia and South Carolina have also deployed the Guard to Washington to support President Trump’s crackdown on the city.
Immigrants who live and work in the city say they want violent crime lowered but fear that ICE efforts could make it worse.
Readers condemn the Trump administration’s plans to remove some Smithsonian exhibits. Also: Secrets of aging well.
Some on the street have been forced to move, while others are fearful they could be next. Many face an even more uncertain future.
Democrats see the federal takeover of Washington as a way for President Trump to stoke fear for political gain. But they are mindful that issues of public safety continue to resonate with their own supporters.
The nation’s most trusted institution must not be reduced to a political tool.
At Fort Dupont Park, thousands gathered to honor a local music legend, creating a brief refuge from the conflict.
A largely peaceful march filled downtown Washington with chants and whistles.
As the U.S. attorney in Washington, Jeanine Pirro is a central player in a clash that could define her legacy: the president’s takeover of local law enforcement.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey said the state would send 300 to 400 troops to Washington to support Mr. Trump’s “initiative to restore cleanliness and safety” to the city.
It was the first such action by the Guard since its deployment in Washington.
Democrats should remember: “It’s the crime, stupid!”
It’s been a summer full of Trump’s overreach. Our round table convenes to discuss.
Se ha ofrecido una importante recompensa por ayudar a detener a Jimmy Cherizier, líder de una banda conocido como ‘Barbecue’. Los expertos dudan de que sirva de algo.
A major bounty has been offered for help apprehending Jimmy Cherizier, a gang leader known as “Barbecue.” Experts have doubts about whether it will make any difference.
The president might have found allies in Southeast Washington, where violent crime has long vexed residents. But when he described the city as “disgusting,” with “roving mobs,” his remarks left those looking for help cold.
A warm and muggy Friday night seemed to have a typical ballgame atmosphere in Washington.
The administration’s grip on the city has only tightened as the week has worn on, while pushback has begun to intensify.
After a federal judge threatened to block an order federalizing Washington, D.C.’s police, the Justice Department agreed to clarify that the city’s police chief remains in charge, for now.
Local police now under federal oversight dismantled encampments, discarding tents and other belongings.
The city’s limited self-governance has set the stage for the president’s police takeover.
Concerns came to a head during the pandemic, when carjackings surged and many of those arrested were children. Carjackings and other crimes have declined considerably.
Readers criticize a guest essay about the pleasures of smoking. Also: The trauma of jury duty; the federalized police in Washington, D.C.
The legislation has little chance of success, given that Republicans control Congress.
The suit argues that the move to federalize the city’s Police Department was a “brazen usurpation of the district’s authority” that exceeded the president’s authority.
In the nation’s capital, federal agents have operated a sobriety checkpoint, made gun and drug busts and carried out other day-to-day police work. Some residents are uneasy.
City officials and advocates spent much of the day trying to clear the city’s dozens of homeless camps, urging people to go to shelters ahead of expected federal raids.
President Trump deployed the troops as part of his attempt to fight crime that he has claimed is “out of control,” although official data shows that crime in the nation’s capital has been sharply falling in the last two years.
The Trump administration has taken steps that have hobbled Washington’s efforts to reduce crime, such as gutting its U.S. attorney’s office and enacting budget cuts of more than $1 billion.
The 800 soldiers, in round-the-clock shifts of 100 to 200, will support Washington police and federal law enforcement officers.
Chief Pamela A. Smith’s order effectively serves as a carve-out to how the department enforces a broader ban that prohibits the local police from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.
Federal agents are assisting the local police, but a surge in National Guard troops hasn’t hit the streets.
Pediatricians call for keeping migrant families intact. Also: Nuclear pessimism; a view from Canada; “cleaning up” D.C.; food stamps; books, read and unread.
The president and his allies have berated local officials. Yet the federal government has often made it harder for those officials to manage the capital.
Reflections on social cohesion and law enforcement can help policymakers reduce crime even further.
The police and federal agents set up a vehicle checkpoint on 14th street, drawing protesters who directed drivers away from the block.
President Trump is the first president to use a declared emergency to wrest control of Washington, D.C.’s police force.
The Army expects up to 200 soldiers out on the capital’s streets within the next few days at any given time in support of federal law enforcement.
El martes aparecieron soldados cerca del Monumento a Washington, pero seguía sin estar claro si la demostración de fuerza estaría a la altura de la retórica apocalíptica del presidente.
The president and his allies have reshaped the military for their own purposes.
If the actual conditions of reality will not give him a state of exception, he’ll create one himself.
The president cited a number of false and misleading claims about homicides and youth crime in the nation’s capital.
El presidente Trump comparó la delincuencia en Washington con la violencia en algunas capitales latinoamericanas. La jefa de gobierno de Ciudad de México dijo que “en muchas partes del mundo se quisiera tener” la seguridad de su ciudad.
President Trump compared crime in Washington to violence in Latin American capitals. Mexico City’s mayor said “many parts of the world would like to have” her city’s safety.
Readers criticize the president’s order to send in federal troops. Also: The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska; fake science papers; defining masculinity.
Mayor Muriel Bowser said city leaders were focused on how to make the most of the additional federal support.
President Trump said that he was temporarily taking control of the Washington, D.C., police department and deploying 800 National Guard troops. Campbell Robertson, a reporter for the National desk, describes what to know about the takeover.
We look at crime in the nation’s capital and President Trump’s legal authority to intervene.
The president’s announcement was an extraordinary exertion of federal power over an American city.
Plus, a quiet crisis for America’s jurors.
“It’s a natural instinct as a real estate person,” he said in announcing his federal takeover of the capital’s police, despite falling crime.
My hometown is indolent and inhospitable, and so am I.
Federal law gives presidents the power to take over Washington’s police force after declaring an emergency, but Donald Trump is the first president to do so.
President Trump has long railed about crime in blue cities. Now he’s effectively put himself in charge of policing one of them.
Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, seemed resigned to President Trump’s announced takeover of local police, telling reporters that the city’s home rule charter gave him the right to do so.
The National Guard troops who will move into Washington, D.C., will not perform law enforcement tasks but may be able to detain people temporarily, officials said.
President Trump painted a dystopian picture of Washington as he announced that he would temporarily place the Capital’s police under federal control, as well as mobilize hundreds of National Guard troops in the city.
Six months into the president’s second term, the National Guard has already been deployed twice — once for protests and once for local crime concerns.
A three-day trial opened Monday in state officials’ challenge of the legality of the deployment, which followed protests over immigration raids.
The demonstrators said the president’s actions were the latest blow to a city that has been among the hardest hit by his executive orders and policies.
Ankit Jain, the shadow Senator for the District of Columbia, said President Trump should focus on adding judges, not policing.
La semana pasada, el presidente de EE. UU. intensificó sus amenazas de poner la capital bajo control federal después de que un destacado miembro del DOGE fuera agredido durante un intento de robo.
The deployment is part of President Trump’s crackdown on street crime in the city.
The deployment is part of President Trump’s crackdown on street crime in the city.
The move is part of President Trump’s pledge to crack down on street crime in the nation’s capital.
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
The deployment follows President Trump’s effort to portray the nation’s capital as rife with violent crime, despite data showing crime rates dropping significantly.
President Trump shared a photograph that appeared to show a 19-year-old software engineer shirtless and bloodied, after an attempted carjacking.
Dōgon is bigger and more polished than its New York cousin, but every bit as ambitious.
Albert Pike was a Confederate general and diplomat who negotiated alliances with slave-owning Native American tribes during the Civil War.
Plus, why airlines are making everything “premium.”
The White House Historical Association recently unveiled its replica of President Trump’s Oval Office, but it mirrors the office from his first term, before he festooned it with gold.
Light pollution from Washington, and even the passenger jet’s dim lights, might have contributed to difficulties spotting American Airlines Flight 5342 before the two aircraft collided on Jan. 29, Army experts said.
Air traffic control managers told the National Transportation Safety Board that F.A.A. leaders rebuffed efforts over the years to address hazardous conditions that played a role in the Jan. 29 crash.
For years, the more than 10,000 items in the International Spy Museum’s collection were stored at a location outside Washington. That changed this summer.
After hours of testimony and thousands of pages of new documents, here’s what emerged in the first day of a marathon National Transportation Safety Board hearing.
Flight instruments probably led the Black Hawk crew to believe the helicopter was lower than it actually was before the collision with a commercial airplane on Jan. 29.
The legislation, led by Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican chairman of a panel that oversees air travel, has a number of high-profile supporters — but no Democrats, yet.
In a letter to Congress, the lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator says clemency would allow her to talk to lawmakers.
Inventive spots for Mexican and Japanese American cuisine join the list, and we bid a fond farewell to a D.C. favorite closing at the end of year.
The lawsuit argues that the federal government’s demand was an attempt to obtain sensitive personal information for use outside the food stamp program.
A verbal gymnast on and off the page (as well as a musician and photographer), he was a founder of the Dark Room Collective, a community of writers, and fostered a boom in Black poetry.
President Trump is trying to divert attention from the Epstein conspiracy theory with new-and-improved one about Barack Obama and treason.
More than half of the agency’s 4,600 Washington employees will be spread across five regional hubs.
The woman, 29, was struck by her own vehicle after the suspects began driving away, the police said.
Workers in Washington have returned to the office slowly, with a pervasive and pronounced effect on the local economy.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.
The country is on track for a record drop in homicides, and many other categories of crime are also in decline, according to the F.B.I.
The president has promised a veto, but Republicans scored another win in their campaign to put Congress on record against White House policies.
Many of the nation’s major cities face a daunting future.
In cities, especially, monuments have become not just an artistic genre unto themselves but evanescent, ever-evolving tributes to those we lost — and continue to lose.
We visited 10 cities across the country to see how the pandemic and its aftershocks have reshaped the American downtown.
Plus Russia prepares for show trials and Taiwan does not rise to China’s provocations.
As remote work persists and business deals are sealed online, many upscale restaurants that catered to the nation’s downtown office crowd are canceling the meal.
President Biden also visited a vaccination site in Washington, D.C. ahead of his remarks.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was among the attendees reporting coronavirus infections on Wednesday.
Cases are not uncommon in Washington these days, and there is no certainty that those who tested positive were infected at the dinner.