A Capitol security official briefed senators on enhanced security precautions, and lawmakers in both parties said more funding was needed to protect themselves.
President Trump appointed her to clinch a conservative legal revolution. But soon after arriving at the Supreme Court, she began surprising her colleagues.
Officials said more than 18 miles of anti-scale fencing had been installed in Washington, snaking around the White House campus and along the National Mall.
“I don’t feel like a king, I have to go through hell to get stuff approved,” President Trump said of the planned demonstrations against his administration.
President Trump spoke to reporters at the White House on Thursday, arguing he does not “feel like a king,” in response to a series of protests against his administration scheduled for this weekend.
The agency has taken steps to reduce the risk of midair collisions after a military helicopter struck a commercial flight in January, killing everyone on both crafts.
An investigation will examine what could have prevented an Army Black Hawk helicopter from ramming into an American Airlines flight on Jan. 29, killing all on board both aircraft.
“We have a solemn responsibility to the victims, their families and the flying public to fully understand what went wrong — and to ensure it never happens again,” Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said.
An investigation will examine what could have prevented an Army Black Hawk helicopter from ramming into an American Airlines flight on Jan. 29, killing all on board both aircraft.
“We have a solemn responsibility to the victims, their families and the flying public to fully understand what went wrong — and to ensure it never happens again,” Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said.
Colleagues and friends say Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s 87-year-old nonvoting delegate and a veteran of fights over home rule, is struggling to do her job.
The House passed bills imposing voting and policing policies on the District of Columbia, but the G.O.P. has refused to consider a measure to restore hundreds of millions of dollars of its funding.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, President Trump made no distinction between the right to peacefully assemble that is guaranteed by the First Amendment and engaging in violence and vandalism.
The senators wrote that the Jan. 29 crash highlighted a dangerous pattern of near misses between military and commercial aircraft around Ronald Reagan National Airport.
A federal judge gave Lt. Shane Lamond an 18-month sentence for leaking details of an investigation to Enrique Tarrio, the far-right group’s former leader, and lying about it later.
Washington is hosting WorldPride, a global celebration of the L.G.B.T.Q. community, but the event has been made more difficult by shifts in U.S. policy.
“I knew that there was going to be a shift,” the board president of Capital Pride Alliance said. “I don’t think most of us probably thought it was going to happen so quickly.”
City authorities canceled an initial request to block off the site, an L.G.B.T.Q. gathering spot in Washington, D.C. But the National Park Service opted to close it.
Elon Musk and President Trump at the Oval Office last week. The two had appeared practically inseparable over the first months of Trump’s second administration.
After criticism, the police withdrew a request to close the park this weekend during WorldPride, an international celebration for the L.G.B.T.Q. community.
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