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Authorities Clear D.C. Homeless Camps as Part of Trump’s Takeover

City officials and advocates for the homeless had spent much of Thursday urging people in encampments to go to shelters.

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Metropolitan Police Department personnel stand by as a shelter hotline van arrives near the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington on Thursday.
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For D.C., Threats of a Federal Takeover Were Familiar. Now They Are a Reality.

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.

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Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., at a news conference on Monday.
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D.C. Mayor Calls Trump’s Police Takeover ‘Unsettling’ but Promises Cooperation

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.

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Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., during a Monday news conference.
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Trump Threatens Federal Takeover of Washington After Member of DOGE Is Assaulted

President Trump shared a photograph that appeared to show a 19-year-old software engineer shirtless and bloodied, after an attempted carjacking in the capital.

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President Trump boarding Air Force One on Sunday.
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How Louisiana Became ICE Detention Central

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to operate more like a business — like FedEx or Amazon. Brent McDonald and Campbell Robertson traveled to a small commercial airport in Alexandria, La., that has become the No. 1 ICE transit hub in the country.
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