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For National Guard Troops in D.C., It’s Trash Pickup and Metro Patrols

Par :Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt
Thousands of armed troops are deployed as part of President Trump’s crime crackdown. So far, it has been a lot of beautification projects and assisting the local police.

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Just over 2,300 National Guard troops are deployed in the nation’s capital as part of President Trump’s crackdown on crime.
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Norton Says Little as Bills to Clamp Down on D.C. Advance

Par :Annie Karni
At a heated committee session on bills exerting more federal control of Washington, the 88-year-old delegate sat quietly, reading with difficulty from a script.

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The session on Wednesday was a fresh reminder of Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton’s frailty and limitations at a critical moment for her city.
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One of Trump’s Powers Over D.C. Reaches a Time Limit. Many Remain.

Par :Campbell Robertson
The president’s authority to make demands of local police expires on Wednesday night, but the most visible federal interventions in the city will remain for now.

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Members of the National Guard patrolled the National Mall in Washington, D.C., earlier this month.
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One of Trump’s Powers Over D.C. Reaches a Time Limit. Many Remain.

Par :Campbell Robertson
The president’s authority to make demands of local police expires on Wednesday night, but the most visible federal interventions in the city will remain for now.

© Alex Kent for The New York Times

Members of the National Guard patrolled the National Mall in Washington, D.C., earlier this month.
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Protesters Call Out Trump as He Dines Out in Washington

Par :Tyler Pager
Mr. Trump made the short trek from the White House to Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab to show that his federal crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital was working.

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President Trump speaking to reporters in front of Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab restaurant in Washington on Tuesday.
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Trump Says Having ‘a Little Fight With the Wife’ Should Not Count as a Crime

Par :Luke Broadwater
President Trump said that offenses that happen at home should not undermine his record of crime reduction in Washington.

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President Trump speaking on Monday at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, where he made a series of false statements about the level of crime in the nation’s capital.
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Arrested by Federal Agents, Some D.C. Residents Languished in Jail for Days

Par :Minho Kim
At least 11 defendants stayed in jail cells longer than the law allows, in what former prosecutors and criminal lawyers see as a violation of their constitutional rights.

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Courts are grappling with an influx of cases since National Guard troops and federal agents fanned out across the streets of Washington.
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Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Wave of Charges Under Trump’s Crackdown

Par :Alan Feuer
The persistent rejections suggest that the grand jurors may have had enough of prosecutors seeking harsh charges in a highly politicized environment.

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Grand jurors have refused in at least seven recent cases to indict their fellow residents who became entangled in the president’s show of force.
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Man Accused of Killing Israeli Embassy Staffers Pleads Not Guilty

Par :Zach Montague
At an arraignment on Thursday, Elias Rodriguez faced federal hate crime and other charges that could result in the death penalty.

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A vigil for Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky near the White House in May.
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Federal Appeals Court Reinstates an F.T.C. Commissioner Fired by Trump

Par :Cecilia Kang
The court said the commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, had been illegally terminated “without cause.”

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday reinstated Rebecca Kelly Slaughter to the Federal Trade Commission, saying she had been fired without cause.
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Trump’s D.C. Crime Crackdown Shows Administration’s Uneasy Relationship With Guns

Par :Glenn Thrush
If President Trump’s actions were intended to drive a law-and-order wedge between Democratic big-city leaders and their constituents, it has also exposed a division in his own coalition.

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National Guard troops around the National Mall in Washington. President Trump declared a crime emergency in the capital in August.
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Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington

Par :David W. Chen
Republican governors who have mustered National Guard troops for deployment in blue-state cities may re-examine their deployments if federal intervention significantly brings crime down.

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National Guard troops patrolling around the Washington Monument.
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Pirro Defends Guard Deployment and Takeover of D.C. Police Force

Par :Eric Schmitt
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, also deflected criticism of a case in which her office was unable to obtain an indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent.

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More than 2,200 member of the National Guard have been deployed in Washington.
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Judge Halts U.S. Effort to Deport Guatemalan Children as Planes Sit on Tarmac

Par :Miriam Jordan and Aishvarya Kavi
The temporary block ended another last-minute flurry of legal action over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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A relative of an unaccompanied minor deported from the United States reviewing a list of those deported outside La Aurora International Airport, in Guatemala City on Sunday.
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For Democrats, Hindsight Is 2021

Par :Reid J. Epstein
Democrats once had a chance to blunt a couple of the moves President Trump is making now, on redistricting and the takeover of the police force in Washington, D.C.

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The U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Back in the spring of 2021, when Democrats controlled the House and Senate, there were two measures that would have helped to protect against some of President Trump’s current moves.
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Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Prosecutors’ Efforts to Level Harsh Charges Against Residents

Par :Alan Feuer
The extraordinary pushback in at least three separate cases comes as President Trump has flooded the streets with National Guard troops and federal agents.

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Crime has fallen in Washington since federal agents started policing Washington’s streets in large numbers, but the surge has chafed against some residents who have found the presence of troops and agents to be a cause of fear, not of security.
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2 Weeks, 1,000 Arrests: How a Surge of Feds Changed D.C. Policing

Par :Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs · Jeff Adelson · Campbell Robertson and Bernard Mokam
Crime has fallen since federal agents started policing the streets of Washington in large numbers. Court records show that they have been involved in about a third of arrests that resulted in prosecution, many of them for minor offenses.

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Many of the arrests in Washington, D.C., involving federal agents have been for low-level offenses. A man was taken into custody in the Columbia Heights neighborhood Aug. 22 on a charge of smoking marijuana in public.
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Trump’s D.C. Law Enforcement Takeover Has Black Parents on Edge

Par :Clyde McGrady and Bernard Mokam
The deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops has caused some Black parents to return to the days of “the talk” about policing that they had hoped was no longer needed to keep their children safe.

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Mayada Mannan-Brake, a mother of two in Washington, D.C., said she advised her teenage son to stay away from protests.
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Trump Administration Will Take Control of Union Station in D.C., Duffy Says

Par :Karoun Demirjian
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that his department, which owns Union Station, will assume control of the train hub from the nonprofit that has been controlling it.

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National Guard members outside Washington’s Union Station earlier in August.
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Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

Par :Alan Feuer · Devlin Barrett and William K. Rashbaum
It was a sharp rebuke to the prosecutors who were assigned to bring charges against those arrested after President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents to Washington.

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Sean C. Dunn, left, who was later arrested, interacting with Border Patrol and F.B.I. agents in Washington this month.
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Trump Calls for Death Penalty in All D.C. Murder Cases

Par :Chris Cameron
It is unclear how Mr. Trump would carry out his directive. The Supreme Court ruled that mandatory death sentences were unconstitutional nearly half a century ago.

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President Trump speaking during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
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State Department Agents Join Trump’s Deployment in D.C.

Par :Edward Wong
The Diplomatic Security Service traditionally focused on protecting diplomats, helping secure overseas missions and managing background checks. Now it is doing beat-cop work.

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A Diplomatic Security Service agent patrolling the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington along with F.B.I. agents this month.
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State Department Agents Join Trump’s Deployment in D.C.

Par :Edward Wong
The Diplomatic Security Service traditionally focused on protecting diplomats, helping secure overseas missions and managing background checks. Now it is doing beat-cop work.

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A Diplomatic Security Service agent patrolling the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington along with F.B.I. agents this month.
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Crime Gone in a Week? The Politics Behind Trump’s Federal Crackdown.

Par :Luke Broadwater
President Trump is using crime as a political weapon, proclaiming quick-fix solutions to deeply rooted challenges in cities led by Democrats.

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President Trump visiting law enforcement officers and members of the National Guard last week who are patrolling the streets of Washington.
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Prosecutors Fail 3 Times to Charge Woman With Assault of F.B.I. Agent in D.C.

Par :Alan Feuer and Minho Kim
It is highly unusual for prosecutors to fail even once to obtain an indictment from a grand jury given the way the process is stacked in favor of the government.

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In a court filing, prosecutors in Sidney Lori Reid’s case acknowledged the extraordinary: that they had failed three times to secure an indictment.
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Trump Enlists More Agencies in His Crackdown on Washington, D.C.

Par :Karoun Demirjian
The president ordered the federal transportation and housing departments to examine whether city officials and some landlords are following public safety rules.

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development office building in Washington.
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