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US Politics · District of ColumbiaThe Trump administration, stepping up its crackdown on policing in the nation’s capital, on Thursday named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington’s “emergency police commissioner” with all the powers of the police chief — a significant move that increases national control over the city as part of the federal government’s law-enforcement takeover.See the Story
Bondi names DEA head as DC’s ‘emergency police commissioner,’ but capital leaders push back
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia · MarylandKilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian migrant involved in a lengthy court case, is scheduled to report Monday to the ICE Field Office in Baltimore, where he is expected to be taken into custody and deported to Uganda, according to his attorneys.See the Story
Abrego Garcia to appear at ICE office in Baltimore amid talk of Uganda deportation
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Donald Trump · United StatesPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday said he wants to see the death penalty imposed on every person convicted of murder in D.C., continuing his exertion of control over the capital city with a move that is likely to draw intense political and legal pushback.
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Trump calls for expansion of death penalty in D.C.
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