Trump Says Chicago and New York Are Next for Federal Crackdown on Crime

President Trump wants to use Washington as a template to target crime in cities around the country.

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Will Museums Fight Back Against Trump?

The president’s attacks on the Smithsonian Institution and other museums have become an effort to redefine why such places exist.

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Hegseth Authorizes Troops in D.C. to Carry Weapons

It remains unclear whether the National Guard soldiers will be armed as they walk through the city.

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See Trump’s Deployment of the National Guard, Other Federal Agents in Washington, D.C.

Times journalists reviewed hundreds of images and videos of law enforcement agents to determine what they have been doing on the ground.

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Trump Says He’ll Join D.C. Patrols on Thursday Night

The president told a conservative radio host’s show that he would go out alongside officers. But the White House has not offered details for the excursion.

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In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo

Using the full power of the federal government, President Trump has promoted a vision of America that challenges the legitimacy of the Black experience.

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Pirro Orders Office to Maximize Criminal Charges on Street Arrests

The instruction amounts to a declaration that the understaffed U.S. attorney’s office will seek to ramp up criminal charges arising from the president’s takeover of law enforcement in the capital.

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Pirro has ordered her office to maximize criminal charges on street arrests.

The instruction amounts to a declaration that the understaffed U.S. attorney’s office will seek to ramp up criminal charges arising from the president’s takeover of law enforcement in the capital.

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In Battle Over D.C. Police, Federal Prosecutors Open Inquiry Into Crime Data

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.

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Pence Welcomes Trump’s D.C. Deployment of the National Guard

Former Vice President Mike Pence said he wished President Trump “would have done more” on Jan. 6, but supported the recent decision to deploy troops to Washington.

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