Tag: Washington D.C.

Melanie Splendora, who has lived in DC since 2011, was supportive of the Trump police takeover. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Trump’s takeover of blue DC met with praise and rage by fed-up residents

Haisten Willis · August 12, 2025 6:51 pm

Former Washington Wizards' guard Javaris Crittenton, center, leaves with his attorneys D.C. Superior Court in Washington on Jan. 25, 2010.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Why DC locals are blaming federal officials for overwhelmed Washington court

Jack Birle · August 12, 2025 6:23 pm

Drug Enforcement Administration head Terry Cole, the interim commissioner of D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department. National Guard troops at the D.C. Armory in Washington, D.C., Aug. 12, 2025. President Donald Trump activated hundreds of National Guard troops and seized control of D.C. police to reduce crime in the district.

National Guard mobilizes in DC for Trump’s police takeover and crime crackdown

Naomi Lim · August 12, 2025 6:11 pm

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins testifies during a House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee budget hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Washington.

VA watchdog finds record level of staffing shortages

Samantha-Jo Roth · August 12, 2025 5:55 pm

Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg listens to a question from the audience during a VoteVets Town Hall, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Buttigieg says Trump federalizing DC police is ‘distraction’ from Epstein files

Asher Notheis · August 12, 2025 5:41 pm

Energy and Environment

Trump administration rejects ‘net-zero’ plan and carbon tax for international shipping

Callie Patteson · August 12, 2025 4:28 pm

President Donald Trump is setting the gears in motion for a significant expansion of America's polar fleet, with U.S. Coast Guard commissioning the USCGC Storis, its first new polar icebreaker in decades.

Trump commissions new Coast Guard icebreaker with aims of boosting Arctic security

Christian Datoc · August 12, 2025 3:58 pm

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, and former President Bill Clinton arrive before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.

Comer confident House subpoena for Clintons’ Epstein testimony will survive legal scrutiny

Emily Hallas · August 12, 2025 3:51 pm

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House.

Homeless must accept treatment or face jail in Trump DC clean-up plan

Gabrielle M. Etzel · August 12, 2025 3:34 pm

This DC neighborhood is as dangerous as Juárez. Others aren’t much better

Robert Schmad · August 12, 2025 2:55 pm

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), accompanied by other members of Congress, speaks during a rally against Elon Musk outside the Treasury Department in Washington.

Maxine Waters says Trump is leading US to ‘civil war’

Jenny Goldsberry · August 12, 2025 2:54 pm

Josh Turek, right, controls the ball as Japan's Tomohiko Oshima tries to stop him during a wheelchair basketball match at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games.

Iowa state Rep. Josh Turek joins crowded Democratic primary to oust Joni Ernst

Samantha-Jo Roth · August 12, 2025 2:37 pm