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Local officials abolished executions more than 40 years ago, teeing up yet another political and legal fight

The Republican leader had pledged to ‘restore’ the death penalty upon returning to the White House for a second term.

‘A high school student would know this was an illegal search,’ the judge slammed

Despite Trump’s claims, almost everyone disapproves of Trump’s takeover of the police department

National Guard troops in D.C.? For what exactly?

Turning the National Guard into a nationwide police force betrays the Founders’ vision and erodes the freedoms that make the U.S. exceptional.

‘The president is exaggerating again,’ says reporter Daniel Day after Trump’s raft of unfounded claims about crime in the nation’s capital

"To the American people watching, this is what calling out a failed system looks like."

DC fans have mixed feelings about Peacemaker's new title sequence

Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is warning that her prediction of a militarized America under President Donald Trump's second term has come true as National Guard troops patrol U.S. cities under the president's new "law and order" push.

Following a public exchange with Maryland Governor Wes Moore, President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy troops to Baltimore to combat what he calls a crime crisis. The president’s comments came after Governor Moore invited him to join a safety walk in the city, an invitation the president described as…