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Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Senate Republicans abruptly left Washington on Thursday without voting on a roughly $70 billion US bill …

Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staff members in ​Washington, last year was indicted on …

U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations in a blistering late-night, anti-immigrant screed posted to social media. The extended rant came in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard members who were deployed to patrol Washington, D.C., under Trump’s orders on Wednesday. A …

The Donald Trump administration, stepping up its crackdown on policing in the U.S. capital, has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to be Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” with all the powers of the police chief — a significant move that the D.C. attorney general said was unlawful. U.S. …

14 hours ago News Duration 6:16 Donald Whitehead, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, says the deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., ‘undermines’ the evidence-based work that has been done, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday he would deploy the guard and take over …

The new picture of law enforcement in the U.S. capital began taking shape Tuesday as some of the 800 U.S. National Guard members deployed by the Trump administration began arriving. The city’s police and federal officials, projecting co-operation, took the first steps in an uneasy partnership to reduce crime in what …

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to put Washington, D.C., under full federal control to reduce crime, even as city officials stressed crime is already falling. On Monday, Trump announced two main fronts in that response from his administration: the federalization of the city’s police force as well as …

Two Israeli embassy staffers, a young couple about to be engaged, were killed by a lone gunman as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, and a suspect is in custody, officials said. The two were shot and killed in the area of 3rd …

Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds has said some unkind things about Canada. But when the Trump ally welcomed Canadian Ambassador Kirsten Hillman into his Capitol Hill office, it started out all smiles. “I hear that you have just announced that you’re running for governor,” Hillman enthused. “Congratulations!” Donalds — who has …

Progressive Conservative Party Leader Doug Ford is making an unusual campaign stop in Washington D.C. Tuesday, as Bonnie Crombie, Marit Stiles and Mike Schreiner continue on the hustings in Ontario. Ford headed south to Washington D.C. for meetings in the United States capital on Tuesday, a move that has been …