President Donald Trump said he will join law enforcement on the streets of Washington, DC, on Aug. 21 amid his federal takeover of DC

President Donald Trump announced Friday the 2026 World Cup draw will take place on December 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC., combining the world’s biggest soccer tournament with the institution he has sought to overhaul.

National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., will now carry weapons for personal protection and are allowed to carry out law enforcement duties, defense officials said.

House and Senate Democrats, along with Washington's non-voting delegates in both chambers, argued that had Washington D.C. been a state, the president would not have been able to federalize the police force.

President Trump’s federal “crime emergency” takeover in Washington, D.C., has led to the removal of dozens of homeless encampments, sparking alarm from advocates who say the crackdown destroys

Federal prosecutors in the nation’s capital will no longer bring felony charges against people for possessing rifles or shotguns in the District of Columbia.

D.C. United will host Inter Miami CF at Audi Field, hoping to put their recent struggles behind them. The Black-and-Red are far from their best form and currently sit at the bottom of the Eastern Conference.

In the first week after Trump’s DC police takeover, the city saw a moderate drop in reported crime — and a far larger surge in arrests of immigrants, a CNN analysis found.