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After a judge threatened to block an order federalizing Washington’s police, the Justice Department issued a new directive leaving the city’s police chief in charge, for now.

LaToya Cantrell has been under a corruption investigation that has cast a shadow over her final term as mayor. The specific charges were not immediately clear.

President Trump boarded Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Friday. The leaders of the United States and Russia are set to hold talks at an American military …

The leaders of the United States and Russia will hold talks at an American military base in Alaska and are expected to hold a news conference afterward.

The Trump administration had asked states to certify that their schools did not practice “illegal D.E.I.” and threatened to cut off billions of dollars from schools that did not comply.

Chief Pamela A. Smith’s order effectively serves as a carve-out to how the department enforces a broader ban that prohibits the local police from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.

The Army expects up to 200 soldiers out on the capital’s streets within the next few days at any given time in support of federal law enforcement.

The Treasury secretary has been slow to divest assets, including farmland, that he pledged to shed.