August 14, 2025 - Page 2

Trump Federalizes D.C. Police, Sparks Mixed Local Reactions

By Nnamdi Egwuonwu, Gary Grumbach and Emilie Plesset Steps away from a YMCA, popular bakery and local pharmacy, a group of law enforcement officers across several agencies turned a busy intersection in a mixed residential-commercial area of Washington, D.C., into a police checkpoint Wednesday night as part of President Donald Trump’s directive to crack down on crime in the nation’s

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DOJ Alleges GWU Ignored Antisemitism on Campus

By Kimmy Yam The Justice Department accused George Washington University on Tuesday of violating civil rights law by “acting deliberately indifferent” to instances of antisemitism on campus. In a letter to the Washington, D.C., university following an investigation, the DOJ said that Jewish and Israeli students and faculty were subjected to a hostile environment that was

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