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By Campbell Robertson, Alexandra Ostasiewicz and Nikolay Nikolov•August 12, 2025
President Trump said that he was temporarily taking control of the Washington, D.C., police department and deploying 800 National Guard troops. Campbell Robertson, a reporter for the National desk, describes what to know about the takeover.
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