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President Donald Trump on Monday placed the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deployed 800 National Guard troops in the capital city to address what he claimed was out-of-control crime there.

It is the first time that a president has federalized the Metropolitan Police Department.

Trump's move drew fierce condemnation from local officials, who noted that official statistics show crime in D.C. is on the decline. »

The EU has received a third 1.6-billion-euro ($1.9 billion) tranche in windfall profits from frozen Russian central bank assets and will allocate 95% of it, over 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion), to repay Ukraine’s loans.

Within the ERA initiative, Ukraine is expected to get $50 billion in loans that will be repaid using future profits from frozen Russian assets.

The EU received 1.6 billion euros ($1.9 billion) in windfall profits on Aug. 8 from frozen Russian central bank assets held in the bloc's central securities depositories, according to European Pravda. »

Musk bragged that more than 34 million images were generated within a day of launching operations.

“AI-generated content often involves user inputs, but the actual content is, as the term indicates, generated by AI.”

If you’re online in 2025, nothing is about sex, including sex — which, per usual, is about power. »

“The Crime Numbers get worse, and the City only gets dirtier and less attractive,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

In reality, the crime rate in the District of Columbia has been falling for two years and is now as low as it has been in decades.

Trump, though, cited the 2023 crime rate as he held up charts comparing Washington’s crime rates to that of major cities around the world. »