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As the midterms approach, some of the president’s foes are working to ensure his aggressive approach to executive power doesn’t outlast him.

As of 9am Friday, there was one homicide in D.C. this week. To date this year, D.C. has reported a total of 72* homicides this year. Last year, during the same time period, we had 107 homicides, and in the surge year of 2023, there were 212 homicides during that same time period. Other crime categories bounced around a bit, with no real strong shifts.

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DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.