The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and agreed to leave the Washington, D.C., police chief in control of the department, while Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a new memo, directed the District’s police to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement regardless of any city law.

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The order from Bondi came after officials in the nation’s capital sued Friday to block President Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington police .

The night before, his administration had escalated its intervention into the city’s law enforcement by naming a federal official as the new emergency head of the department , essentially placing the police fo

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