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Congress overturns D.C. crime bill with President Biden's help

The Senate approved a GOP-led joint resolution that would overrule the Washington, D.C., city council's recent legislation to rewrite the criminal code for the nation's capital.

WEKU

Senate votes to block changes to D.C.'s crime law

D.C. Council members and dozens of statehood activists marched to the Capitol in protest on Wednesday, decrying the intervention.

Axios

15-year-old boy who shot Commanders RB Brian Robinson gets maximum 6-year sentence

A teenager who admitted to shooting Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson was sentenced Wednesday to nearly six years in juvenile detention.

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Senate voting to block DC crime laws, Biden supportive

The Senate is poised to block new District of Columbia crime laws, voting on a rare motion of disapproval as lawmakers in both parties have expressed concern about rising violent crime rates in cities nationwide

The Independent UK

Senate votes to overturn DC criminal code changes - Roll Call

The Senate cleared a measure Wednesday to nullify a controversial D.C. law, sending it to President Joe Biden for his expected signature.

Roll Call

Woman attempts suicide along with three girls in Karnataka's Belagavi DC office

BELAGAVI: The Belagavi DC office witnessed a heart-wrenching incident on the International Women’s Day. A woman attempted suicide along with her three girls by consuming pesticide.

The Times of India

Will Bunch: Joe Biden's pander to Fox News tropes is the worst move of his presidency

It's a rare moment that we can place a time stamp on a U.S. president's worst decision. But in the case of Joe Biden, we can thank politics-by-Twitter for the ability to write definitively that the dumbest move —both governmentally and politically — by our 46th POTUS is the unforced…

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Biden upends politics, precedent in pivot on DC crime law

President Joe Biden’s support of a resolution to block new District of Columbia crime laws has split members of his own party amid rising concerns about crime in the nation’s capital and other cities

The Independent UK

Judge won’t release Northern California Jan. 6 defendant, rejects moving trial from DC

A federal judge on Monday rejected efforts by a Northern California defendant in the Jan. 6 insurrection to have his charges dropped, to have his trial moved from Washington, D.C., to Sacramento and to be released pending trial because his mental state is suffering in jail.

Tribune News Service

US capital withdraws criminal justice reform bill

Move comes as the US Senate was expected to vote down proposed changes to criminal code in Washington, DC.

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As DC backtracks on changes to city's criminal code, Senate vote is moving forward

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer has rejected a plea from the Democratic chairman of the Washington, D.C., Council to cancel a planned vote on a House-passed measure blocking the district’s new criminal code.

Tribune News Service

DC to pull new crime law; impact on Senate vote unclear

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The Independent UK

As city backtracks, Senate vote on DC criminal changes going ahead

Senate Majority Leader Schumer is rejecting an attempt by D.C. officials to avoid a vote to block a new criminal code.

Roll Call

XFL’s D.C. Defenders improve 3-0 on the season

The highest-scoring XFL game of the season featured a fight, and another D.C. Defenders win.

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Apple-TV+ And The MLS Have Proven A Fruitful Partnership

Apple TV + and the MLS spared no expense to make sure all their broadcasts had quality and world is watching, and very impressed

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"Rip roarin' pissed": Biden's D.C. crime stunner strains relations with House Dems

"He is going to have a much harder time asking people to take tough votes after this."

Tribune News Service

White House clarifies what policy statements do, and do not, mean

WASHINGTON — In the days since an upbeat meeting with President Joe Biden at a party retreat in Baltimore, House Democrats have been expressing frustration with the White House over the president’s decision to sign legislation to overturn a rewrite of the local criminal code in Washington, D.C.

Reason

Biden Embraces the Fearmongering, Vows To Squash D.C.'s Mild Criminal Justice Reforms

In rebuking the legislation, the president showed that he may not know what's in it.

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Al Jazeera

Biden won’t veto push to overturn law in US capital. Here’s why

US president angers progressives by saying he will not veto Congress bill to block justice reform in Washington, DC.

The Independent UK

DC conflict reflects wider efforts undermining local control

The expected move next week in Congress to overturn District of Columbia laws dealing with criminal justice and voting has created a political tempest in the nation’s capital, with local activists decrying it as the latest effort to undermine the city’s ability to determine its own future

Salon

Biden backs GOP effort on justice reform

Biden is backing a Republican effort to block D.C. lawmakers from setting their own criminal justice laws

The Independent UK

AOC boasts she was right after Amazon ceases building HQ2 in Washington DC

‘Amazon wanted $3.5bn in benefits from NY to build this thing they’ve stopped building. @AOC was right’

The Independent UK

Family of Shanquella Robinson demand action from DC officials four months after mystery death in Mexico

Four months after the investigation into Shanquella Robinson’s was launched, no arrests have been made.

Roll Call

White House clarifies what policy statements do, and do not, mean - Roll Call

House Democrats are voicing frustration over Biden's decision not to veto legislation that would overturn an updated D.C. criminal code.

Tribune News Service

In a reversal, Biden says he’ll sign Republican DC crime bill

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said he’d sign Republican legislation barring the government in Washington, D.C., from making changes to its own criminal code, reversing his earlier position in a move that will surely anger statehood advocates and others in the heavily Democratic city.

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