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FBI Director Kash Patel backs Trump’s DC police takeover: ‘When you let good cops be cops, they deliver’
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FBI Director Kash Patel endorsed President Donald Trump’s plans to take over the Metropolitan Police Department to tackle crime in Washington D.C., amid heavy criticism from Democrats and local officials who say the move is part of a power grab.
Patel was seen Monday afternoon inside a command post for the first night of the temporary takeover in a show of support for law enforcement.
«Proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with the men and women who keep our nation’s capital safe,» Patel said in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital. «When you let good cops be cops, give them the tools they need, and back them every step of the way, they deliver – every time.»
In photos exclusively provided to Fox News Digital, Patel can be seen speaking Monday to FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel wearing protective vests at a command center at a U.S. Park Police station.
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FBI Director Kash Patel with FBI agents in Washington, D.C. on August 11 outside the Park Police Station, the command center for the Trump administration’s new crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital. (Courtesy: FBI, exclusively provided to Fox News Digital)
On Monday, Trump said he would federalize the police department and place it under the authority of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in an effort to address crime. He also said he was activating approximately 800 National Guard troops to «reestablish law, order and public safety» in the capital.
Washington D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser called the move «unsettling and unprecedented.»
«While this action today is unsettling and unprecedented, I can’t say that given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we’re totally surprised,» Bowser said during a news conference. «I can say to D.C. residents that we will continue to operate our government in a way that makes you proud.»
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The District of Columbia Home Rule Act allows Trump to place the city’s police department under federal control for up to 30 days. Bowser noted that granting D.C. statehood, an issue local officials have repeatedly advocated for, could have prevented the takeover.
«If people are concerned about the president being able to move the National Guard into our city, the time to do that would have been when the Congress had a bill that it could have given control of the D.C. National Guard to D.C.,» she said. «So there are things that, when a city is not a state, and not fully autonomous, and doesn’t have senators, that the federal government can do.»
FBI Director Kash Patel with FBI agents in Washington, D.C. as the Trump administration prepares to take over D.C. police. (Courtesy: FBI, exclusively provided to Fox News Digital)
Other Democrats heavily criticized the Trump administration for the move.
«If President Trump wants to help make Chicago safer, he can start by releasing the funds for anti-violence programs that have been critical to our work to drive down crime and violence,» the office of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said. «Sending in the national guard would only serve to destabilize our city and undermine our public safety efforts.»
The Washington, D.C. City Council called the temporary takeover a «manufactured intrusion on local authority.»
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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington as from left, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, look on. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
«Violent crime in the District is at the lowest rates we’ve seen in 30 years. Federalizing the Metropolitan Police Department is unwarranted because there is no Federal emergency,» the council said in a joint statement. «Further, the National Guard has no public safety training or knowledge of local laws. The Guard’s role does not include investigating or solving crimes in the District. Calling out the National Guard is an unnecessary deployment with no real mission.»
The National Capital Region Delegation, a body comprised of several House Democratic lawmakers, accused Trump of personally inciting crime in the capital, referring to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol building.
FBI Director Kash Patel spoke with FBI agents as the Trump administration federalizes the Metropolitan Police Department. (Courtesy: FBI, exclusively provided to Fox News Digital)
«Trump’s ‘temporary’ takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department is not intended to prevent crime, it is a soft launch of authoritarianism,» the group said in a statement. «Trump has a longstanding pattern of seeking showy displays of power. As he has shown repeatedly, Trump is working to serve himself and is not concerned with keeping American families safe in cities and towns across our country.»
«The President’s announcement this morning is an unserious and unacceptable publicity stunt,» they added. «If he wants to reduce crime in the District of Columbia, he should focus on getting his Republican allies in Congress to restore the funding they arbitrarily stripped out of the city’s budget, which risks cuts to law enforcement and other public safety measures.»
FBI Director Kash Patel with FBI agents in Washington, D.C. on August 11 outside the Park Police Station, the command center for the Trump administration’s new crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital. (Courtesy: FBI, exclusively provided to Fox News Digital)
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Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers union, called Trump’s announcement a «gross overreach, disconnected from actual conditions on the ground.»
«So, we have to ask: Will the president’s heavy-handed show of force make the average D.C. resident feel safer? Will it create jobs for working people and bring patrons back to downtown businesses?» she said. «Will it provide young people a pathway to jobs, skills or other activities that keep them off the streets?»
FBI Director Kash Patel met with agents before the DC police takeover. (Courtesy: FBI, exclusively provided to Fox News Digital)
«The answer to those questions is ‘no,’ she added. «That’s why this move is yet another crass spectacle from a president who cares more about targeting, intimidating and playing king than the safety of D.C. and its residents.»
Trump’s opponents have cited crime statistics showing crime in Washington is on the decline. Crime in Washington is down 26% this year compared to the same timeframe in 2024, according to the MPD. Assaults with a dangerous weapon are down 20%, and homicides are down by 12%, according to police data. In January, the Justice Department said violent crime in 2024 in the district was down 35% from 2023, the lowest it has been in over 30 years.
However, Trump disagrees.
Metropolitan Police Department data shows that while the homicide rate is falling, the last five years saw the greatest number of murders since 2008.
«The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on Earth, much higher,» Trump said Monday. «This is much higher. The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years, and the number of carjackings has more than tripled. Murders in 2023 reached the highest rate, probably ever. They say 25 years, but they don’t know what that means because it just goes back 25 years can’t be worse.»
Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
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El dictador Miguel Díaz-Canel afirmó que Cuba tiene la “capacidad y disposición para dialogar con el gobierno de Estados Unidos”
El dictador cubano Miguel Díaz-Canel afirmó que Cuba tiene la “capacidad y disposición para dialogar con el gobierno de Estados Unidos”, pero sostuvo que cualquier conversación debe darse sin presiones y en condiciones de igualdad y respeto.
Las declaraciones se produjeron durante un discurso transmitido por la televisión estatal, en un contexto de presión económica de Washington sobre la isla tras el corte de los suministros petroleros desde Venezuela, histórico sostén del régimen cubano.
“Hemos dicho que tenemos capacidad y disposición para dialogar con el gobierno de Estados Unidos”, expresó Díaz-Canel en su mensaje televisado.
El líder del régimen cubano remarcó que cualquier proceso de diálogo debe excluir presiones externas. “El diálogo no puede ser bajo presiones”, afirmó, y agregó que “el diálogo tiene que ser en condiciones de igualdad, de respeto”.
Durante su intervención, Díaz-Canel también señaló que el régimen cubano denunciará cualquier intento de condicionar las conversaciones. “Y todo eso lo vamos a denunciar. Y sin miedo”, expresó.
“Nosotros sí tenemos la convicción de que nosotros tenemos que salir de nuestros problemas por nosotros mismos, con nuestro talento y con el coraje de los cubanos”, afirmó.
Horas antes del discurso de Díaz-Canel, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, confirmó que su administración inició negociaciones con los altos mandos del régimen cubano y afirmó que confía en alcanzar un acuerdo.
“Estamos hablando con las más altas esferas de Cuba. Veamos qué pasa”, declaró el presidente estadounidense. “Creo que vamos a llegar a un acuerdo con Cuba”, agregó.
Las declaraciones del mandatario estadounidense se produjeron tras la captura del dictador narco Nicolás Maduro por fuerzas estadounidenses y el corte efectivo de los suministros petroleros desde Venezuela, principal sostén histórico del régimen cubano.
Trump enfatizó en reiteradas oportunidades que Cuba “no podrá sobrevivir” sin ese apoyo y la calificó como una “nación fallida” al borde del colapso.
La noche del sábado, el presidente estadounidense respondió a las advertencias de la presidenta mexicana Claudia Sheinbaum, quien señaló que cortar el suministro de crudo a Cuba provocaría una crisis humanitaria.
“No tiene por qué haber una crisis humanitaria. Creo que probablemente vendrán a nosotros y querrían hacer un trato. Así que Cuba será libre nuevamente. Vendrán a nosotros y harán un trato”, dijo Trump.
En ese mismo contexto, circularon informaciones no confirmadas que indicaron que una delegación cubana, encabezada por el general Alejandro Castro Espín, habría mantenido reuniones en México con un alto funcionario de la Agencia Central de Inteligencia (CIA).
Según esas versiones, el objetivo de los encuentros habría sido explorar una salida negociada a la actual crisis bilateral y gestionar el eventual desbloqueo de 133 millones de dólares depositados en una cuenta bancaria vinculada a remesas de emigrantes cubanos. La delegación buscaría utilizar esos fondos para la compra de combustible.
“Están hablando de todo”, señaló una fuente consultada sobre el alcance de las conversaciones.
Entretanto, la Oficina de Asuntos del Hemisferio Occidental del Departamento de Estado exigió al régimen cubano cesar inmediatamente sus acciones represivas.
“El régimen ilegítimo cubano debe cesar inmediatamente sus actos represivos de mandar a individuos para interferir en la labor diplomática del Encargado de Negocios Hammer”, señaló el organismo en su cuenta de X.
“Nuestros diplomáticos continuarán reuniéndose con el pueblo cubano, a pesar de las tácticas fallidas de intimidación del régimen”, añadió la Oficina.
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Russia kills 12 Ukrainian miners in deadly bus attack hours after peace talks postponed
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A Russian drone strike hit a bus carrying miners in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Sunday, killing at least 12 people.
Ukrainian emergency services later reported the death toll had risen to 15 in one of the deadliest single attacks on energy workers since the start of the war.
The attack Sunday came a few hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a new round of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia had been postponed.
A spokesperson for DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy firm, which employed the workers, told Fox News Digital that drones had targeted the bus as it traveled «roughly 40 miles from the front line in central and eastern Ukraine.»
The DTEK spokesperson also described the incident as a «terrorist attack on civilian infrastructure.»
«This strike was a targeted terrorist attack against civilians and another crime by Russia against critical infrastructure,» the spokesperson added.
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Russian drone strike killed at least 12 Ukrainian coal miners and injured seven others when it hit a civilian bus in Dnipropetrovsk region. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk region)
The bus was transporting miners after the end of their shift when it was hit by a Russian drone, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine also confirmed.
At least seven workers were injured, and a fire sparked by the impact was later extinguished by emergency crews.
«The epicenter of one of the attacks was a company bus transporting miners from the enterprise after a shift in the Dnipropetrovsk region,» the company also said in a statement.
Zelenskyy condemned the strike late Sunday, calling it another deliberate attack on civilians.
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Russian drone strike killed at least 12 Ukrainian coal miners and injured seven others when it hit a civilian bus in Dnipropetrovsk region. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk region)
Earlier in the day, he announced that the next round of trilateral talks involving Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. would now take place Feb. 4-5 in Abu Dhabi, after originally being expected for Sunday.
«Ukraine is ready for a substantive discussion, and we are interested in ensuring that the outcome brings us closer to a real and dignified end to the war,» Zelenskyy said on X, adding that the delay had been agreed to by all sides.
The delay followed a surprise meeting Saturday in Florida between Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy, and Kirill Dmitriev, the Kremlin’s special envoy and head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund.
The talks in Abu Dhabi are now expected to include representatives from Ukraine, Russia and the U.S., according to the Associated Press.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have both met separately with President Donald Trump. Despite a peace deal agreement being close, territorial disputes remain, Zelenskyy said. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP; Christian Bruna/Getty)
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy warned Russia is stepping up its aerial campaign against civilian and logistical targets.
«Over the past week, Russia has used more than 980 attack drones, nearly 1,100 guided aerial bombs, and two missiles against Ukraine,» he wrote on X on Sunday. «We are recording Russian attempts to destroy logistics and connectivity between cities and communities.»
In a statement, DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko also explained the bus attack marked the company’s «single largest loss [of] life of DTEK employees since Russia’s full-scale invasion.»
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«We can already say with certainty that this was an unprovoked terrorist attack on a purely civilian target, for which there can be no justification,» Timchenko said.
The attack marked «one of the darkest days in our history,» he added. «DTEK teams are working with emergency services on the ground in Dnipropetrovsk region to ensure the injured, and families who have lost loved ones, get all the care and support they need. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten,» he added.
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