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‘Clever and a little bit offensive’: Inside the White House’s norm-breaking social media strategy

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Official White House social media posts these days can more closely resemble troll-ish meme accounts than a sober dissemination of information from the United States’ highest political office. President Donald Trump’s White House likes it that way. Accounts associated with the administration have touted Trump’s landmark policy law using

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Five years after a tragic DC 911 misfire, America’s emergency dispatch systems are still overwhelmed and underfunded

By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — Billie Shepperd was planning her daughter Sheila’s 60th birthday party in June 2020 when the phone rang. She had been imagining family members traveling from Washington, DC, to celebrate at the beach with crab legs and potato salad, when she picked up to hear Maria Shepperd, her granddaughter and

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Members of the National Guard walk in formation in Los Angeles on June 14.

Officials have been planning for weeks to send National Guard to Chicago as Trump seeks to expand crime crackdown

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has been planning for weeks to send the National Guard to Chicago, two officials told CNN, as President Donald Trump looks to expand his anti-crime agenda and crackdown on immigration in major cities across the United States. It is not yet clear how many

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As Trump administration unleashes federal show of force in DC, other US cities on president’s radar push back

By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — As the Trump administration escalates its deployment of troops in the nation’s capital and vows similar moves elsewhere, leaders of largely Democratic cities across the country are pushing back. From Boston to Los Angeles, President Donald Trump’s portrayal of the District of Columbia as a lawless wasteland to justify

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