WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hundreds of National Guard soldiers in military fatigues and combat boots mingled with tourists, posed for selfies, and treated themselves to ice cream from food trucks on Thursday along Washington's National Mall,

President Donald Trump took a field trip Thursday to the U.S. Park Police operations facility in Washington, where he addressed about 300 National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officials and praised his military crackdown on crime and immigration in the city.

President Donald Trump said troops were "going to stay here awhile" when he visited law enforcement officials in the capital.

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse has been removed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The latest military firing follows the agency's initial intelligence assessment of US bombings on Iran on 22 June set back Tehran's nuclear programme by just a few months which “angered” US President Donald Trump.

U.S. President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid to prod Moscow and Kyiv closer to peace, announcing he had begun arranging for direct talks between

First he welcomed Putin to Alaska for a cozy meet-up. Then he held talks in D.C. with Ukraine’s Zelensky and several European leaders. The goal was simple; get some kind of peace deal in motion. But not one single concession came out of the Kremlin.

Former Jeffrey Epstein girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell told federal investigators that she never saw President Donald Trump do anything illegal or improper.

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, who is seeking a pardon from Donald Trump, told top Justice Department officials during an interview last month that she never witnessed the president “in any inappropriate setting” with girls introduced to him by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Ghislane Maxwell, an associate of the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, told a top Justice Department official last month that she never saw President Donald Trump in an "inappropriate setting,