President Donald Trump thanked police and troops at a Park Police Facility in Washington, D.C. as his Administration continues its effort to crack down on crime and exert control over the nation’s capital.

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

President Donald Trump on Friday announced the U.S. government has secured a 10% stake in struggling Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in a deal completed just a couple weeks after he depicted the company’s CEO as a conflicted leader unfit for the job.

The U.S. government has taken a 10% stake in struggling U.S. chipmaker Intel, President Donald Trump announced in a social media post.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco extended a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from cutting off or conditioning the use of federal funds for so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions. His earlier order protected more than a dozen other cities and counties, including San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.

The order expanded a previous one in April that barred the Trump administration from withholding federal funding to 16 cities and counties over their local laws.

Controversy over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files had dogged the Trump administration for weeks. So as Congress went on their typical August recess, President Donald Trump’s team began discussing ways they could finally get ahead of the story.

President Donald Trump takes reporter questions from the Oval Office about the Epstein files controversy.

Has President Donald Trump survived the latest and most serious firestorm of controversy over the Epstein scandal? Or has the Trump administration’s handling of the release of information concerning the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein,