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The Washington, D.C., government settled two lawsuits on Monday over mass arrests made during former President Trump D.C. and the organizations that brought the lawsuits filed court papers stating that the city government will pay $1.6 million to settle both cases, according to a press release from the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) D.C. chapter. The two lawsuits claimed that more than 200 protesters, many of whom did not violate any laws, were rounded up and detained by officers after a small number of demonstrators vandalized and damaged property. ADVERTISEMENT According to the A...

Ivanka Trump took the hot seat, Donald Trump Jr. sat for a deposition for D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine’s (D) ongoing investigation into their father’s scandal-beset 2017 inauguration committee. That revelation surfaced in court papers alleging witnesses have given “unclear and contradictory accounts” about the committee paying more than $49,000 on hotel rooms for Trump Jr.’s college friend. Racine sued former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, the Trump Organization and Trump International Hotel a little more than a year ago, accusing the non-profit of coordina...

Presidential inaugurations are magnets for potential threats, from nuclear attacks to civil disobedience.

Inaugurations are expensive events, with the estimates for recent inauguration festivities sitting at around $200 million, The New York Times reported. The costs to put on the inaugural events are...