The development came after Washington, D.C.'s attorney general filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered D.C.'s mayor and police department to accept Terry Cole, the head of the DEA, as the district's emergency police commissioner. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser posted a letter Thursday saying the order is illegal.

As of Friday, it is unclear what General Attorney Pam Bondi's decision to appoint Terry Cole, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, as Washington’s emergency police commissioner means for the Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department,

Angry protesters have set fire to the offices of Serbia’s governing populist party in a western town and clashed with police in the capital Belgrade in another evening of violent protests shaking the

Serbia's police used teargas and crowd control vehicles on Friday evening in Belgrade to disperse anti-government protesters who threw firecrackers and flares at police officers in what is seen as a major escalation of the nine-month-long protests.

After a judge threatened to block an order federalizing Washington’s police, the Justice Department issued a new directive leaving the city’s police chief in charge, for now.