President Donald Trump's administration announced Wednesday it is expanding a controversial deployment of federal agents to three more US cities -- Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee -- to tackle a spike in crime. In a statement announcing the move, Attorney General Bill Barr said all three Democratic-run cities "have seen disturbing increases in violent crime, particularly homicides." Trump's administration previously ordered a "surge" of federal agents into Chicago and Albuquerque, compounding public anger at the deployment of federal troops to Portland, where they have clashed with demonstrators for several weeks. chp/ec/jm