Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks as Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela A. Smith listens during a news ...

President Trump said he would take over Washington, D.C.’s police force and deploy National Guard troops to fight crime and ...

As National Guard troops deploy across her city as part of President Donald Trump's efforts to clamp down on crime, D.C.

President Trump and his allies have berated Washington, D.C., officials. Yet the federal government has often made it harder ...

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser is voicing concerns about the president's potential use of the National Guard to patrol ...

Huge chunks of the capital are under the federal government’s control. Local officials feel like their hands are tied when it ...

P resident Donald Trump became the first president to invoke the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to take temporary control over law enforcement in Washington, D.C., citing high crime levels that ...

When Trump announced his law enforcement actions in D.C., he also singled out a slew of other Democratic cities. The mayors ...

The White House now says more arrests are being made and homeless people are being forced to remove their tents from public ...

While DC becomes a staging ground, Republican-led jurisdictions with objectively higher crime rates remain untouched.