The nation’s capital is "becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness," President Donald Trump said at an Aug. 11 ...

Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb says Metropolitan Police Department officers must follow local policies that ...

Police statistics show steep declines in violent crime even as Trump invoked emergency powers over the department ...

President Donald Trump has taken the extraordinary step of placing Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department un ...

Anand Giridharadas said this morning on MSNBC that he is less worried about street crime in Washington D.C. than he is about ...

Still unclear as the week unfolds: how visible and aggressive the federal presence in Washington would be, how it could play ...

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott accused President Trump of promoting "racist viewpoints" after Trump suggested expanding his ...

A man was shot and killed in Washington D.C.'s Logan Circle neighborhood Monday night, just hours after President Trump ...

The statute does not require evidence or congressional approval — only a presidential declaration of emergency.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to announce the deployment of the National Guard to patrol D.C. streets at a ...

After a decade of threatening to take over the deeply Democratic District of Columbia, President Donald Trump on Monday announced he would exert more federal control over the ...

President declares national crime emergency in Washington, D.C., deploying National Guard and federalizing police department.