Several DC lawmakers slammed Trump's latest plan to combat crime in the nation's capital, while the police union expressed ...

President Donald Trump said Monday he’s placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying ...

Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser called for statehood for the District of Columbia Monday after President Donald Trump ...

Trump has promised new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, prompting the city’s mayor to voice concerns ...

President Donald Trump can more easily take over the district's police department than he can suspend its home rule, which requires congressional action.

Section 740 of the Home Rule Act allows for the president to take over Washington's Metropolitan Police Department for 48 ...

The Metropolitan Police along with federal agencies tasked with helping curb crime in the nation’s capital are scrambling to ...

Trump announced that he is invoking Section 740 of the DC Home Rule Act to federalize the D.C. police department. What is it?

Trump has long focused on crime and cleanliness in DC and other cities, sparring periodically with Democratic mayors during his first term over law enforcement. In the summer of 2020, he weighed a ...

President Trump said Monday that he is deploying members of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and that the federal ...

DC mayor Muriel Bowser said that while the announcement by Donald Trump to federalize the Capitol police was “unsettling and unprecedented” she was “not totally surprised” by it.“My message to ...