Omar Wasow was studying race and politics at Stanford University when on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted the police officers ...

The deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., affects all Americans, even Mainers. Washington is our seat of government — and like our nation, it is meant to be governed by citizens and ...

Legal experts say when National Guard members are deployed into what could be volatile situations with citizens, they could ...

President Trump declared a crime emergency in D.C., invoking the Home Rule Act and deploying the National Guard to address rising crime. He's taking federal control of the Metropolitan Police ...

District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit saying Trump is going beyond his legal power over the ...

After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a national emergency would let him bypass the law’s limits.

Back in early spring, Trump’s efforts upended the U.S. Institute of Peace, among other institutions and departments. On ...

The showdown in Washington is the latest attempt by Trump to test the boundaries of his legal authority to carry out his ...

President Donald Trump 's face-to-face high-stakes summit with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday could determine ...

Former police officers and residents discuss the federal takeover and crime in D.C.

Mayor Muriel Bowser is in Martha's Vineyard Thursday to pick up her daughter from camp, and is expected to return to the ...