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

Federal law gives presidents the power to take over Washington’s police force after declaring an emergency, but Donald Trump ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and placing the city’s ...

Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington, D.C., called President Donald ... questions on the balance between local control and ...

But Trump exaggerated or misstated many of the facts surrounding public safety in Washington, where the crime rate has fallen ...

Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser called for statehood for the District of Columbia Monday after President Donald Trump announced measures to address crime in the nation’s capital. Trump announced the ...

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

President Trump is holding a news conference on crime in D.C., though violent crime in the District has been declining, ...

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

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