The FBI includes a broader range of assaults in its violent crime data for D.C. based on what local police provide to the bureau. Consequently, the FBI’s data show that the number of violent offenses ...

President Donald Trump said Monday he’s taking over Washington’s police department and activating 800 members of the National ...

President Donald Trump has ordered 800 National Guard members to help law enforcement fight crime in Washington.

The White House increased the presence of federal law enforcement in Washington over the weekend, deploying 450 officers ...

President Trump promised a weekend crackdown on Washington, D.C.'s homeless population and criminals. Trump activated federal ...

There is a 24-year gap between President Donald Trump, 79, and First Lady Melania Trump, 55. White House Press Secretary ...

President Donald Trump, justifying his temporary federal takeover of policing in the nation’s capital, claimed at a ...

Trump said he is invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to deploy members of the National Guard.

The Metropolitan Police along with federal agencies tasked with helping curb crime in the nation’s capital are scrambling to figure out roles and strategy following President Donald Trump’s decision ...

A top former Trump White House national security official is warning that the President’s federalization of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police and deployment of the National Guard and other ...

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 ...