President Donald Trump’s decision to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department in the District of Columbia has Democrats ...

President Trump said he would take over Washington, D.C.’s police force and deploy National Guard troops to fight crime and ...

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday that the Trump administration plans to “work with” the department’s ...

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

The question is whether a Republican judiciary will read the entire law governing Trump’s power over DC, or just the part ...

I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse,” Trump ...

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

President Donald Trump announced Monday he is placing Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to put Washington, D.C., under full federal control to reduce crime.

President invokes Home Rule Act to take control of Metropolitan Police Department, claims capital murder rate exceeds ...

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