President Donald Trump’s federal seizure of Washington, D.C.’s police force and deployment of the National Guard is being sold as a crusade against “crime, bloodshed and bedlam.” In truth ...

D.C. to see more federal troops as Trump pushes to extend emergency Bowser condemned Trump’s rhetoric but said she welcomed the federal police resources.

Trump’s decision to invoke a provision of the Home Rule Act allowing him to take temporary control over the Washington police has put the entire US political system—Congress, the courts and ...

Any legislation to extend Trump's control over the police department would likely stall in the Senate, where Democrats can use procedural rules to block most bills.

In a news conference, Trump announced he was taking federal control of the Washington, D.C., police department and deploying the National Guard in the nation’s capital in an effort to crack down ...

Journal Editorial Report: A new executive order cracks down on anti-conservative bias. President Trump took federal control of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department on Monday, pledging to ...

Trump mentioned New York, Baltimore, and Oakland as other cities where he wants to put the police under federal control. “This will go further," he said.

President Trump announced plans Monday to exercise more federal control over Washington, D.C., including by taking control of the city’s police department and sending in National Guard troops ...

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D) slammed President Trump’s move to take control of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department as “political theater,” saying he’s ignoring the ...

President Trump signed two executive orders Monday, formally declaring a “crime emergency” in the District of Columbia and taking direct control of the city’s law enforcement. The orders invoke ...

President Donald Trump announced today he is placing Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, and is deploying the National Guard in the city, insisting the ...