The nation’s capital is "becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness," President Donald Trump said at an Aug. 11 ...

Anand Giridharadas said this morning on MSNBC that he is less worried about street crime in Washington D.C. than he is about ...

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

President Donald Trump has taken the extraordinary step of placing Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department un ...

The Republican president's decision fits a pattern of using emergency declarations to rule by executive order.

"They are stealing our democracy and do not plan to give it back. And all of you are silent. The republic is dying, rapidly ...

A man was shot and killed in Washington D.C.'s Logan Circle neighborhood Monday night, just hours after President Trump ...

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

Trump has promised new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, prompting the city’s mayor to voice concerns ...

The mobilization and duration of duty shall remain in effect until I determine that conditions of law and order have been ...

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

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