President Donald Trump long had a playbook for deploying the National Guard in D.C. and a week ago had new motivation after a former aide was hurt in an attempted carjacking.

The president is holding a news conference Monday morning to discuss efforts to fight crime and clean up the nation's capital ...

Cameron Kasky and Tim Miller dissect the week's top news, from the mugging of "Big Balls" (Edward Coristine) in D.C.

Two teens charged for their alleged involvement in an attack on DOGE staffer Edward Coristine were ordered by a D.C. judge to stay in youth custody.

As The Washington Post documented in advance of Trump’s declaration of what looks a lot like martial law within the District ...

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President Trump on Monday announced he was taking federal control of D.C.’s police department and deploying the National Guard in the city in an attempt to fight crime. “Our capital city has been ...

The District of Columbia's attorney general is criticizing President Donald Trump's move to place the city's police department under federal control and activate 800 members of the National Guard to ...

President Donald Trump announced the federal takeover of Washington D.C.'s police force during a Monday press conference.

The president invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act on Monday, giving him emergency authority over ...

The Trump administration will send the FBI on night patrols in the nation’s capital in the wake of President Trump ...