President Trump directed federal law enforcement agencies to increase their presence in Washington DC last week.

President Donald Trump announced he was taking “historic action to rescue our nation's capital" by officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, declaring a public ...

Trump likens DC to ‘worst places on Earth’ as military takes over capital: ‘Wild youth, maniacs and homeless’ - Crime has fallen in Washington over the last two years but Trump has long wanted to take ...

President Donald Trump on Monday declared a “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C., ahead of an announcement that he’s deploying an as-yet-undetermined number of National Guard troops to help patrol ...

President Donald Trump said Monday he’s placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to make the nation’s capital safer. Trump has promised ...

President Trump's decision to deploy National Guard troops to D.C. is seen as a calculated move to weaponize fear and distort facts, targeting majority-Black cities.

US President Donald Trump said Monday he will deploy military and federal law enforcement in Washington as he seeks to curb violent crime in the nation's capital.

"It's a situation of complete and total lawlessness," President Donald Trump said about Washington, D.C., while announcing ...

President Donald Trump is holding a news conference Monday to reveal plans he's said "will, essentially, stop violent crime ...

Washington is a district, not a state, so it doesn't have a governor. For most of it's history it didn't have control over its own budget or affairs. Instead, U.S. Congress and the president both play ...