President Trump's takeover of Washington, D.C.'s metro police department and deployment of its National Guard is controversial yet possible under the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973.

A massive portrait of Donald Trump was draped over the Department of Labor building in Washington, D.C., on Monday. The ...

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It’s that DC’s government has proven incapable of even the most basic level of public administration. Blame Congress.

The moves came as protesters pushed back on federal law enforcement and National Guard troops fanning out in the heavily ...

When President Donald Trump declared a federal takeover of Washington, DC’s law enforcement this week, he framed it as an emergency order to crack down on crime and disorder. But threaded through his ...

President Trump and his allies have berated Washington, D.C., officials. Yet the federal government has often made it harder for those officials to manage the capital.

The National Guard started ramping up its presence in Washington on Thursday, deploying troops to the National Mall and Metro ...

From mutinies to modernity, the District of Columbia's unique constitutional status lets Congress – and now President Trump – ...

And in the late 1980s and 1990s, D.C. claimed the title of “murder capital” of the U.S. as homicide rates hit record highs ...