Even then, DC didn’t have a democratically elected local government. So, in 1974, Congress passed the DC Home Rule Act, which ...

Tenn., plans to introduce a resolution to remove the 30-day limit on President Donald Trump's control of Washington D.C.'s ...

Congressional Republicans are ramping up a wide range of plans and proposals that seek to extend federal control over D.C. police and the District’s sentencing guidelines.

Fear and confusion are spreading within Washington, DC’s homeless population at the start of President Donald Trump’s ...

Then-Sen. Joe Biden described avoiding red traffic signals in Washington, D.C., due to carjackers while advocating for his crime bill on the Senate floor.

Analysts say they see “a weird degree” of federal involvement in the day-to-day criminal justice apparatus of the District of ...

Rep. Jamie Raskin introduced a joint resolution that would terminate emergency federal control of the Metropolitan Police ...

FBI Director Kash Patel said early Friday that agents and the agency’s partner made 18 more arrests in Washington, D.C. overnight, bringing the total to 120 since President Trump announced ...

A band of Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation to thwart President Trump’s takeover of the Washington, D.C., police ...

District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit saying Trump is going beyond his legal power over the ...

The White House says 60 people suspected of being in the US illegally are among those caught in the federal dragnet.

The White House this week took control of D.C. police as part of a crime crackdown, an unprecedented step which city ...