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 ...

To take control of the police force of Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump on Monday invoked part of the law that has given the nation’s capital a greater degree of self-governance over the past ...

President Donald Trump just invoked a decades-old law in a bid to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. In an Aug. 11 press conference, he said he was employing Section 740 of the District of ...

President Donald Trump invoked a decades-old law to federalize Washington, D.C.’s police department. Here is what to know. Photo from the White House President Donald Trump just invoked a decades-old ...