Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith struck a conciliatory tone amid a ...

The president had announced the summit, which will take place in Alaska, in a Truth Social post Friday. “The highly ...

President Donald Trump said he is deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and taking control of the Metropolitan Police Department.

While Republicans claim violent crime is up in the nation’s capitol city, statistics from the Metro Police Department and the ...

Though the Trump administration claims violence in the capital is getting worse, police statistics show violent crime has ...

The DC National Guard will be deployed, and the president said he might send in other military forces to help.

President Trump said he was declaring a public safety emergency, taking over the DC police and calling in National Guard ...

Promising a sweeping crackdown on crime and homelessness in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump has vowed to place the D.C. police department “under direct federal order” and deploy the National ...

President Donald Trump announced he was taking “historic action to rescue our nation's capital" by officially invoking ...

And in April, Trump declared “foreign trade and economic practices have created a national emergency,” citing the ...

This will show Congress that running D.C. is not something they want to take on,” says D.C. shadow senator Ankit Jain.

President Trump held a news conference Monday to discuss crime in Washington, D.C., after days of railing about the nation’s capital being “out of control.” ...