Public spaces and private ones with permission are usually fair game; if accused of obstruction, backing off is best.

Just 17 percent of residents backed the effort to federalize the city‘s police department and deploy federal law enforcement officers.

Federal troops are patrolling the National Mall and neighborhoods across Washington while President Donald Trump's administration exerts extraordinary power over law enforcement in the nation's capital.

Federal agents who typically investigate drug lords, weapons traffickers or cyber criminals have fanned out across the nation’s capital.

A local GOP chairman is calling for the resignation of Washington Mayor Donald Sadler. Beaufort County Republican Party Chair Carolyn Garris released a statement Monday on the alleged surveillance of Sadler’s November political opponent.

Trump has painted a picture of the U.S. capital as a city gripped by a wave of crime and pervasive homelessness, despite both federal and city crime statistics showing that violent crime has declined precipitously since a spike in 2023.

The showdown in Washington is the latest attempt by Trump to test the boundaries of his legal authority to carry out his tough-on-crime agenda, relying on obscure statutes and a supposed state of emergency to speed up the mass deportation of people in the United States illegally.

Instead of taking over law enforcement in the city, the president and Republicans in Congress could make it a model for urban development.