The president has more power over the nation’s capital than other cities, but D.C. has elected its mayor and city council since the Home Rule Act was signed in 1973.

Donald Trump started pushing conspiracy theories rather than believe Washington, D.C., residents hate his guts.

The nation's capital sued to block President Donald Trump's takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after ...

Omar Wasow was studying race and politics at Stanford University when on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted the police officers ...

Back in early spring, Trump’s efforts upended the U.S. Institute of Peace, among other institutions and departments. On ...

After US President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of military and federal law enforcement to Washington in August 2025, ...

After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a national emergency would let him bypass the law’s limits.

In his post, state Attorney General James Uthmeier thanked U.S. Department of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem for the flight, ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” saying she is granting him the powers of the police chief amid the ...

President Donald Trump 's face-to-face high-stakes summit with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday could determine ...

As the Trump administration seeks to halt D.C. policies limiting police cooperation with immigration authorities and touts ...