- President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington, as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, left, and Attorney General ...

Trump’s DC police takeover and National Guard deployment is ‘unsettling and unprecedented’, mayor says - The president spoke at a White House press conference on Monday and invoked section 740 of the ...

President Donald Trump took a shot at Baltimore on Monday, calling Charm City “so far gone” on crime despite its recent ...

President is deploying National Guard in response to what he calls a crime emergency, with 800 troops to be sent to DC.

President Trump on Monday announced plans to deploy some 800 members of the Washington, D.C., National Guard to the nation’s ...

The Army has activated about 800 D.C. National Guard soldiers to support law enforcement across the nation’s capital.

The president is holding a news conference Monday morning to discuss efforts to fight crime and clean up the nation's capital ...

Donald Trump said he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city's police department, an extraordinary assertion of presidential power in the nation's ...

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser is voicing concerns about the president's potential use of the National Guard to patrol ...

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President Donald Trump has ordered 800 National Guard members to help law enforcement fight crime in Washington.

President Trump places D.C.'s 3,400 police officers under federal control using emergency powers and proposes legislation to end no-cash bail practices.