The law lets Trump control the police department for a month, but how aggressive the federal presence will be and how it could play out remained open questions.

In a second term marked by a string of high-profile fumbles, sending out the troops makes Trump feel like he’s actually doing ...

The president described the nation’s capital in apocalyptic terms as a crime-infested wasteland — a description that ignores the extent to which crime has been falling in the city.

National Guard troops have started showing up in the nation’s capital after President Trump activated them to patrol Washington’s streets, arguing that crime has gotten out of ...

President Donald Trump announced he would deploy the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and assume control of the city's ...

Mayor Bowser disputes Trump’s emergency narrative, citing crime decline; critics call deployment a political power play.

Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by US president Donald Trump began arriving in the nation’s capital on ...

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