President Trump's decision to assert federal control over Washington, D.C.'s police force and deploy National Guard troops to patrol the capital marked a stunning departure from governing norms, ...

Washington — President Trump announced this week the deployment of 800 members of the D.C. National Guard to the District of Columbia, as part of a push to crack down on crime in the nation's capital.

Saying he intended to quash "crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor," President Donald Trump has pushed National Guard troops into Washington, DC, in a federal takeover of the nation's capital. The move ...

Most of us remember before when the National Guard was activated in Washington, D.C. It was when the U.S. Capitol was attacked on Jan. 6, 2021. No question it was needed then, but Donald Trump was in ...

WASHINGTON — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Wednesday credited President Donald Trump's directed surge of federal law enforcement with lowering crime in the nation's capital but made it clear that the ...

Military officials are sketching out a plan that could deploy a few thousand National Guard members, officials said. The use of active-duty forces has also been discussed. The Pentagon has for weeks ...