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.

With each phone call home, the troops describe a mission unlike any other. One soldier from Tennessee told his father that from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. every day, his only task is to walk around Chinatown.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...