CNN By Brian Todd, Dan Berman, Michael Williams, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — A traffic checkpoint set up by Washington, DC, police and federal agents drew community outrage on Wednesday night as ...

Washington, D.C., recorded a homicide rate of 27.54 per 100,000 residents in 2024, ranking fourth among major U.S. cities despite overall violent crime dropping 35% from 2023.

White House mandate ‘runs roughshod over constitutional rights and due process protections,’ civil rights groups and legal ...

I was born in Washington, D.C., at the end of 1942. Growing up in the suburbs there was so little crime it made the front page in the city’s three newspapers. Today, unless someone who works on ...

The altercation came as hundreds of federal officers patrolled in the nation's capital as part of President Donald Trump's ...

WASHINGTON — Residents in one Washington, D.C., neighborhood lined up Wednesday to protest the increased police presence ...

Trump has said the takeover could be extended past its original 30-day limit — either through an act of Congress or by ...

Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) has condemned President Trump's efforts to federalize control of the Metropolitan Police ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would ask the Republican-controlled Congress to extend federal control of ...

Trump's announcements have raised fears that the government will use the Olympics to take actions that deprive homeless ...

The president and his allies have berated local officials. Yet the federal government has often made it harder for those ...

President Trump gains 30-day authority over the DC police force under Home Rule Act, with power to hire and fire department leadership amid public safety and crime concerns.