Last year, I first proposed to my husband the idea of allowing our preteen daughter to ride the Washington, DC, Metro alone. She wants to take Irish dance classes in the city, and a weekly drive in ...

The DC National Guard began appearing in the nation’s capital on Tuesday after President Donald Trump announced a day earlier he is deploying guard troops and placing Washington, DC’s police ...

Investing.com -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday announced he is placing the Washington, DC police department under direct federal control and is deploying National Guard troops to the city.

A provision of DC's 1973 Home Rule Act allows a president to take control of the police department during an emergency. Trump is the first to do so. Because of DC's unique status as the seat of ...

As President Donald Trump weighs a possible federal intervention to address youth crime in Washington, D.C., the city is once again confronting a familiar, and controversial, question: Could the ...

On Monday, President Donald Trump released an executive order invoking a rarely used federal law that allows him to temporarily seize control over Washington, DC’s police force. Later the same day, DC ...

The mother of a congressional intern killed in a Washington, DC, drive-by delivered a heartbreaking plea Thursday, condemning the city’s crime surge while sharing the pain her family continues to ...