1. Trump activated the National Guard. The president can still call up the National Guard in Washington. His authority is ...

One day after President Donald Trump announced a federal takeover of Washington’s police department and activated 800 ...

President Trump’s decision to take control of the Metropolitan Police Department and deploy 800 National Guard troops in ...

Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., bailed out Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Pamela Smith ...

The White House would need approval from both House and Senate in order to extend the takeover the police department.

President Donald Trump is deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and said he will take over the city’s police ...

The mayor of Washington, D.C., held back in criticizing the Trump administration’s decision to send in the troops.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith struck a conciliatory tone amid a ...

Muriel Bowser slammed Trump's federal takeover of D.C. police as "unsettling" and vowed to fight what she called a "so-called ...

Mayor Muriel Bowser cited falling crime since 2023 and dismissed the “so-called emergency” behind Trump’s National Guard ...

Nothing about our organizational chart has changed and nothing in the executive order would indicate otherwise,” Bowser said.

WASHINGTON — After sources told WUSA9 Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Pamela Smith were blindsided by the president taking over D.C.'s police force on Monday, the two are now publicly showing ...