FBI agents – thrust into yet another role for which they are not trained – have been put on patrol duties with local police ...

The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have long courted the idea of designating antifa as a domestic terrorist ...

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said he will not authorize the deployment of the Maryland National Guard to combat crime in areas ...

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser deployed some of her harshest rhetoric against President Donald Trump during his second term, deriding his takeover of the city’s police as an “authoritarian push ...

Trump has previously dispatched federal agents and National Guard troops on the streets of Washington D.C. during the George ...

Crime has fallen in Washington over the last two years but the president has long wanted to take control of the police and ...

Today, relaxed criminal laws and a pandemic-era crime spike have again made D.C. a federal target. But little is known about exactly how federal officials plan to improve the conditions they complain ...

The FBI has been headquartered in downtown Washington since 1975 but structural problems have plagued the building for two decades.

Former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn says President Trump's crackdown in Washington, D.C. could tarnish police ...