The nation's capital challenged President Trump's takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after his administration stepped up its crackdown on policing by naming a federal official ...

The Justice Department on Thursday appointed an “emergency police commissioner” to oversee the Metropolitan Police Department.

Washington sued Donald Trump on Friday over his attempted takeover of the U.S. capital city's police force, escalating a ...

D.C. District judge Ana Reyes has scheduled an emergency hearing for 2 p.m. Friday on D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb's ...

He’s spent more than 31 years as a law enforcement officer, including 22 at the DEA. At the agency, he worked in Oklahoma, ...

DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit Friday against the Trump administration over its moves to take over the city’s police department and appoint an emergency commission ...

It was not immediately clear where the move left Pamela Smith, the city's current police chief, who works for the D.C. Mayor ...