The lawsuit alleges President Donald Trump and members of his administration overstepped their authority when taking federal control of the city’s law enforcement earlier this week.

The showdown in Washington is the latest attempt by Trump to test the boundaries of his legal authority to carry out his ...

District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit saying Trump is going beyond his legal power over the ...

President Donald Trump’s face-to-face high-stakes summit with President Vladimir Putin could determine the fate of European ...

DC's lawsuit argues Trump exceeded his authority under the Home Rule Act of 1973 when he took over the Metropolitan Police ...

The Home Rule Act formed the roles of the city council and the mayor, and allowed D.C. to have some autonomy and pass its own ...

A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation's capital has been ...

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

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser wrote on social media that “there is no statute that conveys the District’s personnel ...

Tension in the nation's capital escalated over the question of who controls the city's police department after Washington, D.C.'s Attorney General sued over the White House's bid for full control.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed DEA Administrator Terry Cole as the "emergency police commissioner" of the ...

The order by a federal official to replace the police chief of the Metropolitan Police Department on an "emergency" basis has ...