A former Olympian has been indicted on a felony charge for alleged vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Democrats in 25 states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over its interpretation of new Medicaid work requirements.
A settlement document reveals the District of Columbia has agreed to pay $50,000 to resolve a lawsuit filed by a resident who accused police officers of illegally detaining him for following an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader’s theme song from “Star Wars” on his phone.
The District of Columbia has reached a settlement agreement for an undisclosed amount of money with a resident who claims police illegally detained him for following an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader’s theme song from “Star Wars” on his phone.
America is celebrating its 250th anniversary, and the nation's capital is undergoing significant changes under President Donald Trump.
A bystander wounded during an exchange of gunfire near the White House last month is an active-duty soldier and is still being treated for his wounds, according to the law firm he has retained.
The bystander who was struck by gunfire after a man fired on a checkpoint outside the White House and was fatally shot by U.S. Secret Service officers remains in serious condition.
A coalition of President Donald Trump's critics is suing to block payouts from a new $1.8 billion settlement fund for Trump allies claiming to be victims of a weaponized government.
A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration’s recent caps on federal student loans, arguing the limits will make it harder for students pursuing certain healthcare degrees to attain the necessary training and education.
The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for the man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum.
The Justice Department is challenging efforts to sanction attorneys from the first and second Trump administrations, asserting in a lawsuit that the District of Columbia Bar is unfairly playing politics with the legal disciplinary process.
Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in an attempt to kill President Donald Trump struck a Secret Service agent.
West Virginia's next Catholic bishop was born in El Salvador and has been critical of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
The Federal Reserve will meet this week ahead of a looming leadership transition that remains fuzzy, and Wednesday’s news conference will be closely watched for any clarification.
A proposal that would require California to verify proof of citizenship when a person registers to vote — and require voters to provide identification at polling places — will appear on the November ballot.
A Republican congressman has introduced legislation that would expand the borders of Washington, D.C., and cost Virginia Democratic voters.
Eight months after President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the nation’s capital and called up the National Guard, more than 2,500 troops remain.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser has unveiled her last budget, a $21.2 billion gross operating spending plan that is sure to erupt into battles on the District Council and Capitol Hill, where Republican lawmakers have shown a growing willingness to interject themselves into local affairs.
The U.S. Secret Service says it's investigating overnight reports of gunfire near Lafayette Park, which is across the street from the White House.
The U.S. Supreme Court has heard arguments on whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots — an election issue targeted by President Donald Trump.
The massive sewage pipe that ruptured and leaked millions of gallons of raw waste into the Potomac River has returned to operation after the completion of emergency repairs.
The Justice Department has moved to dismiss charges against an Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House last year to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order on flag burning.
Lawmakers and the White House offered no signs of compromise over the holiday weekend in their battle over oversight of federal immigration officers that has led to a pause in funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
President Donald Trump is lashing out at Maryland Gov. Wes Moore over what he says is as a lagging response to a January pipe rupture that sent sewage flowing into the Potomac River northwest of Washington.
Families and emergency responders are marking the one-year anniversary of the deadly plane collision over the Potomac River.
Washington’s inspector general’s office has launched an investigation into the Metropolitan Police Department’s crime data reporting system.
The Trump administration is suing the local government of Washington, D.C., over its gun laws, alleging that restrictions on certain semiautomatic weapons run afoul of Second Amendment rights.
The U.S. Justice Department has sued three states and the District of Columbia for not turning over requested voter information to the Trump administration.
Illinois residents with terminal illnesses may choose to end their lives on their own terms under a law Gov. JB Pritzker has signed.
President Donald Trump has been sued by preservationists seeking an architecture review and congressional approval over his White House ballroom project.
A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the Trump administration to restore billions in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding.
A U.S. District Court decision to end the deployment of National Guard members to Washington, D.C., is on hold.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary end to President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital.
A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration to end its monthslong deployment of National Guard troops to help police the nation’s capital.
A West Virginia state judge has allowed the continued deployment of more than 300 West Virginia National Guard members to Washington, D.C. Kanawha County Circuit Judge Richard D.
The Washington D.C. National Guard will be deployed to the nation’s capital through the end of February, according to formal orders reviewed by The Associated Press.
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from pulling sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities.
Vice President JD Vance says that he believes U.S. military members will be paid at the end of the week as the Trump administration reconfigures funding in the second-longest government shutdown.
President Donald Trump has welcomed nearly 130 donors, allies and representatives of major companies for a dinner at the White House to reward them for their contributions to a new $250 million ballroom project.
Eleanor Holmes Norton has been an outspoken advocate for the District of Columbia during her 18 terms as the city's delegate in Congress.
A New Jersey man has been arrested on charges that he had explosive materials in his possession near a Washington, D.C., church that was preparing to celebrate an annual Mass marking the start of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term.
A new report finds the Department of Government Efficiency’s remaking of the federal workforce has battered the Washington job market and put more households in the metropolitan area in financial distress.
President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement intervention in the nation’s capital has led to federal charges against more than 50 people over the past month.
President Donald Trump has announced the deployment of the National Guard to Memphis to combat crime, testing the limits of presidential power by using military force in cities.
President Donald Trump’s emergency order that federalized Washington’s police force is set to expire.
Two teenagers have been arrested on murder charges in the killing of a congressional intern who was struck by stray bullets during a shooting in the nation’s capital.
The FBI seized phones, computer equipment and typed documents from the home of John Bolton as part of an investigation into whether President Donald Trump's first-term national security adviser mishandled government secrets.
The District of Columbia is challenging President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in Washington.
District of Columbia National Guard troops who are deployed as part of President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement intervention in the nation’s capital have had their orders extended through December.
Federal grand jurors in the nation’s capital have refused to indict two people who were charged separately with threatening to kill President Donald Trump.
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Federal prosecutors have failed to indict a man who was seen on camera hurling a sandwich at a federal law enforcement official in the nation’s capital.
Hundreds of people have been arrested since President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown flooded the nation’s capital with federal agents and troops.
Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms.
President Donald Trump is praising his military crackdown on crime and immigration in Washington, D.
Federal prosecutors in the nation’s capital will no longer bring felony charges against people for possessing rifles or shotguns in the District of Columbia.
Three more Republican governors have authorized the deployment of National Guard troops to Washington.
Federal troops are patrolling the National Mall and neighborhoods across Washington while President Donald Trump’s administration exerts extraordinary power over law enforcement in the nation’s capital.
Federal agents who typically investigate drug lords, weapons traffickers or cyber criminals have fanned out across the nation’s capital.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” saying she is granting him the powers of the police chief amid President Donald Trump’s takeover.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Terry Cole, as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner."
The White House says the number of National Guard troops in Washington will ramp up and federal officers will be on the streets of the nation’s capital around the clock.
Mexico is expelling 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the President Donald Trump‘s administration.
Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by the Trump administration to assist with law enforcement have begun arriving in Washington, D.
President Donald Trump says he’s taking over Washington’s police department and activating 800 members of the National Guard in the hopes of reducing crime, even as city officials stressed crime is already falling in the nation’s capital.
President Donald Trump's promised law enforcement surge in the nation's capital didn't appear to happen as scheduled on its first night.
Two 15-year-olds have been arrested in Washington for an attempted carjacking and beating of Edward Coristine, a prominent member of the Department of Government Efficiency.
The Senate has confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital, filling the post after President Donald Trump withdrew his controversial first pick, conservative activist Ed Martin Jr. Pirro is a former county prosecutor and elected judge.
President Donald Trump’s social media posts about the NFL’s Washington Commanders and Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians going back to their old names has revived the conversation about Native American imagery in sports.
A former FBI agent who was charged with joining a mob’s attack on the U_S_ Capitol and cheering on rioters is now working as an adviser to the Justice Department official overseeing its “weaponization working group.”.
A federal appeals court is staying a lower court ruling that blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with dismantling the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, along with 15 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia Attorney General, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Maryland on Monday to stop a settlement between the Trump administration that would allow a device to convert a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun.
Officials in the nation’s capital generally express full confidence in their ability to handle large, complicated events and huge crowds.
A unanimous Supreme Court has made it easier to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, siding with an Ohio woman who claims she didn’t get a job and was demoted because she's straight.
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider reviving a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows mail ballots to be counted if they are received up to two weeks after Election Day.
Global reactions are pouring in after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish museum.
The man charged with fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington as they were leaving an event at a Jewish museum told police after his arrest, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza.”.