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.

In a story published Oct. 23, 2025, about state rules regarding driver’s licenses, The Associated Press erroneously reported about state rules for driver’s licenses.

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.

President Donald Trump will be speaking at a hastily called meeting of top military leaders.

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.

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An immigration crackdown in Washington has taken a toll on children attending the district's schools.

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.

Thousands have taken to the streets of Washington, D.

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.

Georgia is becoming the eighth state to send National Guard troops to Washington, D.

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.

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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.

Here's something to add to your holiday weekend list: Saturday’s Powerball jackpot is estimated at $1 billion, the sixth-largest prize in the game’s history.

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.

A new poll shows handling crime is now a relative strength for President Donald Trump.

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.

President Donald Trump has expanded his law-enforcement crackdown in Washington, D.

A coalition of attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, D.

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 took unprecedented steps toward federalizing Washington, D.

In justifying a federal take over of policing in Washington, D.

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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.

The White House has announced an increased federal law enforcement presence in Washington, D.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”.

The U.S. Institute of Peace has retaken control of its headquarters, two days after a federal judge said the firing of its board and employees by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency was illegal.

The Trump administration has agreed to pay just under $5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit that Ashli Babbitt’s family filed over her shooting by an officer during the U.S. Capitol riot.

A federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with its dismantling of the U.S. Institute of Peace.

A federal judge says the government must stop slashing billions in money for public health departments.

The FBI is disbanding a squad in its Washington field office that investigates allegations of fraud and public corruption against members of Congress and other federal officials.

A flurry of rumors and unconfirmed media reports has fueled fears that agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be descending on schools in Washington, D.

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A federal judge says he sympathizes with thousands of federal employees who were suddenly fired by the Trump administration, but he also voiced skepticism about whether reinstating them to their jobs was a proper remedy and questioned what the courts could ultimately do.

Chief Justice John Roberts appears to hold the key vote over whether the Supreme Court will allow the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged that a new, state-of-the-art Commanders stadium in Washington would drastically increase the chances of the U.S. capital hosting the Super Bowl for the first time.

Officials say a suspect has been arrested in connection with last week's theft of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse as she ate at a Washington, D.

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and the District of Columbia Council are scrambling to address a financial crisis created when the Republican-controlled House of Representatives recessed without voting to fix a hole in the city budget.

In the U.S. capital, hundreds of Ethiopians dressed in white tunics gather at the DSK Mariam Church to chant and pray in an ancient liturgical language of one of the oldest branches of Christianity.

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The Trump administration is having early discussions about a grand military parade in the nation's capital this summer.

A federal judge who had ordered the Trump administration to reinstate fired federal probationary employees across the country at more than a dozen agencies has narrowed the scope of his ruling so it now applies to workers in the 19 states and the District of Columbia that challenged the mass dismissals.

The District of Columbia's non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives is hailing President Donald Trump’s support for a budget fix that would prevent immediate financial disaster for the city.

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Most U.S. adults think betting on professional sports should be legal but they don’t feel the same way about college sports, according to a new AP-NORC survey.

The Senate has swiftly approved legislation that would allow the District of Columbia to keep its budget intact.

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Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House.

The Supreme Court seems likely to side with an Ohio woman who claims she suffered sex discrimination in her employment because she is straight.

The moment that local officials in our nation’s capital have been dreading for months is finally here.

A conservative activist who echoed Donald Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen 2020 election and defended Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rioters has been nominated by the Republican president to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.

George Washington was uneasy about the idea of commemorating his life.

Amazon has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to settle charges that the e-commerce company subsidized its labor costs by taking tips its delivery drivers received from customers.

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Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk posted on his social media site that he has “deleted” 18F, a government agency that worked on technology projects such as the IRS's Direct File program.

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to dismiss their case against a former Nebraska congressman charged with lying to authorities about a foreign billionaire’s illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign.

The top federal prosecutor for Washington is a conservative activist who promoted Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about a stolen election, railed against the prosecution of the rioters who stormed the Capitol and represented some in court.

An Indiana man was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop, just days after he was pardoned by President Donald Trump for a misdemeanor related to the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot.