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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

A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary end to President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital

Live updates on London’s latest travel news across Tube, railways and roads

President Trump on Friday said he intends to ask Congress for $2 billion to fund his vision for the District of Columbia.

Washington, D.C.’s attorney general calls administration’s actions ‘gravest threat’ to district’s self-governance

Analysts say they see “a weird degree” of federal involvement in the day-to-day criminal justice apparatus of the District of Columbia.

President Trump said he would take over Washington, D.C.’s police force and deploy National Guard troops to fight crime and car thefts.

Acting through through Section 546, or temporarily through the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, the Attorney General is entitled to appoint U.S. Attorneys for the District of New Jersey and all other federal judicial districts. If done properly, such appointments preempt any need for judges to appoint U.S. Attorneys. But it…

Restrictions on D.C. are a staple of appropriations season, but local advocates say things are trending in the wrong direction.