The Latest Breaking News from District

Republicans continued their push to reshape criminal justice and policing in the District, with support from dozens of Democrats.

“When I was last here, I explained how we would drive down those trends, and it is working,” Mayor Muriel Bowser told a House panel Thursday. 

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.

There were ‘severe delays’ across the District, Central, and Hammersmith and City lines on Tuesday morning.

A key Republican senator said Tuesday he would oppose President Donald Trump’s pick to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.