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President Donald Trump's D.C. police takeover could signal the end of home rule as administration asserts federal control ...

Washington is a district, not a state, so it doesn't have a governor. For most of it's history it didn't have control over ...

P resident Donald Trump became the first president to invoke the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to take temporary control over law enforcement in Washington, D.C., citing high crime levels that ...

Kentucky is one of 17 states and the District of Columbia starting this school year with new restrictions, bringing the total ...

The House of Representatives made history Friday, passing for the first time legislation that would grant statehood to the District of Columbia. The bill passed along party lines, 232-180. Though ...

Republican governors are sending hundreds of National Guard members to Washington, D.C. to support President Trump's ...

The moves came as protesters pushed back on federal law enforcement and National Guard troops fanning out in the heavily ...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit against TikTok on Aug. 19, alleging that the app creates a "habitual dependence" in children.