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NEW YORK — "South Park" continued its cartoon assault on the Trump administration Wednesday, with an episode that addressed the federal takeover of Washington, D.C.'s police department. The latest ...

By federalising the capital’s police and stifling protests, Trump is testing how far he can go to remake the US.

The military vehicle, which is designed to withstand explosive attacks, collided with a "civilian vehicle" just after 6 a.m. on Wednesday in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Photo: Alamy Federal authorities said Wednesday that more than 550 people have been arrested in the nation’s capital since President Donald Trump ordered a federal takeover of local policing earlier ...

Protesters booed and jeered Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House deputy chief of staff ...

The D.C. Police Union reported on its Facebook page that violent crime is down by 22% and property crime is down by 6%.

The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives has passed a redrawn congressional map that creates up to five new ...

Vice President JD Vance personally thanked federal law enforcement agencies and National Guard members for helping to crack ...

One person was injured Wednesday morning in a crash involving a D.C. National Guard vehicle in southeast Washington.

Donald Trump’s D.C. takeover is the usual Trumpian blend of idiocy and cruelty — all optics, unless you are brown-skinned.

In practice, the most visible impact of Trump’s federal takeover has been the immigration-enforcement effort in places ...