Trump fulfills campaign promise by federalizing D.C. with 30-day emergency control, cracking down on crime in the nation's capital.

Michael Sullivan was just settling into his role as chief of the Capitol Police when President Donald Trump shined a bright light on law enforcement in the nation’s capital. Trump’s move to exert emergency powers over local police and deploy the National Guard has been felt throughout the District, as Sullivan can attest.

Residents are organizing against Trump’s power grab in the capital — the latest embodiment of a generations-long fight for autonomy.

The left sees President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of law enforcement in Washington as part of multifront march to autocracy.

Donald Trump has claimed that Democrats are ringing him to thank him for making it “safe” to dine out in Washington DC , despite restaurants seeing a sharp decline in attendance since his police takeover.

In the month since congressional lawmakers left Capitol Hill to return to their home districts and states, both Democrats and Republicans have been plagued by contentious topics and social issues that threaten to cast a shadow over official business.

They’re popping up on walls around town, these Banksy-style images of a resistance fighter wielding a submarine sandwich rather than a brick. The imagery refers to the arrest last week of Sean Charles Dunn, a DC resident who feds accused of felony assault after he appeared to wing a hoagie at a federal police officer.