Brian Schwalb, D.C. Attorney General, has filed a lawsuit to prevent the federal takeover of the police department.

Three states moved to deploy hundreds of members of their National Guard to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul policing in Washington through a federal crac...

When they heard President Trump was federalizing District of Columbia police and sending in hundreds of National Guard troops, some residents’ first reaction was relief, she said.