The showdown in Washington is the latest attempt by Trump to test the boundaries of his legal authority to carry out his ...

Omar Wasow was studying race and politics at Stanford University when on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted the police officers ...

The deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., affects all Americans, even Mainers. Washington is our seat of government — and like our nation, it is meant to be governed by citizens and ...

Back in early spring, Trump’s efforts upended the U.S. Institute of Peace, among other institutions and departments. On ...

Legal experts say when National Guard members are deployed into what could be volatile situations with citizens, they could ...

Trump compels his followers to endorse obvious lies. It’s accelerating the country’s descent in authoritarianism.

President Trump takes on crime in DC and negotiations with Russia. Plus, KCRW discusses whether presidential power can drive ...

Sean Dunn, who worked as a Justice Dept. lawyer, admitted he threw a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer deployed in D.C.

After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a national emergency would let him bypass the law’s limits.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s capital challenged President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department in court on ...

President Donald Trump ‘s face-to-face high-stakes summit with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday could determine ...

As President Donald Trump pushes the bounds of military activity on domestic soil, a debate has emerged over a nearly ...