Federal troops are patrolling the National Mall and neighborhoods across Washington while President Donald Trump's administration exerts extraordinary power over law enforcement in the nation's capital.

Under the accord presented by the two sides to U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, Trump administration lawyers conceded that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's appointed police chief, Pamela Smith, would remain in command of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington’s “emergency police commissioner” as she carries out President Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision to take over the Washington police department.

Under pressure from a federal judge, the Justice Department clarified that Washington’s police chief will, for now, retain control of the city’s police force. The revision came after Judge Ana C. Reyes encouraged the Justice Department and D.

Two Texas men were sentenced to federal prison on Thursday for their role in a conspiracy to disguise themselves as Drug Enforcement Administration agents and steal marijuana from a Southern Oregon home in 2022.

The DEA says that in North Dakota, close to 70 pounds of meth have been confiscated in 2025, the most in the past five years.

A suspect was shot Wednesday morning while Drug Enforcement Administration agents were executing a search warrant in Parsippany, N.J., authorities said.

Federal agents who typically investigate drug lords, weapons traffickers, or cyber criminals have fanned out across the nation’s capital. Here's what they're doing in D.C.