President Donald Trump announced earlier this week the decision to federalize Washington, D.C., as he cited crime and ...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a directive late on Thursday naming Drug ...

He’s spent more than 31 years as a law enforcement officer, including 22 at the DEA. At the agency, he worked in Oklahoma, ...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser pushed back on the order, saying "there is no statute that conveys the District’s personnel ...

The fallout from Trump's federal takeover of the police force in D.C. continues. Bondi's latest move prompts backlash.

"Commissioner Cole shall assume all of the powers and duties vested in the District of Columbia Chief of Police," Pam Bondi said on Aug. 14.

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The head of the DEA has been given the powers of D.C.’s police chief, part of a Trump administration law enforcement takeover ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Terry Cole, as Washington’s “emergency ...

New order will have DEA head serve as the designee of the attorney general for the purposes of requesting service.

The position will give Cole the same authority as Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith, who reports directly to Washington, ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed to back away from appointing a commissioner to take command of Washington, D.C., police after a federal judge expressed concerns Friday.