The outcome in the U.S. Senate last week couldn’t have been more clear: 81 senators, 33 of them Democrats, voted to block a D.C. bill that revised and modernized the city’s century-old criminal laws.

The legislation marks Clyde’s latest efforts to limit the D.C. government’s autonomy, as the Georgia Republican has previously pushed to repeal the city’s Home Rule that allows local lawmakers to pass ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's support of a Republican resolution to block new District of Columbia crime laws has split members of his own party amid rising concerns about crime in the ...

Feb. 10 (UPI) --The Republican-controlled House voted to block a pair of laws passed by the D.C. Council that would have updated the capital's criminal code and allowed non-citizens to vote in local ...