D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser sounded the alarm on the nationwide rise of new coronavirus cases, urging residents again to stay home for the Fourth of July.
Local and federal officials are sending different signals about how people should celebrate the Fourth of July in the District, particularly when it comes to mass gatherings amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Republican senators on Wednesday escalated their campaign against D.C. statehood, blasting the cause as a Democratic power grab and calling for a floor vote to force moderate Democrats to weigh in on the issue.
Flyovers by the Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy’s Blue Angels jet demonstration teams, plus a huge fireworks display, will highlight the Fourth of July festivities Saturday on the Mall, the Interior Department announced.
In April 1865, Abraham Lincoln visited the fallen capital of the Confederacy. The president took great pleasure sitting in the chair that had been used just two days earlier by Jefferson Davis, the leader of the rebellion he had finally!-->…
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 1, 2020
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
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Shared adversity can bring a community together, and I’m happy to see that greater Washington is responding in solidarity in the face of both racial inequality and the immense public health challenge of COVID-19.
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The economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic has made the current state of the hotel industry in Washington bleak. But some in D.C.’s tourism industry are hopeful that the city will remain a desirable travel destination.
This is A Cautionary Tale featuring well-intentioned people making poor choices. It is also the tale of a socialite with an Instagram habit who recently held a fabulous backyard soiree during a pandemic. The upside of living on social!-->…
Staffers at WAMU in Washington, D.C., are flooding social media with tweets about departures of people of color from the station after a Black producer said last week that management was seeking to fire him.
A D.C. businessman has won his legal case after he was barred from distributing fireworks in the city while Costco was allowed to continue selling the items.
African American women are up to three times more likely to die of pregnancy related-causes than white women, and infant mortality in D.C. is among the highest in the nation.