2020

Weeks after protesters were removed forcefully from Lafayette Square, witnesses testified before members of Congress to denounce the “aggressive tactics” used against demonstrators by U.S. Park Police and other federal agents.

Witnesses told members of Congress on Monday that law enforcement officers forcefully cleared out peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square near the White House earlier this month with little warning and indiscriminate attacks on some of…

Jane Jane is set to debut in Whitman-Walker's Liz redevelopment this fall.

On Saturday evening, the Metropolitan Police Department published a seemingly innocuous tweet about a group of residents delivering lunch to officers in the Second District.

The D.C. Council is tinkering with Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to incentivize the construction of affordable housing in the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods, aiming to strengthen affordability requirements and open the program to include…

Johns Hopkins University completed on Monday the first part of its acquisition of the former Newseum complex at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, where it hopes to start work soon on a major overhaul of the property.

Nearly five years after an arts-focused boutique hotel was proposed next to Union Market, the development team has decided to take a different approach for the site.

Several local social justice organizations hosted a DC Excluded Workers rally Monday morning at Freedom Plaza in support of D.C. workers who are left out of key cash assistance programs, including sex workers, street vendors, and others in…

Among a certain group of D.C. partygoers, Diner en Blanc — the pop-up, mystery-shrouded picnic whose attendees arrive decked out in all white — is the big event to end the summer.

With the D.C. region slowly reopening after a monthslong coronavirus shutdown, Metrobus is reallocating buses to provide more frequent service and up its capacity for passengers starting Monday, June 29.

Prodded by nationwide protests and video evidence of police abuses, more white Americans are recognizing that their fellow black and brown citizens live in a different world when dealing with law enforcement.

Thousands of people have signed a petition asking Lewis Ferebee, the D.C. schools chancellor, to change the name of Tenleytown’s Woodrow Wilson High School.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Muriel Bowser’s national profile had never been higher, thanks to a Twitter beef with President Donald Trump and a renewed push to turn the nation’s capital into the 51st state. Now Washington’s mayor must pull off a…

Two Texans are yearning to return to college in the nation’s capital after dreary months of waiting to hear whether the coronavirus closures would end. Like many students nationwide, they spent their spring in a surreal state of pandemic…

Four men have been charged with destruction of federal property for allegedly trying to topple the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square, the Department of Justice announced Saturday.

Four men alleged to have been trying to tear down the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Square just outside of the White House were each charged with destruction of federal property on Friday, according to a news release from the U.S.…

Four men have been charged in connection with an attempt to tear down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square, the U.S. attorney’s office for Washington announced Saturday evening.

Dr. William Strudwick was finishing a shift at Washington, D.C.'s Howard University Hospital when his wife, Maria, texted. Their 19-year old son, Cole, wanted to join a protest five days after the killing of George Floyd.

Temperatures in the 90s on Saturday tamped down some of the energy rolling through streets and parks around D.C. in the last week.