2020

The District passed a somber milestone on Thursday: more than 500 residents dead from COVID-19.

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Two years after 22-year-old D.C. resident Marqueese Alston was shot and killed by D.C. police, Georgetown Law’s Civil Rights Clinic has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the District of Columbia and the individual officers involved in…

An annual count of the region’s homeless population, released this week, shows broad improvements. But the report, taken from a single-day count in January, doesn’t reflect the current reality impacted by COVID-19—and, in fact, forecasts a…

The Department of Defense is reviewing the National Guard’s controversial role in nationwide racial justice protests over the past few weeks.

The death toll from the novel coronavirus surpassed 500 in the nation’s capital on Wednesday. District health officials report that 375 of the 506 fatalities have been African American, 65 have been Hispanic and 54 have been white. Blacks…

In the early days of the protests in D.C. prompted by the death of George Floyd, many businesses boarded up their storefront windows.

The District passed a somber milestone on Thursday: more than 500 residents dead from COVID-19.

Thanks to an expansion of the number of protected bike lanes, adding access to Capital Bikeshare and new efforts promote bike safety for elementary school students, D.C. is one of the best places to ride a bike in North America, according…

Streets in downtown Washington and along the Mall will be closed Sunday and possibly part of Saturday for demonstrations that are expected as protesters continue to call for an end to racial injustice following the death of George Floyd in…

For as long as we Americans have been Americans, we’ve complained about taxes. Many of us complain that tax burdens are too heavy, a few complain that tax burdens are too light, and nearly everyone complains about the distribution of the…

D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee on Thursday defended the use of police officers in the city’s public schools, saying law enforcement and security guards are critical to student safety.

Where law enforcement had lined up behind riot shields, there now stood seven trash cans, overflowing with the pungent residue of a historic week of protests.

The Metro board said Thursday it will return next month with a plan to address systemic racism in the transit system, including allegations of racially biased and unequal enforcement by transit police.

D.C. has filed multiple lawsuits accusing relatives and a caretaker of taking financial advantage of elderly residents.

Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., Sharon Weston Broome of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta, and Victoria Woodards of Tacoma, Washington, spoke with ABC News about the scrutiny and challenges they've faced, and how…