2020

Happy Tuesday. The DC Council voted unanimously to approve police reform legislation, bringing to fruition ideas brought up at public hearings in past years that hadn't gotten legislators' support at the time.

Amid historic protests drawing attention to police misconduct, the D.C. Council passed a major slate of changes Tuesday, banning the hiring of officers with a history of serious misconduct elsewhere, requiring swift release of the names…

School leaders across the nation are preparing to reopen campuses in the fall. And they’re quickly learning that, when it comes to necessary supplies, it isn’t going to be easy — or cheap.

Three Democratic lawmakers are asking federal watchdogs to investigate whether U.S. Park Police broke any laws in routing demonstrators from the square in front of the White House last week.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine sued the D.C. Housing Authority on Tuesday, saying that the agency endangered thousands of tenants by failing to respond to endemic problems related to drugs and firearms at 10 public housing complexes.…

As George Floyd was being eulogized and laid to rest 1,400 miles away in Houston on Tuesday, protests of his death, police brutality and unequal treatment of African Americans continued in the nation’s capital for the 12th straight day.

Two new members of Congress have signed onto legislation that would make D.C. the 51st state, the week after the president deployed military and federal law enforcement on District streets.

For the past week, D.C. resident Kya Parker has been cooking almost nonstop.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine is suing the city’s housing authority over conditions at 10 of its properties, alleging that the agency has been “refusing to address systematic drug-and firearm-related activity” at the properties, where…

The D.C. Council on Tuesday unanimously passed an emergency police-reform bill requiring body-camera footage to be made public more quickly after a police shooting, imposing limits on when officers can use deadly force and banning the…

In response to the widespread protests against police brutality over the past two weeks, DC is joining other jurisdictions in enacting some police reform measures.

These local charities address racial inequities—and they could use your help

A new exhibit in D.C. highlights the Black Lives Matter movement that people can view while walking through Gallery Place.

After being deployed during large-scale protests that have swept the District for nearly two weeks, members of the D.C. National Guard have tested positive for the coronavirus.

As two Washington theater companies announced Tuesday they will not be back on their stages for the rest of 2020, a third affirmed that it hopes to restart live performances in August.

Before the pandemic, Loyalty Bookstore had seen about 50 online orders a week since its new website launched in October. When physical stores shut down in mid-March due to the pandemic, that number jumped to 300 to 400 per week.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser about "BLACK LIVES MATTER" road banner painted near the White House and the police in D.C. and around the country.

The D.C. Council approved emergency legislation Tuesday afternoon that includes sweeping police reforms. Council members voted unanimously to approve the bill.

DC Attorney General Karl Racine filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA).

As protests over the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other black people at the hands of police continue in D.C. and across the U.S., many protesters are beginning to ask: What comes next?