2020

Buried in this week’s D.C. Council agenda was a December 19 request by Mayor Muriel Bowser to enact emergency gaming legislation that would pave the way for ABC licensed establishments to offer electronic “games of skill.”

He took the District to court challenging the way it awarded a lucrative mobile sports betting deal, but ultimately lost.

The International Spy Museum will change an exhibit that addresses torture after members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the intelligence community said the exhibit was “sanitizing” the torture program used by the CIA after 9/11.…

Retro American fare with a modern twist in the former Restaurant Nora space.

“So you guys gonna learn some steps?” Jakari Sherman asks me and my colleague Sasha-Ann Simons, who has agreed to join me in an impromptu, mid-workday dance lesson.

The D.C. apartment building that set a record with its 2014 sale has just sold again, but this time for $15M less.

The International Spy Museum’s glitzy new location at L’Enfant Plaza boasts interactive exhibits on espionage, and artifacts like the ice axe used in the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

A Council bill would ban these DIY firearms, but doesn't catch them all.

The D.C. government next week will permanently remove the tents and belongings of people experiencing homelessness from the sidewalks along the underpass on K Street NE in the NoMa area to create a “pedestrian passageway.”

Mark Sussman is a cyclist who understands what it’s like to worry about dangerous driving on the streets of D.C.

District leaders said Thursday they will not release a 2018 cybersecurity report that was produced to be shared with public.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday that her government is taking steps to ensure the District’s safety amid heightened tension between the U.S. and Iran but stressed “there are no immediate threats to Washington D.C.” while making a…

As the investigations surrounding Councilmember Jack Evans’ ethical conduct ballooned last year, challengers for his Ward 2 seat began pouring in from all sides. But now, instead of challenging an incumbent, they’re running only against…

A California woman has been charged with allegedly leaving voice-mail messages threatening to bomb, burn and kill people at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, after the private, Catholic all-girls high school announced plans to…

Families in D.C. are less likely to choose schools with large numbers of students from low-income families and black students, siphoning money from some of the city’s neediest campuses.

Two days after a Catholic school announced it would include news of same-sex marriages in its alumnae magazine, a nun and administrator received threats to bomb the school and kill nuns.

The man sleeping on a sidewalk mattress, next to his jar of urine and beneath a glimmering art installation of light created to brighten a city underpass, is not going away.