2021

(CNN) — The US Capitol Police intends to reduce perimeter fencing and is considering scaling back the National Guard presence at the Capitol as law enforcement forces examine how to protect against threats amidst a tense political climate…

At a desk within the D.C. police homicide unit, a lone photo of a smiling, baby-toothed, slightly dimpled-cheeked baby boy is tacked to a partition.

If there is one thing I have learned from my 37 years in the U.S. Army, and 13 years since in environmental and civil rights causes, it is that fences may work to keep livestock in your field, but they don’t work — and they send the wrong…

U Street Corridor was once home to hundreds of Black-owned businesses. Author Briana Thomas is trying to keep that spirit alive.

Health workers prepared to vaccinate 500 people against COVID-19 Saturday at a clinic in D.C.’s Ward 7. This was part of an effort to reach residents east of the Anacostia River, including those who live at nearby senior housing…

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — On Saturday, two new high capacity vaccination sites opened up in the District.

Halfway through her second term, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has achieved one of the centerpieces of her agenda: dramatically reducing the number of homeless families in the city and replacing the massive and decrepit D.C. General shelter…

In 1936, it was estimated that one in three Washingtonians played the “numbers,” the illegal lottery that required a network of numbers “runners,” “books” and “banks.”

In a city where intense protests are regular fare, D.C. residents Saturday plopped down lawn chairs, busted out their crossword puzzles and ate pizza — all to show their objection to a four-mile fence around the U.S. Capitol that they say…

Getting vaccinated has been a challenge for some residents across the District, but on Saturday a clinic in Southeast is offering the vaccine to those who qualify.

As the weather warms and the promise of spring’s renewal is bolstered by increased optimism about the availability of COVID-19 vaccines, several of the symbolic centers of “life in D.C.” won’t return to pre-pandemic normal for the…

A Georgetown law professor has resigned after being placed on administrative leave over a Zoom conversation with a now-fired professor whom the school described as racist.

For the first time in a year, the sign at the Wharf that reads “We’ll Get Thru This” seemed to be true. Beneath it, a man on a scooter zipped past the patio at the Grill buzzing with first dates and Prosecco.

The District government launched an unusual effort months ago to limit the spread of the coronavirus: sending pairs of workers into the homes of people who test positive but have not yet been informed, or have not cooperated with contact…

Most Washington-area residents who have spent the past year teleworking because of the coronavirus pandemic could be back to their commutes by fall, but it might not resemble the commute they left behind early last year.

The debate over the fencing surrounding the U.S. Capitol continues, with a cheery protest planned on Saturday and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton still voicing her displeasure.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nobody, it seems, wants to keep the security fence around the U.S. Capitol anymore — except the police who fought off the horrific attack on Jan. 6.

U.S. prosecutors on Friday sketched out the gargantuan scope of the investigation in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, asking for courts to delay most cases by at least two months after being pressed by a handful of defendants and some judges to…

Authorities on Friday arrested a man accused of ripping the badge and radio from a D.C. police officer after rioters pulled him into a manic crowd and beat him unconscious during the Jan. 6. insurrection at the Capitol.

The FBI will be pulling up stakes from part of a Gallery Place office building it has occupied for the past 15 years after the federal government failed to seal a long-term deal with the building's landlord to extend its stay.