2021

First lady Dr. Jill Biden on Friday visited the D.C-based Whitman-Walker Health HIV/AIDS clinic, marking a distinct change for a new administration within its first 48 hours after inauguration.

A 15-year-old was among three people fatally shot in separate attacks in Southeast Washington on Thursday, a continuation of violence that marked last year as the deadliest in the District since 2004.

Hundreds of National Guard members forced from the U.S. Capitol and into a parking garage Thursday night were allowed to return indoors to rest, defense officials said Friday, after photos of soldiers lying on concrete prompted outrage…

The Georgetown Business Improvement District is seeking permission to widen and prop up with decks the sidewalks along its two busiest retail corridors to help businesses struggling due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Images of National Guard soldiers camped in a cold parking garage after being sent to protect Washington sparked new calls Friday for investigations of the U.S. Capitol Police, now facing allegations that the agency…

WASHINGTON (AP) — After President Joe Biden’s inauguration went off with only a handful of minor arrests and incidents, more than 15,000 National Guard members are preparing to leave Washington, D.C., and head home.

Many arts and entertainment workers applied for unemployment after the pandemic destroyed their industry. Receiving unemployment makes them ineligible for entertainment business aid from the District.

For now, the museum will operate on a modified schedule.

A Capitol Heights man accused of attacking police with a metal baseball bat in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol was jailed pending trial Friday as judges weighed holding others charged with committing violent assaults or other…

Jan. 6, 2021, was not the first time that a Congress in our nation’s capital was confronted with a serious domestic threat. Yes, during the War of 1812, British troops did march on Washington and set fire to the U.S. Capitol. But that was…

JUST HOURS after the inaugural festivities for President Biden concluded Wednesday night, work crews started to remove the temporary barriers and fencing that closed off key areas of the nation’s capital. Washingtonians, who saw their…

At least 19 U.S. Capitol Police officers have tested positive for COVID-19 since the January 6 insurrection, according to a USCP union leader. The union has harsh words for Capitol Police leadership in the wake of the test results.

Hundreds of D.C. poll workers whose payments were delayed after staffing the November general election started to receive their checks this week, nearly a month later than they were promised.

Local lawmakers and early-childhood advocates are criticizing D.C.’s plan to prioritize vaccines for teachers over those for day-care workers as the city attempts to reopen school buildings next month — even though most the city’s day…

Following reports that National Guard troops had been booted from the Capitol Complex in D.C. and told to use a parking garage as a rest area, acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman said Friday that her agency ordered no such thing.…

On Sep. 8, 1993, in the third-floor atrium of the D.C. Superior Court at 500 Indiana Ave. NW, Russell F. Canan was sworn in as a judge. Taking in the investiture and, safe to say, relishing it and beaming with pride, was a Roman Catholic…