2021

When Black Lives Matter protesters were arrested by D.C. police last year, many subsequently faced charges for rioting. Now a D.C. lawmaker wants to know if similar charges could apply to President Donald Trump for Wednesday’s deadly…

Federal prosecutors have released details of some of the first dozen or so people charged in Wednesday’s storming of the U.S. Capitol, and law enforcement authorities say they are “sparing no expense” to track down others who took part in…

WEDNESDAY’S ASSAULT on the U.S. Capitol, and on American democracy, was instigated and condoned by President Trump. He should be held to account, and the rioters themselves prosecuted. Yet accountability cannot end there, nor can…

After pro-Trump insurrectionists fought their way into Congress and essentially shut the city down Wednesday, stories began emerging of restaurant workers, hotel, and hospital staff getting caught in the fracas. D.C.’s essential workers,…

Katelyn Mazenko planned to have her first grade class at Janney Elementary School on Thursday write sentences, play bingo and solve math problems. But after pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol building the day before, the…

The day after alt-right insurrectionists entered the U.S. Capitol, D.C. teachers balanced their own raw emotions and held space for students.

After a few rounds of design revisions, the proposed development for the parking lot at Georgetown institution W. T. Weaver and Sons has a new look.

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A U.S. Capitol Police officer who was injured amid Wednesday’s takeover of the Capitol died Thursday night, according to a statement from his department.

I have nothing to add that has not already been said about the events that transpired on Wednesday, other than these observations from my many hours of providing tours of the U.S. Capitol and the thoughts I have every time I have walked…

The fallout from a pro-Trump mob’s storming of the U.S. Capitol continued around D.C.’s legislative core Thursday as the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police resigned and a 7-foot-tall fence went up around the Capitol building.

With images of hundreds of rioters freely walking the halls of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, sitting in offices of elected lawmakers, stealing items and leaving the seat of American democracy without being arrested, seared in the nation’s…

The union representing rank-and-file members of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department is not mincing words after the fatal riots at the U.S. Capitol this week.

Wednesday’s storming of the U.S. Capitol did not just overshadow one of the deadliest days of the coronavirus pandemic — it could have contributed to the crisis as a textbook potential superspreader, health experts warn.

Students and faculty from Howard, GWU, Trinity Washington and other D.C. area colleges flabbergasted at U.S. Capitol attacks

Inside the U.S. Capitol, the rioters were in charge.

Several dozen people arrested in the violent chaos at the U.S. Capitol made their first appearances in court Thursday as authorities vowed to track down additional suspects and also determine why the mob that stormed and vandalized the…

Happy Thursday. Federal prosecutors charged at least 40 people in DC Superior Court on Thursday in connection with Wednesday's riot at the U.S. Capitol, and law enforcement authorities said more charges and arrests are expected in the…

The Pentagon placed tight limits on the D.C. National Guard ahead of pro-Trump protests this week, trying to ensure the use of military force remained constrained, as the Guard carried out a narrow, unarmed mission requested by the city’s…