2023

The D.C. health insurance exchange suffered a serious data breach that could impact thousands of residents, including elected officials in the District.

The fact-free debate over D.C.’s criminal code revisions showed how little has changed around the politics of crime, despite 2020’s promises of progress.

If they want to ‘fix’ our city, let them. Call them up about your broken streetlights, your rats, those overgrown trees. After all, they’re here to help.

The Senate voted Wednesday night to block changes to D.C.’s criminal code, the first time in more than three decades that Congress approved overruling the city.

For more than a year, she ran D.C.’s 911 emergency dispatch center. Now in a suit against the mayor and the District, the former director claims she was fired for shining a light on problems plaguing the department.

The Senate voted overwhelmingly yesterday to block the District's Revised Criminal Code Act, with just 14 votes against the resolution of disapproval and 81 votes in favor. One senator — Democrat Raphael Warnock of Georgia — voted…

DC Health Link confirmed that data on an unspecified number of customers was affected and said it was notifying them and working with law enforcement. It said it was offering identity theft service to those affected and extending credit…

The Senate voted on Wednesday to block changes to Washington, D.C.’s criminal code that would have reduced penalties for some violent crimes, marking the first time Congress approved overturning local D.C. legislation since 1991.

The Senate voted Wednesday to block new District of Columbia crime laws and overrule the city government as lawmakers in both parties have expressed concern about rising violent crime rates in cities nationwide.

Seventeen D.C. statehood advocates were arrested near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, protesting a Senate vote to block an overhaul of the District’s century-old criminal code.

Congress on Wednesday voted to overturn local D.C. legislation for the first time in more than 30 years, as a number of Senate Democrats joined Republicans in blocking a major overhaul of the city’s criminal sentencing laws.

The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to block a D.C. bill that overhauls the city’s century-old criminal code, sending the first congressional disapproval of a local bill in three decades to President Biden, who has said he won’t veto it.

The former interim director of D.C.’s Office of Unified Communications, the agency that oversees the city’s 911 calls, filed suit against D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser this month for alleged retaliation after she spoke up about “dangerous…

President Joe Biden’s support of a Republican resolution to block new District of Columbia crime laws has split members of his own party amid rising concerns about crime in the nation’s capital and other cities.

Ahead of the Senate's scheduled vote this afternoon to block the District's Revised Criminal Code Act, advocates of DC home rule and statehood rallied and marched on Capitol Hill to speak out against congressional interference under…

The U.S. Senate will debate and vote on a measure on Wednesday afternoon that would block the D.C. bill overhauling the city’s criminal code. The disapproval resolution — which was already passed by the House — is expected to pass with…

D.C. statehood advocates plan to rally on Wednesday in opposition to a vote by the Senate on whether to reject D.C.’s criminal code revamp, even as more Democratic senators said they planned to join Republicans in overturning the measure. …