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In an announcement that appeared to catch many off guard, President Trump on Sunday promised a Fourth of July celebration on the Mall this summer like no other, complete with a presidential address, fireworks and entertainment — in a city…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’ll host a July Fourth celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. And though the event he’s calling “A Salute to America” is months away, he’s boasting it’ll be one of the city’s biggest…

“We always seem to keep finding ourselves . . . at the same precipice,” former agency official says.

WASHINGTON — Bad news for fans of Starbucks out there, the company recently said they will be closing four of their 50 D.C. locations this year.

During Black History Month, we celebrate Yarrow Mamout as one of the first property owners on what is now Dent Place in Upper Georgetown, one of the first investors in the Bank of Georgetown, and one of our nation’s capital’s most notable…

In education policy circles, accountability and metrics are frequent topics for discussion and debate. In the rest of the country, people just want to know how our schools are doing and whether our children are getting a good education.…

Property crimes have increased in the District this year, and much of the rise appears to stem from an upsurge in thefts from cars in an area that includes many of Washington’s well-to-do neighborhoods.

As often happens with even the best-planned road trips, the cars were late to depart.

WASHINGTON — Nothing much has changed for the goofy giant pandas and the rascally red pandas. They’re still on display, climbing, falling, flopping and doing all the cute and entertaining things that make the pandas the most popular…

Thanksgiving. Christmas. New Year’s. Shamelen Henderson ticked off each as she recalled how at 13, she spent those holidays in a group home, with nowhere else to go.

He’s a pioneering attorney and Haitian immigrant who’s leading the emoluments lawsuit. He engineered some of Dems’ biggest wins in 2018. So why haven’t you heard of Karl Racine?

A group of Metropolitan Police Department officers and Metro Transit Police officers detained a group of young black children outside the Petworth Metro on Thursday night for at least 50 minutes.

The District narrowly missed an outbreak in 2017. Next time it might not be so lucky.

Complaints from residents of a Northwest Washington apartment building about lax oversight of a voucher program for poor tenants are drawing scrutiny from city officials, who in recent weeks have taken steps to allay their concerns.

Liberty the bald eagle, a staple presence in D.C.’s skies and one-half of the city’s longest-lasting eagle couple, is having a terrible year.

WASHINGTON — The soap opera unfolding in an eagle nest 110 feet above D.C. took a sad turn Friday.

A member of Congress raised objections to the District’s plan to award a sole source contract to run the city’s new and potentially lucrative venture into online sports gambling. But after his concerns were made public Friday, the…

A bill that would force retailers throughout D.C. to abandon their no-cash policies is being considered by the D.C. Council as part of a renewed effort to ban Washington, D.C., businesses from denying cash payments.

Three bills were introduced at the Feb. 5 D.C. Council meeting that are aimed at increasing transparency in the city’s public housing authority and within the awarding of funds for the development of more affordable housing.