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President Joe Biden on Thursday vetoed a congressional resolution that sought to block a police discipline and accountability bill passed by the D.C. Council, siding with city lawmakers and advocates in a fight over police reform and…

“Uhh, thank you so much Optimus Prime,” said the mildly bemused D.C. bureaucrat, responding to the iconic leader of the Autobots.

The D.C. Council held a six-hour public oversight hearing this week to decide the best way to address the District’s dangerous driving crisis.

City leaders are seeking to reverse declining tax revenue from office properties downtown that have become increasingly vacant

Protests are planned at the Wharf today following Monday's abrupt closure of Moon Rabbit restaurant at the InterContinental hotel.

With just a little over a month before the last day of school, the principal of one of D.C.’s larger middle schools is out of the job.

Activists say he isn’t going far enough as big rent hikes loom.

Moon Rabbit, the critically acclaimed modern Vietnamese restaurant from Chef Kevin Tien, will close its doors for good Tuesday. This comes in the midst of a unionization effort by the restaurant’s servers, bartenders, and other workers.

Two years after magazine owner Cathy Merrill enraged staff by calling for a return to the office, the company has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board

Acclaimed chef Kevin Tien’s modern Vietnamese restaurant, Moon Rabbit, is closing on the Wharf at the end of service on Monday, a sudden and surprising move that local union officials say was engineered by the luxury hotel that houses the…

A petition by the D.C. school’s parents that called for Errol Johnson’s removal accused him of poor communication, drops in academic performance and ‘widespread dysfunction’

Brazen shootings and carjackings are headline-grabbing offenses that spark calls for change in D.C.’s public-safety system. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) is right to push for a revitalized whole-of-government and legislative approach to crime…

Benedict has served as the department’s executive assistant police chief since April 2021

A Metropolitan Police Department lieutenant was indicted Friday for leaking confidential information to Enrique Tarrio, leader of right-wing extremist group The Proud Boys, as he faced an arrest warrant for burning a Black Lives Matter…

What was for years a hotly debated topic was hardly debated at all this week in the D.C. Council.

Ashan M. Benedict, executive assistant chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, will be the city’s new interim police chief, stepping into the role after Robert J. Contee III announced he was stepping down as chief last month. Mayor…

Lt. Shane Lamond told Henry “Enrique” Tarrio that police had a warrant out for him in advance of his arrest in the burning of a Black Lives Matter flag, prosecutors say

A 10-year-old girl, Arianna Davis, clung to life for three days before dying of wounds she suffered from a barrage of indiscriminate gunfire while riding in the backseat of her parents’ car, alongside her siblings, on Mother’s Day. Police…

A deadly week in the District that included a student fatally shot in a high school parking lot in Petworth and a fifth-grader hit by a stray bullet on Mother’s Day has left city leaders and residents frustrated over the seemingly…

The new ballot initiative launched this week aims to open up primaries to independent voters and bring ranked-choice voting to the city.