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The District announced Friday that all public school students would automatically be put into its asymptomatic coronavirus testing program — a reversal from its long-standing position that parents must consent to testing.

This weekend’s March On For Washington and Voting Rights and the Make Good Trouble Rally are expected to bring thousands to the National Mall to demand expanded access to the vote. The march comes amid a wave of legislation in…

A promised public museum at the congressionally chartered U.S. Institute of Peace failed to materialize. Why?

Hanging out on a patch of grass surrounded by a heavily-trafficked roadway may not sound like an ideal way to unwind on a summer afternoon. But if you stroll past one of D.C.’s traffic circles on a sunny day — instead of whizzing by in…

Photographer Chip Py was going to a lot of music shows in the D.C. area in the early 2000s, and he had seen plenty of pictures documenting area hardcore punk shows.

After writing about Georgetown’s role in the transatlantic slave trade for The Post in July, I came across new material on Georgetown’s connections to slavery and the slave trade. On at least one occasion, enslaved people from Africa were…

In D.C., many apartment residents are anxious inside their homes because of the outrageous behavior of their neighbors. What recourse do residents have when their housing provider is powerless to enforce the community rules, thanks to…

D.C. Council member Charles Allen held a virtual town hall with education leaders, advocates and parents in Ward 6 on Thursday night and plainly admitted his growing frustration with the city’s school leaders ahead of Monday’s start to the…

D.C. officials announced Friday that the city has doled out nearly $143 million — or 70 percent — of the $200 million in federal money it received to help residents cover overdue rent and utilities..

Thousands of people are expected for a voting rights protest on the 58th anniversary of the March on Washington

The Test Yourself DC program is expanding so that a site will be available within a 20-minute walk of almost anywhere in the District, according to a news release from the mayor’s office Thursday.

The chairman of the D.C. Board of Elections D. Michael Bennett will step down on September 30, relinquishing the position before the primaries next year.

A D.C. police sergeant fired at least 10 rounds into a BMW sedan, killing an armed man as he drove away from officers trying to detain him, a shooting the police chief called inconsistent with policies that generally prohibit firing at…

Video footage from D.C. police body-worn cameras was released Thursday after a man who had been found sleeping in a car was shot and killed by an officer after waking up on New York Avenue in Northeast.

Last week, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s back-to-school news meeting failed to reassure parents with promises of rather vague emergency measures in the event of a worsening COVID-19 caseload crisis (“a trend of concern” in the COVID case count…

D.C. has released body camera footage from the officers who killed a 27-year-old man, Antwan Gilmore, on New York Ave. NE early Wednesday morning.

A measure that phases out D.C.’s two-tiered minimum wage could reappear on the ballot in 2022.

Building a river crossing generally works best when the owners of both shores are on board. (Just ask the White's Ferry folks.)

The Washington Monument could soon reopen after being closed since a lightning strike Aug. 15.

The National Children’s Museum will reopen in September for the first time since March 2020, when it closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic less than a month after opening to the public.