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When D.C. Superior Court Judge Marisa Demeo first applied for a job in the Justice Department in 1993, FBI agents showed up at her parents’ home to confirm that she had come out to them as gay.

A federal judge ruled that D.C. must provide incarcerated students with their legally mandated special-education services, which the students allege the city’s school system has not delivered during the public health emergency.

D.C. schools are developing a plan that will address the learning loss that happened over the pandemic, and it will be a plan that will meet kids where they are in their learning.

A Republican congressman from Wisconsin introduced legislation this week that would ban D.C. schools from teaching critical race theory — the academic framework that examines the way policies and laws perpetuate systemic racism.

A new report by advocates for the mentally ill alleges patient mistreatment and staff misconduct at a Northwest Washington psychiatric hospital that resulted in the mass arrest of teenagers and the death of a patient last year.

When Rachel Mann bought a townhouse in Valley Terrace about a decade ago, she loved the tall trees on Oxon Run Parkway, right behind her house.

Two months after students inside the D.C. Jail filed suit against the city for failing to provide them federally mandated education during the pandemic, the D.C. public schools chancellor is responding to a judge’s order.

Early on Friday morning, a Metro train arrived.

Faced with an unexpected day off on Friday to commemorate Juneteenth, Washingtonians joined tourists at public monuments and museums to reflect on the country’s painful history of slavery and its present-day repercussions.

In her latest push to get D.C. residents vaccinated against the coronavirus, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has announced a new incentive: $51 Visa gift cards.

D.C. Public Schools closed Friday for Juneteenth, America’s newest federal holiday, but the last-minute decision surprised and frustrated some parents.

A second-annual report from Capital Area Food Bank found that significantly more Hispanic families in the D.C. region are facing food insecurity after the pandemic — a “dramatic shift” that reflects the ways government-support systems…

A Republican congressman from Wisconsin has introduced a bill that would ban the teaching of critical race theory in D.C. public and charter schools, claiming it pits “Americans against Americans.”

Art, protests, performances, and celebrations of all sorts.

The nation’s capital is open for celebrations this Independence Day.

Dollar Tree is planning an expansion of its local footprint with a new location in D.C.’s Brightwood Park neighborhood, but its efforts could be thwarted, or at least complicated, by a lawsuit over its identified location — a former…

It’s time to shrink the federal district and add a 51st star to the flag.

The playful, modern French restaurant takes over Bajaj's decades-old Oval Room space.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a House bill Thursday that would create a memorial site in the District to honor enslaved Black people who disembarked at the Georgetown waterfront.

I once believed that with enough public understanding of the road rules and infrastructure, safety would naturally follow. Now I believe we must totally transform our streets.