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For a year, 1,500 people held at D.C. jail have been confined to cells 23 hours a day in what experts call a grave human rights abuse

Two Windsor, Va., police officers harassed Black U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario at a traffic stop in a video that sparked national outrage. Critics say the policemen are lucky the incident happened in December instead of this spring. In…

Four people were arrested Saturday night after clashes between protesters and police in the Chinatown area of downtown Washington, authorities said.

The District will expand in-person learning when the fourth quarter of the academic year begins Monday, with the city’s wealthiest areas experiencing the biggest increase in seats.

Four people were arrested Saturday night during protests in Chinatown against recent police-involved shootings.

After one year of participating virtually, students from the DC Youth Orchestra practiced playing their musical instruments in person under a tent in preparation for June performances.

Jerome Powell says the recovery is far from over. The bleak reality is made clear outside his window on the Fed chair’s drive to work.

The D.C. government has denied a pastor’s request to instate a “COVID-immune section” for fully vaccinated parishioners at Capitol Hill Baptist Church — a church that has been going back and forth with the city over reopening restrictions…

The long-awaited World War I Memorial, honoring the nation’s “Doughboys,” is now open to visitors.

Wrapping up the state legislative session on Monday, Maryland lawmakers passed a bill that would legalize sports betting later this year.

The first mention of turning Franklin Square into a parking lot appeared in the Washington Herald of Oct. 12, 1921. “Nowhere to Park; Plan City Garage” was the headline.

Lindsey Brittain Collins discovered Nannie in the same way most people do: unintentionally.

People gathered at Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C. demanding policing reform following the deaths of Daunte Wright in Minneapolis Police custody and the recent fatal shooting of two men in Takoma Park, Maryland, by an off-duty Pentagon…

About 175 people rallied at Black Lives Matter Plaza in downtown Washington Friday night to protest recent police killings of Black people across the country before marching north and having minor confrontations with police.

It was an emotional outpouring of support Thursday night as a large crowd gathered to pay tribute to Jim Pagels, a D.C. bicyclist who was killed in a crash last week.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The new World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C., will open to the public Saturday, and its launch was marked by a ceremony and flag-raising in honor of the 4.7 million veterans who served in what’s known as America’s…

The rhetoric around the Smithsonian’s renovation of the Hirshhorn Museum’s sculpture garden is officially heated.

Public transit demand during the pandemic has shifted to neighborhoods with high numbers of Black, Hispanic and lower-income workers, flattening peak travel periods and forcing transit agencies to respond to new patterns before more…

Underneath the surface of the road at Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C. are electrical systems that need to be improved and upgraded, which means the plaza and the street-wide high letters are going to be unrecognizable for a while.

Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging business no longer lists a proposed high-speed D.C.-to-Baltimore transit system on its website and a Federal Highway Administration spokesman said the company has given the agency no indication it intends to move…