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Airbnb announced Wednesday that it will cancel all reservations in the DC region during the week of the presidential inauguration in response to officials asking people not to travel to DC.

Federal authorities are busy locking down a large swath of D.C. six days earlier than originally planned after last week’s riots and ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

"The Kojo Nnamdi Show," the long-running local news program on public radio station WAMU 88.5, will go off the air in 2021 as its host largely retires, Kojo Nnamdi announced Wednesday. The last show will air April 1.

The District began locking down more parts of the city Tuesday in preparation for potentially violent protests before and on the day of the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration.

It was a video clip that captured not only the terror of the day, but the values at stake: a lone Black police officer in the marble halls of the U.S. Capitol building, facing down a mob of mostly White rioters who had stormed in bearing…

The Kojo Nnamdi Show’s 23-year-run on WAMU will end this spring, the station announced today. The last live show will air Thursday, April 1. Nnamdi will continue to host The Politics Hour on Fridays and he will host a series of live events…

Howard University alum Psalmayene 24 is one of our top young playwrights, embarking on a three-year stint as the Playwright in Residence at Mosaic Theater in Northeast D.C.

Fences were going up across downtown D.C. and National Guard troops took up posts on street corners Tuesday, part of a sweeping lockdown aimed at heading off any unrest during a weekend of right-wing protests and the presidential…

The owner of the Marriott Wardman Park has permanently closed the hotel and filed for bankruptcy with the intention of selling the century-old property as part of its reorganization.

In its first full meeting following the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, D.C. Council members spent a significant amount of time debating whether they can take home office furniture.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI warned law enforcement agencies ahead of last week’s breach of the U.S. Capitol about the potential for extremist-driven violence, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, contradicting earlier statements that they were…

A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an internal document reviewed by The…

The more he learned about Wednesday’s rioting that led to five deaths at the U.S. Capitol, the more incredulous Theotis “Butch” Jones, a retired Capitol Police officer, became.

Last week, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) introduced a bill to make the nonfederal areas of D.C. the 51st state. In her introductory remarks, she noted that the bill is similar to one she introduced in 1991 and several more times over…

January 6 marked the third time since the election that Trump supporters rallied in D.C. over false claims about a stolen election. Each time, they acted more aggressively and the number of violent incidents like stabbings increased.

Vaccines against the novel coronavirus are now available in the D.C. region. In the District, Maryland and Virginia, senior citizens and health-care workers are lining up for their shots, and many other groups of people — from grocery…

THERE WERE plenty of warnings about the potential for violence before last week’s murderous assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Trump seeking to disrupt congressional certification of Joe Biden’s election. Right-wing…

Moments after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the city would begin providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents ages 65 and older on Monday, many older adults were already running into tech troubles as they attempted to navigate the city’s…

When Vice President-elect Kamala Harris takes office next week, her alma mater will continue to celebrate her place in U.S. history.

Wardman Hotel Owner LLC, an affiliate of Pacific Life Insurance Co., has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and has ended its management contract with Marriott International.