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MPD is reporting 68 arrests last night.

In the relatively peaceful hours before a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, Washingtonians who want D.C. to become the 51st state had cause to celebrate.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser described the insurrection by pro-Trump extremists at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as “textbook terrorism,” and urged an investigation into the U.S. Capitol Police response to the events.

The Shaw residential pipeline may be growing by a handful.

Retired D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey said the leadership of Capitol Police “not only failed themselves, they failed the Capitol, and they failed the country,” by failing to prevent Wednesday’s takeover of “The People’s House” by…

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser used the national spotlight in the wake of the Capitol riot to advocate for D.C. statehood as city officials argued the local government helped save a branch of the federal government.

A fence will surround the U.S. Capitol for at least the next 30 days, Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy said today. The fencing follows an insurrection at the building on Wednesday, when President Trump supporters stormed through…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the U.S. Capitol Police defended his department’s response to the storming of the Capitol, saying Thursday that officers “acted valiantly when faced with thousands of individuals involved in violent riotous…

Peter Tracey, a 60-year-old White lawyer in D.C., admits he was triggered.

As a member of Congress, Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) is afforded a workplace befitting American democratic traditions — and one that’s secured accordingly, by its own police force with some 2,000 officers.

Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said he would expect to be fired, if he were still in charge Wednesday, when rioters broke windows, breached security and traipsed through “the people’s house” during a rally in support of…

The frozen margarita machine was churning and the tacos were ready for assembly at Tortilla Coast on Capitol Hill Wednesday when police suddenly evacuated the longstanding restaurant a block from the Cannon House Office Building and the…

The District will stay in a state of emergency until Jan. 21, the day after the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, after a mob supporting President Donald Trump invaded the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in an incident that left four…

Everyone — millions of people — saw this coming.

The storming of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Trump’s supporters on Wednesday was a disastrous failure of security: In a city on high alert, in a building with its own 2,000-officer police department, people forced their way into…

January 6, 2021, a day of infamy—and, before that, banality, nuttiness, menace, and sore feet.

"There will be law and order, and this behavior will not be tolerated," Mayor Bowser said

WASHINGTON (AP) — “Where are they?” a Trump supporter demanded in a crowd of dozens roaming the halls of the Capitol, bearing Trump flags and pounding on doors.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and forced lawmakers into hiding, in a stunning attempt to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the nation’s democracy and…

As President Trump told a sprawling crowd outside the White House that they should never accept defeat, hundreds of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in what amounted to an attempted coup that they hoped would overturn the election…