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The West Building of the National Gallery of Art in D.C. will partially reopen Monday.

On Oct. 2, 2001, two years after he had taken ownership of the marquee NFL franchise in the nation’s capital, Daniel Snyder stood behind the lectern at the center of the head table at a National Press Club luncheon. He began with a speech…

In their heyday, the trucks drew hourlong lines of downtown office workers.

D.C. Central Kitchen has partnered with Maryland’s Flying Dog Brewery and enlisted top local chefs for a digital cookbook that will raise funds for the Kitchen’s COVID-19 response work.

Washington’s NFL franchise officially announced Monday it will drop its controversial nickname after 87 years, signaling the imminent end of an era in which the franchise was labeled with a dictionary-defined racial slur.

Starting on July 20, visitors will be allowed into parts of D.C.’s National Gallery of Art for the first time in four months. It is one of the first museums on the National Mall to reopen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and…

Seven people were killed in D.C. over the weekend, and now the homicide total in the District this year has passed 100. That’s 23% higher than where the city was at this time in 2019, when the D.C. murder rate was higher than it has been…

TWO YEARS after the National Congress of American Indians launched a campaign to combat harmful stereotypes of native people in media and popular culture, the University of Oklahoma retired its “Little Red” mascot. That was in 1970.…

How do arts organizations get back to business safely? The Washington Ballet stumbled with its online gala, which was streamed live from its studios June 18.

D.C. reported no deaths from COVID-19 for the fourth day in a row Monday, the longest stretch of days without related deaths since the District reported its first coronavirus-related death in March.

The D.C. government will conduct a citywide survey to study the spread of coronavirus antibodies throughout the District.

Washington’s football team is retiring its name, a racial slur for Native Americans. The logo will go, too. The news comes during a national reckoning on racial inequality and after corporate sponsors pushed the team to modify its…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The posters started blanketing light posts just a few weeks after the city entered what would be a monthslong stay-at-home order. Vividly colored and bearing a three-headed mushroom, they asked Washingtonians to “reform…

Washington's NFL team may rename itself for this very endangered species

Washington’s NFL franchise officially announced Monday it will drop its controversial nickname after 87 years, signaling the imminent end of an era in which the franchise was labeled with a dictionary-defined racial slur.

After a homicide in Fort Davis on Sunday, the District officially passed 100 homicides this year, according to Metropolitan Police Department data.

For as much debate as the Washington Redskins’ team name has generated over decades, there has been just as much contention in guessing, and attempting to profit from, what the new one will be.

The statement from the team uses the outgoing name seven times.

Washington’s NFL franchise has announced that it is retiring the Redskins name, and plans to introduce a new name soon.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington NFL franchise announced Monday it is dropping the “Redskins” name and Indian head logo, bowing to recent pressure from sponsors and decades of criticism that they are offensive to Native Americans.