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It looks like “Never” is now.

Washington's NFL team said Monday morning it plans to retire its controversial nickname, a moniker many consider racist to Native Americans.

Washington’s NFL team has announced its intention to change its name for the first time in 87 years. What’s the new name? Well, the team says that will come later.

Tortilla Coast, the Tex-Mex restaurant popular with Capitol Hill staffers, interns and politicians, faces a possible closure.

Personally, I’m happy about the change. I will be able to root for the team guilt-free. But it’s also worthwhile to reflect on why it’s happening now. The name has drawn significant public criticism for nearly 50 years, yet Snyder…

Trade associations are opposing a new sales tax on advertising in the District, saying the 3% levy will only further hurt businesses already devastated by the economic recession created by the coronavirus pandemic.

There have been 94 homicides in 2020, compared to 80 at this same time in 2019. That’s an increase of 18 percent.

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — The D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs has informed vendors along Black Lives Matter Plaza, they will no longer be able to set up shop starting Monday.

The Ward 8 Peace Rally Drive was organized in support of police, asking for more investigative work to be done to find justice for murdered children.

The Washington Redskins plan to announce Monday morning that they will change their team name, three people with knowledge of the situation confirmed Sunday night. The team is not expected to reveal a new name until a later date.

Just less than two weeks after one of his most prominent corporate sponsors urged him to change the name of his football team, Washington owner Daniel Snyder plans to announce the retirement of the "Redskins" nickname and reveal a new team…

Two suspects in the conflict that left 11-year-old Davon McNeal dead in Southeast D.C. on the night of July 4 remain on the loose, and McNeal’s grandfather said there’s only one thing for them to do: give themselves up.

About 150 red electric Jump bikes will be out on the streets of D.C. again starting Monday.

Two people were killed in shootings in the District early Sunday, adding to an already violent month in the city, police said.

Former ballerina Julie Kent, one of American Ballet Theatre’s most esteemed stars and the artistic director of the Washington Ballet, recently contracted covid-19. Kent announced her diagnosis in an Instagram post Saturday, which is also…

WASHINGTON (AP) — “Excuse me, can I ask what you’re doing here?” a resident in a southeast Washington neighborhood asks as Sean Kennedy and Erin Gleeson get out of their truck and scour the streets.

TWO YEARS ago on July 16, 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson was shot and killed on her way to buy ice cream in her Northeast D.C. neighborhood. Last July, 11-year-old Karon Brown was fatally shot while running away from a fight that had broken…

In the short, out-of-focus video, Davon McNeal stands in front of a whiteboard fastened to a blue wall and speaks about courage.

The children marching for Davon McNeal through the darkened streets of historic Anacostia this week shouted, “Kids’ Lives Matter.” Adults implored the crowd: “What. Is. His. Name?” to a thunderous ovation of “Davon.”

Hundreds of family, friends, and supporters gathered in Anacostia on Thursday to honor and remember 11-year-old Davon McNeal, who was shot and killed during a Fourth of July celebration in Cedar Gardens, where he used to live.