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From the coronavirus to racial conflicts, it’s been a double gut-punch for America lately.

In pre-coronavirus times, a normal day for Marcy Hairston involved buzzing around Murch Elementary School in Northwest D.C. to check in on her roster of students with special needs.

When Hollie Wong came to D.C. in 1987 from Hong Kong, she missed the tea houses of her youth. They represented community and togetherness. She says when she was growing up, tea was offered at every social event. “When you come to my home,…

D.C. Council members opened a budget hearing Monday to repeated calls for defunding the Metropolitan Police Department amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

MPD's most recent police stop data indicates little has changed with the racial imbalance of stop and frisk in the District.

Proponents hope to secure a voting majority in both chambers of Congress in January 2021.

Plans for a new halfway house in D.C. are meeting growing resistance.

Impassioned pleas to defund the D.C. police were aired during a virtual public hearing held Monday by the D.C. Council committee considering the department’s proposed budget.

Starting Saturday, visitors will again be able to wander through the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden. The 6.1-acre garden is home to 21 modern artworks by artists including Ellsworth Kelly, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Roy…

With her Smithsonian ID card dangling from her neck, Dwandalyn Reece summoned the museum staff to almost exactly the spot where President Trump had stood days earlier, posing for a picture with a Bible.

Due to Covid-19, the DC music mainstay will stream concerts from big-name performers.

The rebranding is an effort to disassociate with colonialism.

D.C. elections officials mailed absentee ballots to every registered voter in Ward 2 for Tuesday’s special election for the ward’s council seat, hoping to avoid a repeat of the long lines and never-delivered ballots that marred the primary…

The death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis sparked cries from demonstrators in the District and across the country to “defund the police.” Now that movement is turning what once would have been a routine budget discussion…

"After talking with staff and customers, we've learned that the power of that word to hurt is real, no matter the justification for using it."

A local group is demanding action from D.C. leaders by holding a 36-hour sit-in at Freedom Plaza, across from Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office in the Wilson Building.

Vendors are calling for more transparency and inclusion at the Dupont FreshFarm Market.

After a less-than smooth vote-by-mail effort in the June 2 Democratic primary, the D.C. Board of Elections announced that it had mailed all registered Ward 2 voters a ballot for Tuesday’s Ward 2 D.C. Council special election. This differs…

When police contained protesters on the narrow residential street, multiple neighbors opened their homes to those in need.

D.C. continues to expand its testing capabilities, Mayor Muriel Bowser said at a news conference Monday, adding more walk-up sites.