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The Metropolitan Police Department will close a number of city streets on Saturday and Sunday, as D.C. gears up for its third-straight weekend of protests against police violence in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.

An annual count of homeless people in the Washington region tallied the fewest number of individuals sleeping outdoors or in emergency or transitional shelters since the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments began the exercise in…

Sweeping legislation swiftly passed by the D.C. Council this week to bring greater accountability and transparency to the District’s police force will expand civilian review, make it far easier to fire officers and tweak rules governing…

Metro service appears set to ramp up later this summer. Metro is currently operating at about 35% of normal peak service, with plans to jump to 70 to 80% levels in its next reopening phase.

Maboud Ebrahimzadeh is one of the lucky ones.

This past weekend Metro added 136 more daily bus trips spread across a dozen heavily-traveled routes to help keep up with ridership demand.

Like many people right now, Corey Cappelloni misses his grandmother, but because of the coronavirus pandemic, he can’t really go visit her to say hello.

Holding an iPad provided by the nurses inside the Allied Services Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Scranton, Pa., and done up for the occasion of her first FaceTime call, 98-year-old Ruth Andres stared into the screen and…

Booms and bangs were everywhere. The air was acrid with pepper spray, marijuana and sage — the peace goddesses were trying to purify the protesters by burning sage.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Almost as soon as the towering black fencing was erected last week to seal off Lafayette Park, the barrier became an art gallery and a sounding board for the demonstrators protesting years of black deaths at the hands of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s use of smoke bombs and pepper balls to rout civil rights demonstrators from Lafayette Park near the White House has emboldened protesters and added a new chapter to the site’s storied history as…

Images and stories from this weekend's protests against anti-black racism and police brutality.

Teachers of the year are at the top of their field. They’re content experts, creative thinkers and relationship builders. But online education? Turns out even they struggle with it.

Brooke Pinto had no business winning the Ward 2 Democratic primary race. How did she win the seat in a field of experienced candidates?

It has become a biannual event in the nation’s capital since its inception back in 1994.

In the middle of coronavirus-related measures, there has been big jump in bicycle sales in April. And D.C.-area bike shops have been struggling to keep up with the demand.

In a situation markedly different than what initially transpired between police officers and protesters in the wake of George Floyd’s death, hundreds of thousands of people of various races peacefully converged on portions of the…

Sakira Coleman came down to Black Lives Matter Plaza to organize the crowd and give the movement a burst of energy. “It’s exhausting. This is our thirteenth day protesting out here,” she said. But “it’s just business as usual now. It takes…

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 only includes 7.85 million in local funding for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP). This is $15,000 less than what was approved last year for the current budget.

Latavia Huntley brought her 3-year-old son Tariq to the stretch of H Street lining Lafayette Square Wednesday morning and said they spent about two hours walking where protesters marched days before.