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A new exhibit in D.C. highlights the Black Lives Matter movement that people can view while walking through Gallery Place.

After being deployed during large-scale protests that have swept the District for nearly two weeks, members of the D.C. National Guard have tested positive for the coronavirus.

As two Washington theater companies announced Tuesday they will not be back on their stages for the rest of 2020, a third affirmed that it hopes to restart live performances in August.

Before the pandemic, Loyalty Bookstore had seen about 50 online orders a week since its new website launched in October. When physical stores shut down in mid-March due to the pandemic, that number jumped to 300 to 400 per week.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser about "BLACK LIVES MATTER" road banner painted near the White House and the police in D.C. and around the country.

The D.C. Council approved emergency legislation Tuesday afternoon that includes sweeping police reforms. Council members voted unanimously to approve the bill.

DC Attorney General Karl Racine filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA).

As protests over the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other black people at the hands of police continue in D.C. and across the U.S., many protesters are beginning to ask: What comes next?

The Post followed five demonstrators through one day. Turn your sound on for the full experience.

Two months after Events DC, the District’s sports, entertainment, and conventions authority, set aside $5 million for undocumented workers who were laid off or furloughed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the D.C. Council on Tuesday approved…

Certain areas around the White House, including the Ellipse and parts of Lafayette Square, are scheduled to reopen this week, the National Park Service says. The perimeter around the White House expanded dramatically in the last week as…

One of the nation’s oldest apparel chains will not return to Georgetown in D.C.

As projects at The Yards move through the pipeline, Brookfield Properties and Ironstate Development are teaming up to propose a residential-and-retail development across the street from Nationals Park.

Seven streets in D.C. are now all but closed outside traffic so that the people who live there can safely enjoy some outdoor space during the coronavirus pandemic.

The crowd swarming the fence north of the White House turned its attention from the rows of riot police on the other side of the barrier to one of their own. A young man had scaled the street sign at 16th and H streets last Tuesday night…

By 4 p.m. Monday, Black Lives Matter Plaza was less crowded than it has been since it got its new name Friday. After a surge of demonstrators over the weekend, it seemed like the 11th consecutive day of protests in D.C. proved to be one…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that she had no plans to defund the police department, despite calls to do so around the city and across the country in response to George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.

LeBron James retweeted her. Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis posed for pictures with her. “Morning Joe” wanted her on MSNBC.

For much of the past two years, two corrections companies dueling over a federal contract have sown confusion over where District men returning from prison will live.