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By noon, people were descending on the streets around the White House from all directions, a billowing crowd that included demonstrators hoisting “Black lives matter” signs and American flags.

More than 10,000 people poured into the nation’s capital on the ninth day of protests over police brutality, but what awaited this sprawling crowd — the largest yet in Washington — was a city that no longer felt as if it was being occupied…

The first night of major unrest in Washington had exploded in chaos on May 29, with protesters and Secret Service officers battling outside the White House. At 8:30 the next morning, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and her senior aides huddled on a…

Washington's new BLACK LIVES MATTER street mural is so huge, you can see it from space.

Brooke Pinto has secured the Democratic nomination to represent Ward 2 on the D.C. Council, rocketing from an unknown 28-year-old political newcomer to the likely successor to the District’s longest-serving lawmaker.

A company that plans to open a halfway house for as many as 300 men in Northeast Washington won a $64 million federal contract Thursday after months of uncertainty about where D.C. prisoners returning home will live.

Protesters arriving in the nation’s capital for the ninth consecutive day of demonstrations found the White House encircled by more than a mile of tall metal fencing.

After a week of daily demonstrations, clashes with the president, and occupation from federal law enforcement agencies, the District is expecting to see its largest day of protests yet today.

Thousands of protesters came out despite oppressive heat Saturday to protest against police brutality in D.C. It was the largest day of demonstrations since the May 25 killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.

As D.C. remains in Phase One of its reopening plan, nightclubs and concert venues are seeking financial help to get by until they can open their doors again.

After eight days of protests in the District over the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, officials are preparing for the week’s biggest demonstration in Washington.

Kiesha Davis had no idea that the boy who sat near her in sixth grade couldn’t read.

A new halfway house for men returning to D.C. from federal prison will be allowed to open in Ward 7 this fall, following an extended contract dispute that left the future of reentry services in the District in limbo for more than a year.

All week, as protesters have poured into the streets to demand that police stop killing black people, President Trump has raged about the refusal of governors and mayors to order National Guard troops to quash the demonstrations.

After a week of protests for George Floyd, the black man who was killed by Minneapolis police on May 25, D.C. is expecting to enter its ninth day of protests on Saturday — which officials anticipate to draw the largest crowd sizes since…

The start of the Capital Pride Celebration would have been Friday, but with the event postponed by the pandemic, some would-be participants are putting their efforts into the ongoing D.C. protests.

About 900 active-duty troops in the D.C. region have received orders to return to bases in New York and North Carolina, according to a press call with Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy.

D-Day in D.C. this 2020 was nothing like D-Day on June 6, 1944, when American-led forces landed on beaches in Normandy. The District’s D-Day actually occurred days earlier, when the White House ordered the invasion of Washington, D.C., by…

Cloaked by the shadow of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Antonio Watson, a 24-year-old recruit officer with the D.C. police, bowed his head in silence. He thought about the early hours on Monday, when he processed the arrests of one…

On an especially chaotic night, the U.S. Army flew one of its helicopters so low that trash, signs, and branches whipped around people protesting George Floyd’s killing in Chinatown. It was a scare tactic that the military uses in combat…