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When Teaism co-owner Michelle Brown learned around midnight last night that her restaurant next to the White House was on fire, she got in her car and drove over there. The area was blocked off, and a police officer told her she couldn’t…

“I don’t think we have any interest in it being about us. Because it’s not about us. It’s so much bigger."

Crowds protesting the killing of George Floyd clashed with U.S. Secret Service, Park Police and D.C. police officers in the nation’s capital Saturday afternoon and evening, the second outburst of violent confrontations in less than 24…

A day of protests in the District prompted by the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd earlier this week continued into Saturday night.

Large-scale protests over the death of George Floyd erupted for a second day on Saturday in D.C., with clashes between law enforcement and protesters escalating dramatically as the night went on.

On a recent morning at a free walk-up coronavirus testing site in the District of Columbia, blue-gowned workers wearing face shields and masks often stood by with nothing to do. They mostly outnumbered those seeking tests.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser took to the press Saturday to respond to President Donald Trump’s tweets about protests Friday night in front of the White House.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called out claims made Saturday by President Donald Trump that many Secret Service agents were “just waiting for action” and ready to unleash “the most vicious dogs, and the most ominous weapons, I have ever seen”…

Sparked by the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd, Protests erupted across the United States yesterday. Citizens gathered in DC to speak out and voice their anger. Late into the night, Washingtonian photographer Evy Mages captured tense…

The District’s entrance into legalized gambling — by way of legalized sports betting — only adds to the gambling industry’s heavy growth throughout the D.C. region.

Hours after uniformed Secret Service agents clashed with demonstrators outside the White House, President Trump on Saturday used Twitter to praise their restraint but also to accuse the District’s mayor of refusing to allow her police…

Mayor Muriel Bowser is forcefully refuting President Donald Trump’s accusation that she declined to allow D.C. police officers to respond to intense protests outside the White House over the death of George Floyd on Saturday night.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine asked those taking part in his office’s Cure the Streets violence disruption program to observe a moment of silence for the family of George Floyd, a black man who died while being arrested by a white…

Protesters in D.C. expressing their anger over George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer converged on the streets around the White House Friday night, at times clashing with Secret Service officials.

Since mid-March, Giant Food has offered its store employees a 10% bump in weekly pay in recognition of their work on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. Despite calls from the union representing Giant employees in the D.C. region,…

Protests in D.C. over the killing of George Floyd continued in the early hours of Saturday morning with a tense standoff between protesters and police outside of the White House.

Martha Wilson was not your average church lady.

On Tuesday, 11-year-old Taj Young was very surprised to see all four of his 5th-grade teachers from Murch Elementary School in Northwest D.C. on his front lawn.

Several hundred people gathered outside the White House in two successive tense and confrontational demonstrations occurring hours apart on Friday, both of them protesting the death of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police…

Hundreds of demonstrators moved through D.C. Friday night, marching, chanting, holding a vigil, and, at one point, blocking highway traffic. They join a nationwide outpouring of rage and grief over the death of George Floyd, a black man…