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Lawyers for a man caught on video being punched multiple times by a D.C. police officer on Sunday while being restrained by two other officers are calling for them to be fired.

The 23-year-old man punched by D.C. police as they arrested him Sunday in Southeast Washington was left with a broken nose, multiple fractures in his face and possible neurological damage, according…

How D.C. was the first gerrymandered district and Hamilton politically spun away your congressional representation.

A young Black man who was repeatedly punched by a D.C. police officer has secured legal representation and is asking that the officers involved in his arrest be criminally charged.

The Washington Metrorail Safety Commission said Friday that Metro workers are regularly flouting required safety checks and failing to get necessary certification or approvals when they work on the…

D.C. Housing Authority board chairman Neil Albert, apparently, was in a hurry this morning. During a last-minute, emergency meeting in which the DCHA board of commissioners voted to give interim…

D.C. Public Schools plans to test 10% of students for COVID-19 every week, officials said during a Friday call with the Council.

Jane Baber had stopped dating completely.

Two photojournalists who covered a protest at D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Plaza against police brutality last August are suing the District and eight members of the police, claiming officers used…

The District’s teacher evaluation system is not pushing effective teachers out of the classroom in significant numbers, according to a city-commissioned study released Friday. But the study found…

The DC Housing Authority board of commissioners voted 7-2 Friday morning to authorize a two-year contract for Brenda Donald, the former chief of D.C.’s child welfare agency, to lead the city’s…

Unvaccinated D.C. residents can now request to get a shot at home, according to updated guidance from officials.

Commuters returning to Metro for the first time might be surprised to have a lot more money on their SmarTrip card than they should — and even more surprised when that dollar amount drops suddenly.

D.C. has long been cast as a homogenous haven of progressive values, a trope quickly refuted the moment you observe any of D.C.’s 40 advisory neighborhood commissions convene.

Could a car-free Rock Creek Park become D.C.'s version of New York’s Central Park? Yes — or an even better version. At 1,754 acres, Rock Creek is more than twice the size of Central Park’s 843 acres.…

Although the 2020 Census counted fewer DC residents than anticipated, new population counts for the city's wards are not quite as surprising.

Student-athletes across D.C. have been waiting for information about how they’ll play and practice this season given the rise in the delta variant of COVID-19. A day after that guidance was released,…

Maryland, one of the two states in the country to flip from majority White to majority non-White over the last decade, is now the most diverse state on the East Coast, according to new data from the…

The lawsuit also asserts police wrongfully held a photojournalist overnight and refused to return his cellphone, camera and goggles for nearly a year.

The D.C. chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of two photojournalists, alleging that Metropolitan Police Department officers used chemical irritants and…