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The Anacostia residents sitting on their porches Saturday morning jumped up, yelped and clamored for selfies as if a celebrity was walking down their block.

When a coronavirus vaccination clinic set up in a nearby school in the Washington suburbs four weeks after her daughter became eligible for a shot, Meghan McCoy did not hesitate to bring in her…

District of Columbia, Virginia.

The newly declared federal holiday of Juneteenth dawned on a joyful, if muggy Washington Saturday, with denizens of the nation’s capital braving the heat to mark the moment at Black Lives Matter…

Across the entire city, more than 70% of the adult population in the District has received at least one COVID-19 vaccination.

A tax revenue windfall from legalized sports betting has yet to become reality in D.C.

When the National Gallery of Art finishes its multistage comeback with Friday’s reopening of its East Building, it will not require fully vaccinated visitors to wear masks, and it will not seek proof…

On the morning of the museum reopening, Kirk Johnson is almost as excited as the kids lined up outside. “I am just so happy,” says Johnson, the Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of…

When D.C. Superior Court Judge Marisa Demeo first applied for a job in the Justice Department in 1993, FBI agents showed up at her parents’ home to confirm that she had come out to them as gay.

A federal judge ruled that D.C. must provide incarcerated students with their legally mandated special-education services, which the students allege the city’s school system has not delivered during…

D.C. schools are developing a plan that will address the learning loss that happened over the pandemic, and it will be a plan that will meet kids where they are in their learning.

A Republican congressman from Wisconsin introduced legislation this week that would ban D.C. schools from teaching critical race theory — the academic framework that examines the way policies and…

A new report by advocates for the mentally ill alleges patient mistreatment and staff misconduct at a Northwest Washington psychiatric hospital that resulted in the mass arrest of teenagers and the…

When Rachel Mann bought a townhouse in Valley Terrace about a decade ago, she loved the tall trees on Oxon Run Parkway, right behind her house.

Two months after students inside the D.C. Jail filed suit against the city for failing to provide them federally mandated education during the pandemic, the D.C. public schools chancellor is…

Raymond Kim knew his time was up long before his landlord hung a “For Sale” on the building where he took over a wholesale meat, chicken and seafood shop 13 years ago.

Early on Friday morning, a Metro train arrived.

Faced with an unexpected day off on Friday to commemorate Juneteenth, Washingtonians joined tourists at public monuments and museums to reflect on the country’s painful history of slavery and its…

In her latest push to get D.C. residents vaccinated against the coronavirus, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has announced a new incentive: $51 Visa gift cards.

D.C. Public Schools closed Friday for Juneteenth, America’s newest federal holiday, but the last-minute decision surprised and frustrated some parents.