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A noose was found hanging from a tree Friday morning at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill. The church’s rector, the Reverend Michele Morgan, says a local choir was getting ready to rehearse…

D.C. will hand out $66 million in loans to support nine projects that could someday result in the construction or preservation of 1,100 affordable homes.

School officials in D.C., Maryland and Virginia say they plan to adopt revised school reopening guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The guidance reduces the recommended…

Chefs Stopping AAPI Hate, which launched in early March, is snowballing into a big national effort.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Maj. Gen. William Walker, commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, was tapped Friday to become the House’s first African American sergeant-at-arms as Congress…

Some people who have been receiving unemployment benefits in D.C. were not able to file on Sunday. As a result, they did not receive weekly compensation that many depend on to afford housing and…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that she is appointing Major General William J. Walker, the current head of the D.C. National Guard, to serve as the 38th House sergeant-at-arms. Walker…

The Lonesome Dove author saw himself as "essentially a bookseller."

Georgetown University has scored a $100 million donation from sports businessman Frank McCourt. It’s the second $100 million gift from the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose record pledge…

The District of Columbia will not receive extra vaccine doses or assistance setting up a mass vaccination site from the federal government, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said…

Eight years ago, the Georgetown Business Improvement District (BID) proposed creating an aerial gondola system that would ferry passengers between Georgetown and Virginia.

Townhomes are the next piece of new construction on tap for the massive redevelopment of the Walter Reed campus in Northwest D.C.

“They plan to make the District of Columbia a state — that would give them two new Democratic senators,” said then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), explaining his opposition to D.C.…

REPUBLICANS IN Congress did not use to make the case that residents of the District of Columbia deserved no representation in Congress; the issue was only how to do it. “Let’s be real, how can you…

The first Federal Aviation Administration noise survey in nearly 30 years found more people are bothered by aircraft noise than before, even as planes have gotten quieter.

U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh visited the Bright Start Early Care & Preschool Thursday to discuss federal aid for small businesses.

The District’s crime lab erroneously concluded bullet casings found at the scenes of two fatal shootings were fired from the same gun, then sought to minimize the mistake, according to a panel of…

Cut ties with MPD, virtual events, and simmering tension

Acting Chief Robert Contee hedges on his previous pledge of transparency in use of force investigations.

I am an Indigenous female elder descended from the Pamunkey and the Tauxenent (Dogue) tribes. Both tribal nations were historic members of the Powhatan Paramountcy, which stretched all the way from…