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Washington’s football team is retiring its name, a racial slur for Native Americans. The logo will go, too. The news comes during a national reckoning on racial inequality and after corporate…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The posters started blanketing light posts just a few weeks after the city entered what would be a monthslong stay-at-home order. Vividly colored and bearing a three-headed…

Washington's NFL team may rename itself for this very endangered species

Washington’s NFL franchise officially announced Monday it will drop its controversial nickname after 87 years, signaling the imminent end of an era in which the franchise was labeled with a…

After a homicide in Fort Davis on Sunday, the District officially passed 100 homicides this year, according to Metropolitan Police Department data.

For as much debate as the Washington Redskins’ team name has generated over decades, there has been just as much contention in guessing, and attempting to profit from, what the new one will be.

The statement from the team uses the outgoing name seven times.

Washington’s NFL franchise has announced that it is retiring the Redskins name, and plans to introduce a new name soon.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington NFL franchise announced Monday it is dropping the “Redskins” name and Indian head logo, bowing to recent pressure from sponsors and decades of criticism that they are…

It looks like “Never” is now.

Washington's NFL team said Monday morning it plans to retire its controversial nickname, a moniker many consider racist to Native Americans.

Washington’s NFL team has announced its intention to change its name for the first time in 87 years. What’s the new name? Well, the team says that will come later.

Tortilla Coast, the Tex-Mex restaurant popular with Capitol Hill staffers, interns and politicians, faces a possible closure.

Personally, I’m happy about the change. I will be able to root for the team guilt-free. But it’s also worthwhile to reflect on why it’s happening now. The name has drawn significant public criticism…

Trade associations are opposing a new sales tax on advertising in the District, saying the 3% levy will only further hurt businesses already devastated by the economic recession created by the…

There have been 94 homicides in 2020, compared to 80 at this same time in 2019. That’s an increase of 18 percent.

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — The D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs has informed vendors along Black Lives Matter Plaza, they will no longer be able to set up shop starting Monday.

The Ward 8 Peace Rally Drive was organized in support of police, asking for more investigative work to be done to find justice for murdered children.

The Washington Redskins plan to announce Monday morning that they will change their team name, three people with knowledge of the situation confirmed Sunday night. The team is not expected to reveal…

Just less than two weeks after one of his most prominent corporate sponsors urged him to change the name of his football team, Washington owner Daniel Snyder plans to announce the retirement of the…