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Two Texans are yearning to return to college in the nation’s capital after dreary months of waiting to hear whether the coronavirus closures would end. Like many students nationwide, they spent their…

Four men have been charged with destruction of federal property for allegedly trying to topple the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square, the Department of Justice announced Saturday.

Four men alleged to have been trying to tear down the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Square just outside of the White House were each charged with destruction of federal property on Friday,…

Four men have been charged in connection with an attempt to tear down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square, the U.S. attorney’s office for Washington announced Saturday evening.

Dr. William Strudwick was finishing a shift at Washington, D.C.'s Howard University Hospital when his wife, Maria, texted. Their 19-year old son, Cole, wanted to join a protest five days after the…

Temperatures in the 90s on Saturday tamped down some of the energy rolling through streets and parks around D.C. in the last week.

Black moms, their children, and other protesters stretched out their arms, took a depth breath, and made their way to a warrior two pose.

A familiar sound filled the air in D.C. on Saturday as the Washington National Cathedral’s bells rang for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic broke out in the U.S. back in March.

Downtown Washington blossomed into a rich celebration of black family and culture on Saturday, marking the sixth week of near-constant public expression in the District for racial justice.

The day after he was corralled by police onto a narrow street with no escape, arrested for breaking the District’s curfew while protesting the death of George Floyd, and then held for hours, Micah…

On the outside wall of a building in Northeast Washington, a mural shows a dark-skinned man with light hair riding an electric bike. An American flag, secured to his torso with a chain, flows behind…

When the United States celebrates its 244th birthday on Saturday, July 4, look for U.S. military aircraft to grace the skies of D.C. and Baltimore.

On April 14, 1876, Frederick Douglass arrived at the unveiling ceremony for the Emancipation Memorial, the statue now under attack by some protesters in Washington’s Lincoln Park.

Disagreement over the fate of a statue depicting Abraham Lincoln standing above a formerly enslaved man was the centerpiece of a Friday night protest on Capitol Hill.

It’s arrogant to think that the District somehow can avoid the public health disaster that is playing out in many states that have already reopened.

They know the only way they can sustain power is to give up on democracy.

D.C. officials on Wednesday will fence off Franklin Square to begin a year-long renovation of the park to make it “more user-friendly.” But the closure will also mean the displacement of the homeless…

Here I was thinking that all the rationales for voter suppression and denying representation (Is voting by mail good or to be forbidden at all costs? Is two senators for 700,000 people perfectly just…

The capital city is beginning to reopen as the House returns to session, despite delays in hiring and training city workers to track coronavirus cases.

Fierce arguments broke out by a statue of Abraham Lincoln in the nation’s capital on Friday night as dozens of protesters hoping to remove it confronted a handful of people eager to defend the…