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Protesters continued to gather Friday around D.C. a month after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

After more than 100 D.C. firefighters survived COVID-19, many are now donating their plasma to help patients struggling to fight the virus in the hospital.

Fresh off passing emergency legislation that “radically” rethinks how D.C. conducts public safety, Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen increased the pressure on D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham on…

Before Friday, the last time Congress considered the question of the District of Columbia becoming a state was 27 years ago. The measure failed in 1993 by nearly a 2-to-1 margin, with all but one…

THE HOUSE of Representatives voted Friday to make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state. It was a signature moment, the first time in history that a chamber of Congress has formally…

Or, why it took New Mexico 62 years to become state.

D.C. lawmakers this week took their first step toward reducing the role of police in the city’s public schools, amid pressure from protesters here and around the country to remove law enforcement…

The House on Friday passed a bill giving the District of Columbia statehood, the first time either chamber of Congress has passed any bill that would make the nation’s capital a state.

Mary McLeod Bethune, a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Black Cabinet,” stands on a memorial with two children alongside her in Lincoln Park. An educator who founded the National Council…

On Friday afternoon, the House of Representatives took a first, if symbolic, step toward granting statehood to the District of Columbia, passing HR 51 on a largely partisan vote of 232-180.

It comes from a guy liberals think of as one of Congress' biggest buffoons.

In a city clamoring for both more public outdoor space and better representation in public institutions, the opening of Alethia Tanner Park couldn’t come at a more opportune moment.

Founder Mary Blackford is a finalist for a $100,000 grant for her upcoming venture in Benning Market.

During an appearance on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on Friday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser touched on one of the hot-button issues that initially ignited her now-infamous frays with President Donald Trump,…

The emergency COVID legislation that the DC Council passed in April required mortgage lenders to offer deferrals to property owners, and for those property owners to be transparent and pass that same…

It's a step in the right direction, but don't expect you'll get a voting member of Congress anytime soon.

The long-promised redevelopment of the Park Morton public housing complex is now facing further delays.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House approved a bill Friday to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, saying Congress has both the moral obligation and constitutional authority to…

The U.S. House on Friday approved legislation to make D.C. the 51st state in the United States.

For the first time since the establishment of the District of Columbia 230 years ago, the House of Representatives voted to declare the city as the nation’s 51st state, a legislative milestone that…