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WASHINGTON — Two weeks after President Donald Trump posed for a photo op in front of St. John's Church, Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde invited other interfaith leaders to hold a joint prayer vigil at…

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Families grieving those they've lost to COVID-19 took part in a community day of remembrance Sunday in order to begin the healing process.

Almost every day since the weather began to warm, Tony Ponte had driven his taxi past the volleyball courts near the Lincoln Memorial, hoping to see the players he befriended across years of watching…

The moment I decided to create Black Lives Matter Plaza was when I came face to face with a line of federal police blocking a street in my legal jurisdiction. I was downtown with members of my…

Black Lives Matter Plaza was turned into a church Sunday morning, with thousands of mostly African American churchgoers praying, protesting, kneeling and dancing near the White House after marching…

Since demonstrations against racial inequality and police brutality erupted two weeks ago in the District, more than 400 people have been arrested, most for curfew violations or looting, and city law…

The U.S. Secret Service now says that it used pepper spray while clearing protesters from Lafayette Square on June 1 before the president’s photo-op outside St. John’s Church, a reversal from…

Starting Monday, four more fire stations will start to give free coronavirus testing to anyone who wants a test.

THE D.C. Council last week adopted sweeping emergency legislation aimed at reforming police practices — and came in for some swift criticism. Officials of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s administration and…

The District reported a new peak in community spread of the coronavirus on Saturday, moving the city back from 11 days of sustained decline to nine.

We all know why the patch of real estate just north of the White House has been in the news lately.

An increase in drownings in the Potomac River has led local fire departments to remind swimmers that it is not only dangerous but illegal to swim in certain areas.

Federal authorities announced a reward last week in a fourth fire they said was set in the District during disorder that followed protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Dozens of protesters descended Saturday evening on the Northwest D.C. home of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), demanding that she defund the police as they chanted and danced to music at what they called…

While large swaths of downtown D.C. were closed to vehicular traffic and largely free of the big protests the city has seen over the last two weeks, a livelier scene was to be found on the small…

In a statement released Saturday, the U.S. Secret Service admitted to using pepper spray to disperse the crowd of protesters at the north side of Lafayette Square on June 1.

Using the hashtag #YouthSpeakUp, hundreds of parents and their children gathered in the District Saturday for a discussion and a walk from Freedom Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue to Black Lives Matter…

WASHINGTON - In a video address to the D.C. Police force this week, Chief Peter Newsham said the District's City Council “forgot about our 20 years of reform…. and insinuated that somehow the…

Washington: The residents of America’s capital wear their politics on their licence plates. Spend any time in the District of Columbia and you’ll notice vehicles everywhere bearing the slogan:…

Gallaudet University’s oldest fraternity has been suspended from campus after members were identified wearing prohibited ceremonial robes that resemble Ku Klux Klan garb, officials said.