On Monday, a man who traditionally worships on Sundays at the Chapel of the 3-Iron tried to use our church, St. John’s Episcopal Church, as a backdrop. Like a character right out of “Elmer Gantry,”!-->…
As thousands gathered outside Lafayette Square next to the White House on Tuesday afternoon, kneeling and chanting against police brutality, others set up camp on the outer rim of the masses with!-->…
Leaders in the District and Maryland are calling for top elections officials to resign after botched delivery of absentee ballots, and polling places shuttered because of the coronavirus, led to!-->…
Shared workspace provider WeWork has temporarily closed two of its locations in the District and pulled staff from other sites in D.C. amid days of protests surrounding the death of George Floyd.
It was an inauspicious start to an election season: Only days after the D.C. Board of Elections announced in late March that it would try and conduct a majority of the June 2 primary by mail, a!-->…
The District is making free personal protective equipment starter kits available to D.C. businesses, and the District’s Business Improvement Districts are distributing them.
Incumbent Brandon Todd appears to have lost the Democratic primary for the Ward 4 seat on D.C. Council, with Janeese Lewis George holding more than 54% of the vote, according to the unofficial!-->…
Janeese Lewis George, a left-leaning lawyer who used to work for D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D), has defeated incumbent Ward 4 Council member Brandon T. Todd in the Democratic primary,!-->…
After an election night marked by wait times stretching past four or five hours at polling sites, Janeese Lewis George appears to have bested incumbent Brandon Todd in Ward 4 in the Democratic!-->…
More than half the 1,300 inmates at the D.C. Jail have been tested for COVID-19, with 304 having been tested on a single day in late May as corrections officials have continued battling a simmering!-->…
A Georgetown University report released Tuesday says a “legacy of inequality” is partly to blame for black District residents living several years less than white residents and for a higher rate of!-->…
As police aggressively sought to disperse protesters on Monday night, at least two helicopters flew unusually close to the ground, in what aviators called a “show of force.” Onlookers noticed one of!-->…
Just before 9 p.m. on Tuesday night, the D.C. National Guard made its first original tweet since early March, asserting that its Commanding General, Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, will investigate why!-->…