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DC joined with 16 states yesterday in filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration for blocking access to federal education funds granted to help schools, teachers and students recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and other DC officials today marked the opening of the first new full-service hospital in the District since 2002, when George Washington University Hospital debuted its brand-new facility to replace an outdated…

Mayor Muriel Bowser today outlined plans for the District's 20th annual celebration of DC Emancipation Day since its designation as an official local holiday.

With support from a coalition of local venues and others in the music industry, Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen today announced the introduction of a new bill to prevent price gouging on tickets for live performances being sold on…

Noting that it's been more than a week since President Donald Trump called on the House to vote promptly on a Senate-approved spending fix for the District, Mayor Muriel Bowser once again urged the House to schedule a vote on the measure…

A federal judge yesterday temporarily blocked $11 billion in public health cuts in a lawsuit brought by the District along with 23 states.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Pamela Smith today announced the launch of a new Juvenile Investigative Response Unit within the Metropolitan Police Department in an effort to respond more effectively to youth-involved crime citywide.…

A Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee announced plans last night to place a hold on the nomination of Ed Martin to serve as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia — and the committee's other Democrats today called…

The DC Council voted 10-2 this afternoon to approve emergency legislation to create new exceptions to the District's open meetings law, although Chair Phil Mendelson's amended proposal did narrow the provisions allowing site visits and…

The DC Council is expected to vote at Tuesday's legislative meeting on emergency legislation to amend the District's open meetings law to provide new exceptions that Council Chair Phil Mendelson describes as necessary in part to enable…

Weeks after proclaiming a need to take over aspects of DC's governance, President Donald Trump yesterday signed an executive order to establish a federal task force to foster his campaign pledges to make the nation's capital "safe and…

Uncertainty in the House over the fate of legislation to avoid forcing the District to make $1 billion in mid-year spending cuts is leading to delays in the preparation and release of Mayor Muriel Bowser's proposed budget for fiscal year…

The GOP-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted 23-21 yesterday to advance legislation that would nullify any DC laws, policies and practices that limit the local government's cooperation with federal immigration…

The company already operating self-driving taxis in cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin is looking to bring its autonomous ride-hailing service to DC by 2026, vowing in an announcement this morning to continue working with…

Mayor Muriel Bowser expressed confidence today that the House of Representatives will vote on the measure already approved by the Senate to undo $1 billion in DC spending cuts mandated under the congressionally approved continuing…

Mayor Muriel Bowser and other local officials are celebrating the Senate's passage of a bill to allow the District to spend according to its approved budget — thereby averting $1 billion in cuts midway through fiscal year 2025 as long as…

DC Council members Christina Henderson, Janeese Lewis George and Zachary Parker were among those pushing the District's case on Capitol Hill this morning by visiting Senate offices ahead of today's debate on the stopgap funding bill that…

Virginia and Maryland senators are speaking out against the $1 billion in spending cuts that would be forced on the DC government by the stopgap spending bill approved by the House this week to avoid a government shutdown.

After House passage late yesterday afternoon of a stop-gap spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, DC leaders are turning to the Senate as they seek to undo a requirement that would force projected cuts of $1 billion to the…

A united front among District officials wasn't enough yesterday to sway the House Rules Committee to authorize a floor vote on DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton's proposed amendment to the stop-gap spending bill — an effort by Norton to remove…

In response to the stop-gap spending measure introduced by House GOP leaders over the weekend, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is pushing for an amendment to the overall package to avoid forcing the District to revert to last year's spending…

DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb has joined his counterparts in 19 states in filing a new lawsuit that seeks to stop mass firings of probationary employees in multiple federal agencies.

"They're not ordering us to do anything," Mayor Muriel Bowser said today in response to reporters' characterizations of President Donald Trump's social media post yesterday calling for her to "clean up all of the unsightly homeless…

Mayor Muriel Bowser held a "teletownhall" this morning to discuss the broad impact of federal job losses on the local economy, saying she is prioritizing efforts to address the projected loss in revenue and minimize the disruptive effects.…

Amid a tight budget environment confirmed Friday by the chief financial officer's reduced revenue projections, Mayor Muriel Bowser today announced a proposed 2.7% increase in fiscal year 2026 to the funding formula that provides a basis…

The District's independent chief financial officer delivered new revenue estimates on Friday evening that include a $21.6 million reduction from his December projection for the current fiscal year and an average drop of $342.1 million over…

Unemployment claims rose dramatically last week in the District, exacerbating worries about the local economic impact from the Trump administration's continuing efforts to curb spending and reduce the size of the federal workforce.

The National Park Service is projecting peak bloom for the Tidal Basin's 3,500 cherry trees between March 28 and 31, a bit later that last year but still earlier than the historical norm.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is making headlines again today with his announcement of a "significant shift" in its opinion section that led the editorial page editor to resign his post rather than implement the mandated changes.

Higher education institutions generate more than $6 billion of economic activity in DC and another $9 billion elsewhere in the region, according to a new report from the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area.