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The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to block a D.C. bill that overhauls the city’s century-old criminal code, sending the first congressional disapproval of a local bill in three decades to President Biden, who has said he won’t veto it.

The former interim director of D.C.’s Office of Unified Communications, the agency that oversees the city’s 911 calls, filed suit against D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser this month for alleged retaliation after she spoke up about “dangerous…

President Joe Biden’s support of a Republican resolution to block new District of Columbia crime laws has split members of his own party amid rising concerns about crime in the nation’s capital and other cities.

Ahead of the Senate's scheduled vote this afternoon to block the District's Revised Criminal Code Act, advocates of DC home rule and statehood rallied and marched on Capitol Hill to speak out against congressional interference under…

The U.S. Senate will debate and vote on a measure on Wednesday afternoon that would block the D.C. bill overhauling the city’s criminal code. The disapproval resolution — which was already passed by the House — is expected to pass with…

D.C. statehood advocates plan to rally on Wednesday in opposition to a vote by the Senate on whether to reject D.C.’s criminal code revamp, even as more Democratic senators said they planned to join Republicans in overturning the measure. …

A bill that would loosen restrictions on street vending has taken a major step forward in the D.C. Council Tuesday, as it was voted to advance.

The U.S. Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on whether it will formally strike down a controversial overhaul of D.C’s criminal code.

The Council also unanimously approved a bill to designate a portion of Good Hope Road SE as Marion Barry Avenue

A former Union Kitchen employee and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 400, the labor organization that represents current employees, has filed a wage theft lawsuit against the food incubator and retailer. The lawsuit comes…

Over two days of emotional testimony from residents, community organizers, and gun violence prevention activists this month, one theme came up again and again: “the system is broken.”

The DC Council gave initial approval this afternoon to legislation long sought by a coalition of street vendors to make it easier for them to operate in the District.

The D.C. Council bowed to bipartisan pressure on Monday by attempting to withdraw sweeping changes to the city's criminal code that the Senate appears on track to block later this week.

The embattled agency is recovering from internal and external audits that identified failures throughout the agency and millions in misspent funds.

The D.C. Council is withdrawing a sweeping rewrite of the capital city’s criminal code from consideration, just before a U.S. Senate vote that seemed set to overturn the measure. But the move will not prevent the Senate vote or spare…

For decades, D.C.'s Ward 8 leaders say, the outside community has often laid out an economic and development agenda for them. Now they want that to change.