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Visitors to the District’s popular attractions are still coming but noticing changes

Amtrak is canceling its Acela nonstop service between Washington and New York amid the global coronavirus outbreak that has hurt travel demand.

Amtrak will cancel its nonstop Acela service between D.C. and New York City through late May, citing tumbling demand as the U.S. eyes a wide-scale coronavirus outbreak.

Last year, home flipping data in DC showed a market where more houses were being flipped even as profits fell. Now, ATTOM Data Solutions Year-End Home Flipping Report shows that this was not a fluke.

Former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. is back in city political circles, eight years after he went to prison for stealing taxpayer dollars meant for children.

Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren weren’t the only pols to suspend their campaigns this week, it turns out. Left-leaning community activist and Northwest neighborhood commissioner Renée Bowser dropped out of the Ward 4 D.C. Council race…

Grace Hu’s daughter spends part of her day at Amidon-Bowen Elementary School on a tablet, working on reading assignments or solving math problems. But some devices, Hu learned, were slow or froze in the middle of class.

Arepa Zone received a notice to vacate by March 31. Chef Eric Adjepong will take over the stall they've occupied for five years.

West Half, JBG Smith Properties' recently delivered apartment building across from Nationals Park, is high-end. The 1205 Collection, an exclusive set of units and amenities within West Half, looks to take it to another level.

The statue of Ulysses S. Grant in front of the Capitol might just be the greatest equestrian statue on Earth. It is perfect: From any angle, in any light, under any weather, the monument conjures its subject’s humanity.

“You know what it is,” said one of the assailants as he pointed a gun at my chest.

“Not being able to use that has been a big setback,” Wilson principal Kim Martin says.

Illegal guns continue to be a driver of violence in D.C., and the city’s police chief said an agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office to bring certain gun cases to federal court is helping crack down on repeat offenders.

Developers have broken ground on a food hall coming to Benning Road NE. There is another slated for the Mount Vernon neighborhood, as well as ones coming to Fort Totten and to McPherson Square. An interior mall in Foggy Bottom previously…

TGIF! Jack Evans faced voters and asked for forgiveness last night at a debate.