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The Park Service shut down the encampment, the largest in the nation’s capital, on Wednesday morning

Senate Republicans are mounting a full offensive against a bill passed by the D.C. Council overhauling the city’s criminal code, pushing to follow the Republican-led House of Representatives’ move last week to block the bill from taking…

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WASHINGTON (AP) — National Park Service employees on Wednesday swept through a large homeless encampment three blocks from the White House, tearing down dozens of tents and warning that people who resisted would be subject to arrest.

The National Park Service cleared a D.C. park just a block from the White House, where dozens of people had been living in tents in the small green space.

The Tennessee senator who is leading efforts to block the Revised Criminal Code Act enacted by the DC Council says he now has the support of all 48 of his fellow Republicans in the Senate — setting up a scenario where just two Democrats…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced plans Wednesday to increase per-student funding by about $500 in her proposed budget, detailing a $2.3 billion investment into the city’s more than 100,000 students in public and public charter schools.

St. Elizabeths Hospital patients settled a lawsuit with the District-owned psychiatric hospital and the city over allegations that the facility failed to provide needed care during an extended water outage in 2019 and the coronavirus…

Four patients at D.C.’s St. Elizabeth’s psychiatric hospital who lived without water for 28 days and filed suit over the conditions have reached a settlement with the city.

After two weeks of intense outreach and citywide hand-wringing over the future of the homeless campers at McPherson Square, the National Park Service evicted dozens of people from their downtown tents Wednesday morning and arrested two men…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Wednesday that she’s proposing a 5.05% increase in the amount of money allocated for each student in the city’s public and charter schools, amounting to an additional $144 million in funding.

Congressional Republicans are pressing ahead with a legislative effort to prevent D.C. from implementing a new criminal code that would lighten maximum sentences for burglary, carjacking and robbery.

It should have come as no surprise when the House voted last week in favor of resolutions disapproving two D.C.-enacted bills — one allowing noncitizens to vote in D.C. elections and a second revising the city’s criminal code. House…

The National Park Service on Wednesday cleared a large homeless encampment at McPherson Square, despite pushback and calls for a delay from some D.C. lawmakers and numerous homeless advocacy groups.

District leaders say they hope to find housing for the park’s residents, but they wouldn’t accept help from prominent nonprofits.

Divided internally, D.C. Democrats — from the mayor to activists to the business community — have no grand strategy to fight back against this new era of congressional meddling.