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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Capitol Police didn’t adequately respond to frantic calls for help from officers when they pressed panic buttons on their radios seeking immediate backup as scores of pro-Trump rioters beat officers with bats, poles…

A majority of the 13 D.C. Council members signed a letter Tuesday calling on Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to mandate coronavirus vaccines — without a testing option — for all public school employees and day-care workers.

The concert venue and club is the first in the US to earn the top spot in DJ Mag. And it's celebrating.

Northbound and southbound lanes in the tunnel reopened south of Massachusetts Avenue NW

The families of two people killed in an August 2019 row house fire in Northwest D.C. have filed wrongful death lawsuits totaling $300 million against the landlord and D.C. authorities, alleging a stunning pattern of negligence in the…

Nonprofit organizations overflow with donations, and how else you can help.

Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto is catching some blow back for a not-so-welcoming back-to-school tweet that pits students against longtime residents.

The headquarters of The Washington Post is on the market.

Eight members of the D.C. Council are pushing for tighter COVID-19 vaccine requirements for teachers, child care providers, and D.C. government employees in light of the full approval of the Pfizer vaccine by the U.S. Food and Drug…

Restaurateur Zong Chen has something similar to the golden rule when it comes to the menu items he’ll offer his customers.

The revelation was almost an afterthought in the 20-page police affidavit charging Marktwan Hargraves with the killing of Nyiah Courtney, the 6-year-old who died during a mid-July shootout outside a liquor store in Southeast D.C.

To the unknowing passerby, the red two-door sedan sitting in the parking lot behind Howard University’s School of Engineering is unremarkable enough to be forgettable, if one were even to notice it on first glance. But to a small subset of…

D.C.’s 3rd Street Tunnel is closed to commuters for a second day after a ruptured main sent water pouring down the walls and compromised the roadway, breaking up asphalt.

A water leak forced authorities to close the tunnel on Monday

Feeling helpless and hopeless, Fatima Popal sent her brother a text message after watching five days of coverage about the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan.

People across the East Coast share their memories of the Mineral, Va., earthquake of 2011.

DC Water said it doesn’t know how long it will take to repair a water main break that closed the 3rd Street Tunnel in Northwest on Monday. That means commuters could be in for more traffic headaches during rush hour Tuesday morning — or…