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A tax revenue windfall from legalized sports betting has yet to become reality in D.C.

When the National Gallery of Art finishes its multistage comeback with Friday’s reopening of its East Building, it will not require fully vaccinated visitors to wear masks, and it will not seek proof of their vaccine status.

On the morning of the museum reopening, Kirk Johnson is almost as excited as the kids lined up outside. “I am just so happy,” says Johnson, the Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. “461 days closed, and…

When D.C. Superior Court Judge Marisa Demeo first applied for a job in the Justice Department in 1993, FBI agents showed up at her parents’ home to confirm that she had come out to them as gay.

Many in DC had Friday off in observation of Juneteenth, and they took advantage of the city's memorials in advance of events planned on Saturday.

A federal judge ruled that D.C. must provide incarcerated students with their legally mandated special-education services, which the students allege the city’s school system has not delivered during the public health emergency.

D.C. schools are developing a plan that will address the learning loss that happened over the pandemic, and it will be a plan that will meet kids where they are in their learning.

A Republican congressman from Wisconsin introduced legislation this week that would ban D.C. schools from teaching critical race theory — the academic framework that examines the way policies and laws perpetuate systemic racism.

A new report by advocates for the mentally ill alleges patient mistreatment and staff misconduct at a Northwest Washington psychiatric hospital that resulted in the mass arrest of teenagers and the death of a patient last year.

When Rachel Mann bought a townhouse in Valley Terrace about a decade ago, she loved the tall trees on Oxon Run Parkway, right behind her house.

Two months after students inside the D.C. Jail filed suit against the city for failing to provide them federally mandated education during the pandemic, the D.C. public schools chancellor is responding to a judge’s order.

Raymond Kim knew his time was up long before his landlord hung a “For Sale” on the building where he took over a wholesale meat, chicken and seafood shop 13 years ago.

Early on Friday morning, a Metro train arrived.

Faced with an unexpected day off on Friday to commemorate Juneteenth, Washingtonians joined tourists at public monuments and museums to reflect on the country’s painful history of slavery and its present-day repercussions.

In her latest push to get D.C. residents vaccinated against the coronavirus, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has announced a new incentive: $51 Visa gift cards.

D.C. Public Schools closed Friday for Juneteenth, America’s newest federal holiday, but the last-minute decision surprised and frustrated some parents.

A second-annual report from Capital Area Food Bank found that significantly more Hispanic families in the D.C. region are facing food insecurity after the pandemic — a “dramatic shift” that reflects the ways government-support systems…

A Republican congressman from Wisconsin has introduced a bill that would ban the teaching of critical race theory in D.C. public and charter schools, claiming it pits “Americans against Americans.”