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The D.C. State Board of Education voted unanimously in favor of new social studies standards Wednesday evening that will transform how the subject is taught in the city’s public and charter schools.

The D.C. Council will consider a new bill aimed at stiffening penalties for certain domestic and sexual violence cases.

SmileDirectClub will be required to release 17,000 customers across the U.S. from its nondisclosure agreements, which prohibited them from posting negative reviews of the company’s orthodontics products, as part of a settlement with the…

A draft resolution would have paid Brenda Donald three months’ salary—nearly $69,000—as an interim director prepares to take over.

The cost of sending a toddler to a child care center in D.C. is nearly $24,400 on average annually, per a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

DC officials celebrated a key milestone in the construction of the new Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center facility on the St. Elizabeths East campus by signing the final steel beam in the hospital's frame.

The standards highlight the experiences of people of color and include lessons on media literacy

A late-night email to the media on a holiday weekend often contains bad news. The one sent by the D.C. government at 11:25 p.m. last Saturday was no exception. It announced the release of a “summary report” that concluded the mayor’s top…

While Bowser waits for the results of a second investigation, her lawyer admonished a reporter for asking what the mayor knew of Falcicchio’s behavior, and when.

In her first public appearance since her legal office substantiated allegations of sexual harassment against her former top adviser, John Falcicchio, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) defended the office’s investigative process — pushing…

D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital has received a $96 million donation from an anonymous donor family. The hospital will use it to advance brain tumor research in children.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser broke her silence Wednesday on the sexual harassment accusations that felled her deputy mayor and political confidante John Falcicchio, calling his actions towards a subordinate “wrong.”

A draft federal spending bill unveiled by House Republicans on Wednesday would impose a broad slate of new and old policy restrictions on D.C., from maintaining the eight-year-old ban on legalizing marijuana sales to prohibiting the city…

Seven D.C. residents, a majority of whom are street vendors, filed a lawsuit against D.C. over its Clean Hands Law, arguing that disqualifying them from getting an occupational or small business license because they cannot afford to pay…

Mayor Muriel Bowser said today that she doesn't see a need for a new, independent investigation into the allegations of sexual harassment by former deputy mayor and chief of staff John Falcicchio sustained by the Mayor's Office of Legal…

More than half of the D.C. Council’s members — including almost all of the women — are calling for an independent investigation into accusations that a former deputy mayor and close confidante of Mayor Muriel Bowser sexually harassed…

I had hoped it would be a weekend without a killing in D.C. Just 48 hours to let Father’s Day flow into Juneteenth without any family experiencing a loss from gun violence. And what happened?

D.C. bars will be allowed to stay open for 24 hours for a month this summer to accommodate the Women’s World Cup, thanks to an emergency bill passed by the D.C. Council.

Despite a narrow victory in 2020, Pinto may have consolidated enough support in the ward to stave off serious challengers.

It’s been a long few years for Metro. A pandemic that decimated ridership. A derailment that sidelined most of its fleet. But more recently, there have been signs of hope. Sixty percent more trains are running compared to this time last…