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An additional 5,000 members of the National Guard could arrive to support Inauguration Day security in Washington, city officials said Wednesday, which would increase the total to at least 20,000 in a rapidly swelling security apparatus…

Kojo Nnamdi, a fixture on Washington’s radio airwaves and an influential factor in the region’s politics, will retire from his daily program on WAMU-FM, the public station announced Wednesday.

The legendary broadcaster has hosted a show on WAMU since 1998

Airbnb announced Wednesday that it will cancel all reservations in the DC region during the week of the presidential inauguration in response to officials asking people not to travel to DC.

Federal authorities are busy locking down a large swath of D.C. six days earlier than originally planned after last week’s riots and ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

"The Kojo Nnamdi Show," the long-running local news program on public radio station WAMU 88.5, will go off the air in 2021 as its host largely retires, Kojo Nnamdi announced Wednesday. The last show will air April 1.

The District began locking down more parts of the city Tuesday in preparation for potentially violent protests before and on the day of the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration.

It was a video clip that captured not only the terror of the day, but the values at stake: a lone Black police officer in the marble halls of the U.S. Capitol building, facing down a mob of mostly White rioters who had stormed in bearing…

The Kojo Nnamdi Show’s 23-year-run on WAMU will end this spring, the station announced today. The last live show will air Thursday, April 1. Nnamdi will continue to host The Politics Hour on Fridays and he will host a series of live events…

Howard University alum Psalmayene 24 is one of our top young playwrights, embarking on a three-year stint as the Playwright in Residence at Mosaic Theater in Northeast D.C.

Happy Tuesday. The feds have set up a sedition and conspiracy task force to go after people linked to the Jan. 6 insurrection. Michael Sherwin, acting U.S. attorney for DC, said the public will be "shocked with some of the egregious…

Fences were going up across downtown D.C. and National Guard troops took up posts on street corners Tuesday, part of a sweeping lockdown aimed at heading off any unrest during a weekend of right-wing protests and the presidential…

The owner of the Marriott Wardman Park has permanently closed the hotel and filed for bankruptcy with the intention of selling the century-old property as part of its reorganization.

In its first full meeting following the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, D.C. Council members spent a significant amount of time debating whether they can take home office furniture.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI warned law enforcement agencies ahead of last week’s breach of the U.S. Capitol about the potential for extremist-driven violence, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, contradicting earlier statements that they were…

A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an internal document reviewed by The…

The more he learned about Wednesday’s rioting that led to five deaths at the U.S. Capitol, the more incredulous Theotis “Butch” Jones, a retired Capitol Police officer, became.