Press Release: Mayor Bowser Orders Citywide Curfew Beginning at 6PM Today
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:January 6, 2021
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered a citywide curfew for the District of Columbia from 6:00…
Press Release: Norton Announces Date for Public Hearing with Army Corps of Engineers and Army on…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
January 6, 2021
Contact: Sharon Eliza Nichols
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the…
Press Release: Statement from Mayor Bowser on the Future of DC Statehood
News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 6, 2021
CONTACT:
LaToya Foster (EOM)
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser released the following statement on the path forward for making…
Washington Blade: D.C. budget lacks funds to implement part of LGBTQ bill
In a little-noticed development, the D.C. chief financial officer determined in November that there are insufficient funds in the city’s budget to implement an important part of a bill approved by the D.C. Council to strengthen the…
DCist: Thousands Of Trump Supporters Are Flooding Downtown D.C. For Second Day Of Protests
Early on the second day of protests baselessly contesting president-elect Joe Biden’s victory, maskless Trump supporters are gathering in downtown D.C. as Congress prepares to count the Electoral College’s votes.
DCist: How Some Locals Skipped To The Front Of The COVID-19 Vaccine Line
Government contractor Rob Towner, 36, breathed into a surgical mask Monday while a technician jabbed his right arm with a COVID-19 vaccine.
Washington Post: So many pets have been adopted during the pandemic that shelters are running out
Animal shelters in the Washington region are experiencing a unique problem: As the coronavirus pandemic has kept more residents at home, it has created such a high demand for adopting dogs that the supply is increasingly limited.
Washington Business Journal: Protesters clash with police near Black Lives Matter Plaza as D.C.…
Protesters of the presidential election clashed with police near Black Lives Matter Plaza and the Metropolitan Police Department made several arrests Tuesday in advance of what’s expected to be larger protests near the White House and on…
District Links: 6 arrests made as Trump supporters begin rallies; DC built record 4-plus miles of…
Happy Tuesday. Supporters of Donald Trump began rallying in DC, amplifying the president's discredited claims of voter fraud. One speaker encouraged demonstrators to turn to one another and hug, repeatedly chanting "mass spreader event."
Washington Post: Proud Boys leader barred from District by judge following his arrest
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, accused of burning a Black Lives Matter banner taken from a Black church, was barred from the District by a judge on Tuesday, forcing him out of the nation’s capital ahead of potentially volatile…
Washington Post: What to know about the coronavirus vaccine rollout in D.C., Maryland and Virginia
More than 1 out of every 100 Americans have now been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, the virus that has overturned life as we know it for nearly a year. Here in the D.C. region, more than 200,000 people have gotten shots. With…
WTOP: Pro-Trump protesters rally in DC ahead of Electoral College vote count
A day before Congress is expected to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory, supporters of President Donald Trump and his unproven claims of widespread election fraud rallied in downtown D.C. for the first of at least two days…
DCist: Police Have Made Two Arrests In Downtown D.C. Related To MAGA Rallies
With closed streets and shuttered businesses keeping many residents away from downtown D.C., Trump supporters have begun gathering for a slate of rallies to protest Congress certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
Associated Press: Hundreds of Trump supporters flock to DC ahead of vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump descended on the nation’s capital Tuesday to cheer his baseless claims of election fraud a day before a congressional vote to affirm Joe Biden’s victory.
DCist: ‘Fingers Crossed For Safety’: How Downtown Businesses Are Preparing For The Trump Rallies
The last time pro-Trump and far-right demonstrators rallied in D.C. in December, a small crowd went into the Eaton DC hotel without masks and refused to socially distance. Some of them destroyed one of the hotel’s hand sanitizer…
Press Release: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Closed January 6
For Immediate Release:
January 5, 2021
Media Contact:
George Williams, Media Relations Manager
(Washington, DC) - The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, located at 901 G St. NW, will be closed January 6.
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Press Release: AG Racine Joins Multistate Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Rule Allowing…
News Release — DC Office of the Attorney General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 5, 2021
MEDIA CONTACT:
Office of Communications
Attorneys General Argue Unlawful “True Lender” Rule Could Enable Non-Bank Lenders to Bypass…
Amber Harding: DC should save businesses — and lives
In 2020, 180 District residents passed away while homeless, a 53% increase from 2019. Twenty-three of them died of COVID-19. On Dec. 21, the annual Homeless Memorial Vigil — organized each year by the People for Fairness Coalition —…
Washington Post: Trump supporters protesting the election begin demonstrating in D.C.
One day before Congress votes to certify that Joe Biden won the presidential election, Trump supporters who refuse to accept the reality of his defeat have begun demonstrating in Washington again. The city is bracing for 48 hours of…
WTOP: Proud Boys leader released from jail but ordered to leave DC and stay away
The leader of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys, who was arrested Monday ahead of protests planned by supporters of President Donald Trump, has been released from jail but has been ordered to leave D.C. and stay away until his…