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Congress has approved the building of a national memorial to fallen journalists on federal land in the nation’s capital, two years after a gunman killed five people in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette, in Annapolis, Maryland.

The percentage of high school students attending D.C. schools who graduated in the 2019-2020 school year rose over the year before, according to newly released data from the city.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday passed a bill that provides scooter users the same protection as pedestrians, bicyclists and other “vulnerable users.”

The District's 187th homicide was a 15-month-old boy shot in a car Wednesday night, making this year the deadliest since 2005 — with nearly a month still to go.

Staff at Woodrow Wilson High School’s student-run newspaper are making it clear that they want to see a former Black teacher’s name going up outside the school building in Northwest D.C.

Restaurants that participate in a premium service offered by DoorDash found out earlier this week that their commission rates will increase in some cases, starting Dec. 9.

He was old enough to dance to a good beat but too young to know his favorite color.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser escalated efforts Thursday to obtain more coronavirus vaccines for city health-care workers, arguing the Trump administration’s planned rollout of doses for a first cohort of high-priority recipients is unfairly…

D.C.’s Historic Preservation Review Board denied a historic designation Thursday for a former slaughterhouse building where a federal contractor wants to build a halfway house for 300 men.

Metro is preparing to lay off between 1,100 and 1,200 employees in January, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications filed in Maryland and Virginia in late November. The job cuts will hit Jan. 23, the first Saturday…

THE D.C. POLICE department that Peter Newsham is departing as chief is mercifully far different from the one he joined 31 years ago. Once notorious for leading the nation in the number of people shot and killed by police, the department…

When Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on November 23 that she would enact new restrictions that cancelled—among other things—indoor fitness classes, DC studio owners were taken aback and confused.

After learning the District would only get a tenth of the vaccine doses it needs to start, Health Director Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt said that pandemic policies and decisions are out of alignment with the vaccine quantity the city will…

D.C. Councilman David Grosso, I-At large, will take a job as a lobbyist with Arent Fox LLP when he leaves office in January, joining a firm representing a bevy of powerful clients with business before his former colleagues.

Ivanka Trump was questioned for more than five hours this week by investigators from the D.C. attorney general’s office, which has accused President Trump’s Inaugural Committee of wasting donated money on an overpriced ballroom at the…

A protracted struggle to build a new men’s halfway house in D.C. is one step closer to being over.

Metro has proposed the most severe service cuts in its history because of steep fare revenue losses due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Calling the shooting “unfathomable,” D.C. officials identified the 15-month-old boy who was killed in Southeast on Wednesday night and offered a $60,000 reward for information.

A 15-month-old boy was shot and killed in D.C. while riding in a vehicle Wednesday night, marking the third shooting of a juvenile in the city this week, and the youngest homicide victim in D.C. this year.

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Washington Post readers have been asking our journalists questions about the virus and the local, state, federal and global responses to it. We’ve received well over 10,000 questions, and we’ve…