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A bill approved in a preliminary vote by the D.C. Council on Tuesday to provide nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ seniors and people with HIV in long-term care facilities will be put on hold until at least next year because the city…

Allister Chang, Randy Downs, and Alex Padro get nods from one of the country's most prominent LGBTQ political organizations

Danielle Jennings said when she worked at the Supreme Court in the early 2000s, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took an interest in her life. It took Jennings by surprise because Ginsburg moved so quietly.

About 200 people protesting the grand jury decision in the Breonna Taylor case marched through downtown Washington on Wednesday night.

Hundreds of people marched across the District Wednesday evening to protest a Kentucky grand jury’s decision not to charge a police officer in the shooting of Breonna Taylor. One of the three Louisville officers at the scene, Brett…

People in D.C. and in other parts of the U.S. are gathering to protest the recent grand jury decision that brought no charges to Louisville police for the killing of Breonna Taylor.

Gray endorses Goodwin while Silverman backs Lazere.

Happy Wednesday. Neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River — home to many long lines for the June primary as voters looked to cast ballots in person rather than by mail — could get a large-scale voting center after all amid criticism the…

Events DC, the city’s convention and sports authority, is now offering up the Entertainment and Sports Arena, in Ward 8 for use as a possible super vote center for the November election. The decision follows growing criticism over the fact…

D.C. neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River may get a voting super center for the presidential election after all.

The District paid roughly $5.2 million in improper payments to the prime contractor on the D.C. Streetcar project from September 2010 through March 2019, a new report by the D.C. inspector general finds.

Tiffany Johnson sounded the alarm when she heard smoke detectors beeping during distance learning.

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts granted concept approval Sept. 17 to a planned hotel by 12th Street and Independence Avenue SW that it rejected three times previously for being out of touch with its surroundings.

D.C. just took another step toward establishing an office dedicated to the needs of Washingtonians who are deaf and hard of hearing.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that two community groups have no legal standing to challenge a proposed development project that would raze a long-standing public plaza at the center of Adams Morgan.

At the building's last Hanukkah party, RBG declined the latkes, but did inquire about a glass of wine.

Okay, Washington. What do we think? The city is running out of 202 telephone numbers. On Tuesday it was announced that the new, additional area code for the city will be 771.

You wouldn’t necessarily think that a pandemic would be the time to move to a new city, but three well-known bakeries that opened in the last month have something in common: They’ve all picked D.C. as the first location for expansion…

The daily average of new coronavirus infections Wednesday in the greater Washington region fell to its lowest point in more than two months.