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A new survey found that one in four adults with children in the District say they can’t afford enough food for their children and one in 10 adults in rental housing say they are behind on their rent.

Mayor Fears 'Race War' as Outside Agitators Fuel Nationwide Fires

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said President Donald Trump’s latest threat to cut federal dollars for certain big cities is aimed at spurring them to do more to quell violence, but local leaders dismissed it Thursday as a political…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in the nation’s capital on Thursday released body camera footage from the officer who fatally shot a Black teenager a day earlier, leading to protests outside Mayor Muriel Bowser’s home and a police station.

He helped found and then led Groundwork Anacostia River DC.

Gregory Dean announced his retirement Thursday, after five years as Chief of the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department. Dean was appointed by Mayor Muriel Bowser in 2015 to lead the 2,100-member department.

A blog post attributed to a history professor at George Washington University stated that she had assumed a Black identity for much of her career, despite being White.

A new project by a California-based sociologist examines how certain D.C. neighborhoods have gentrified over time, relying in part on a perhaps-unorthodox tool for such a task: Google Street View.

"The CDC is lying to us, and doctors are being paid to lie about Covid," a nurse in a CVS program told a patient in DC.

D.C. police have released body camera footage of Wednesday’s fatal shooting of an 18-year-old in Southeast that police say appears to show the teen holding a gun in his right hand before the officer fired the shot that killed him.

An initiative cracking down on gun crimes in the District targeted three predominantly Black wards and was not enforced citywide as announced, U.S. prosecutors acknowledged in court records, drawing attacks that the policy…

Red Bear Brewing Co. launches their "drag-livery service" next week.

The footage shows Officer Alexander Alvarez warn Kay not to move, then almost simultaneously firing his weapon.

As the region heads in to another holiday weekend and the end of an unprecedented summer, progress at containing the coronavirus outbreak in the D.C. region is still mixed. But much of the region is still forging ahead with reopening.

The head of the District of Columbia’s emergency call center tells WTOP “there is not a systematic problem with DC 911,” in response to allegations that fire and EMS crews have been sent to wrong addresses more times this year than the…

The demonstration was in response to yesterday's police killing of 18-year-old Deon Kay.

A new poll indicates that support is growing for the ballot item in D.C. that calls for decriminalizing psychedelic plants, including “magic mushrooms.”