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Thousands of people gathered in D.C. Friday as part of a massive movement to protest police brutality.

The Mazza Gallerie sold for $38 million to the highest bidder in a foreclosure auction Friday after its owner, an affiliate of New York's Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp., defaulted on $67.1 million in loans it took out to acquire the…

More than a month after the $600 per week federal unemployment benefits expired, Congress has yet to negotiate an extension of the program, and pressure is now mounting on D.C. to apply for the temporary relief measure being offered by the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators gathered around the White House for a “noise demonstration and dance party” in an attempt to drown out President Donald Trump’s speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination.

My mother, Marie-Marcelle Buteau Racine, emigrated to the United States in 1963 from Haiti in hopes of creating a better life for our family. She arrived to find a nation struggling to break free of injustice. That year, she joined…

In 1963, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton was in law school, and volunteering in Mississippi for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, when she got a phone call.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to gather on the National Mall today for the March on Washington 2020, which will be led by families of Black people killed by police officers.

The D.C. Public Schools system is scrambling to get laptops to thousands of students this week before the virtual start of the 2020-21 school year on Monday — but many parents remain in the dark as to whether their kids will have laptops…

The last night of the Republican National Convention is underway and hundreds of people are protesting at Black Lives Matter Plaza.

Hundreds of protesters chanted, marched and played music near the White House on Thursday as President Trump spoke on the final night of the Republican National Convention — a loud and often raucous rejoinder to a leader they say has…

Delaware has been taken off D.C.’s list of high-risk states, and those coming from the state to D.C. will not have to self-quarantine for 14 days.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) has filed a lawsuit against the grocery delivery service Instacart, ­alleging it has failed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in District sales tax and deceived local consumers into believing…

The D.C. Court of Appeals issued an opinion Thursday finding that a D.C. hearing officer acted properly in approving the demolition of the historic West Heating Plant in Georgetown over objections of the D.C. Preservation League.

The 194 protesters arrested the night of June 1 on a Northwest D.C. street are still waiting for the D.C. Attorney General’s Office to decide whether they will be prosecuted.

Twins Jazz, a club that helped bring jazz back to U Street NW during the resurgence of the area once known as D.C.’s Black Broadway, is closing permanently.

Kids are gathering in the parking lots outside schools, county libraries, McDonald’s and Starbucks.