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A thousand portraits of suffragists make up the massive mosaic of Ida B. Wells that will call Union Station home next week, a nod to the 100-year anniversary of the right-to-vote movement and the role the D.C. landmark played.

A federal judge, hearing a Black Lives Matter DC lawsuit, has refused a request to identify the police officers accused of forcefully clearing protesters from Lafayette Square on June 1.

Tens of thousands of D.C. families will have the option of using an app or website to prove their income to renew their food stamp benefits, instead of coming into a government service center in person during the coronavirus pandemic.

Happy Wednesday. You can no longer register to vote online in DC, after the Board of Elections scrapped a buggy app that offered the only way to register or update your voting information electronically.

Josue Martinez, an artist and the owner of Adams Morgan art gallery and boutique Corinto Gallery, was relaxing and watching TV on Tuesday night when his phone suddenly lit up with messages.

On Wednesday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that the Judiciary Square coronavirus testing site would be closed for the day due to a chance of thunderstorms.

The average number of new coronavirus cases across the greater Washington region dropped to its lowest level in a month Wednesday, a sign of progress after recent actions by local leaders to keep a lid on infection spikes.

A 1000-square-foot art installation depicting suffragist and civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells will go on display in D.C.’s Union Station on Aug. 24.

Construction has slowed a bit for new developments in Southwest DC outside of the Wharf, but the residential pipeline remains active. The neighborhood is awaiting completion of the Waterfront Station development, which has been nearly two…

D.C. and federal officials have come to an agreement on how parts of the redevelopment of an 80-acre portion of the Armed Forces Retirement Home campus in Northwest D.C. should proceed.

The Vote4DC app, which lets D.C. residents register to vote online, is no longer available because of technical problems.

The health department says the data does not support calls to suspend indoor dining. So what does that data suggest D.C. do to reverse the trend?

They’d be in remote classes for only about two weeks. Soon, they’d be back to cheer on friends playing spring sports, plan graduation parties and shop for prom dresses.

The art installation of the suffragist and anti-lynching activist will be on display for a week.

Izzy, the Smithsonian National Zoo’s seven-year-old golden lion tamarin, died giving birth to her two offspring earlier this month.

Between an appeal from neighbors and fears of displacement from residents, it has been a long road for the redevelopment of the Park Morton public housing community. Now, the DC Housing Authority (DCHA) is filing raze permits to prepare…

The D.C. chapter of Black Lives Matter is criticizing Mayor Muriel Bowser after her remarks during the Democratic National Convention.

He helped Black Mississippi voters register to vote in the 1960s, crusaded against apartheid South Africa in the 1980s and championed same-sex marriage equality before it became the law of the land.