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Amid rising demands for racial justice, D.C.’s elected education leaders are calling for a name change at Woodrow Wilson High School — the city’s largest public high school in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Northwest D.C.

Protesters again gathered at Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C. on Wednesday, despite fencing and a line of guards placed at Lafayette Square.

Facing calls by activists to defund the police, a D.C. lawmaker on Wednesday proposed stripping the department of $15 million and forcing Police Chief Peter Newsham to undergo a council review next year to keep his job.

Nine people were arrested Tuesday night in skirmishes with authorities across from the White House — including one man who also had been arrested the day before, police said Wednesday.

Happy Wednesday. Protests near the White House are again setting up a clash between President Donald Trump and Mayor Muriel Bowser over the appropriate response. Hundreds of unarmed National Guardsmen will be deployed tonight to national…

The Washington Marriott Wardman Park, one of Greater Washington's largest and most historic hotels, is in danger of closing permanently.

Lincoln Park in Capitol Hill was the first public place named for Abraham Lincoln after his death in 1865, and Frederick Douglass and Ulysses S. Grant attended the unveiling of Thomas Ball’s Emancipation Memorial there on the 11th…

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against a gun manufacturer, accusing the company of flooding the District with untraceable firearms.

The Army activated about 400 unarmed members of the Washington, D.C., National Guard to “prevent any defacing or destruction” of monuments, defense officials said Wednesday, as protests over police violence continue alongside efforts to…

After more than a three-month delay due to COVID-19, the Washington Nationals are ready to defend their World Series title at Nats Park. But D.C. needs to approve their return to the city first.

The D.C. Council passed emergency police-reform legislation on June 9 that included measures to bar Metropolitan Police Department officers from using chemical irritants, like pepper spray or tear gas, and less-lethal projectiles, like…

President Trump’s advisers would recommend that he veto the D.C. statehood bill if it reached his desk, according to a White House policy statement issued Wednesday afternoon as House lawmakers debated the legislation.

If all the candidates currently vying for David Grosso’s soon-to-be vacant D.C. Council seat got together in the same room, they might have a hard time staying six feet apart.

Hundreds of unarmed D.C. National Guardsmen will be sent to help protect monuments in the District amid ongoing protests, the National Guard Bureau said on Wednesday.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's 2021 budget sets aside millions of dollars for the city's public housing authority to advance the long-sought redevelopment of two apartment complexes into mixed-income communities: Barry Farm in Anacostia and…

With the Fourth of July around the corner, a D.C. business owner said he’s been denied a license to sell fireworks after doing so for decades.

D.C.’s police chief, speaking exclusively to WTOP, said the idea of reducing the size of the force “doesn’t seem to make common sense,” defended a recent statement that officers have been “completely abandoned” by the D.C. Council, and…

One of D.C.’s largest, oldest and most-storied hotel properties may not survive the COVID-19 pandemic, at least under Marriott International’s management.

The National Park Service says it’s issuing permits again for demonstrations and other common events on the National Mall after a three-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.