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The serious issues of racial equality and police brutality are common in conversation now, but should comedians be concerned about taking topics too far?

The fencing in Lafayette Square that was taken down after the height of protests in D.C. following the killing of George Floyd will be put back up.

Tensions again flared on D.C. streets this week after groups of protesters erected barricades and set up tents and signs declaring an “autonomous zone” on city streets near the White House.

D.C. police lined streets around the White House on Tuesday, periodically clearing out tents, barricades and other structures built by protesters seeking to create an autonomous zone in the area that has been at the center of weeks of…

An attempt by activists to create an “autonomous zone” outside the White House has reignited tensions between President Trump and Mayor Muriel E. Bowser about who controls D.C. streets.

In the wake of nationwide calls for police reform, the Metro Transit Police are taking a step toward more oversight for their officers.

When the Museum of the Bible opened three years ago, its founders aimed to engage a wider audience with the Bible and its thousands of years of history.

The Metro board on Tuesday voted unanimously to create an independent panel to review complaints of abuse, misconduct and excessive force by transit police, but critics contend that the new body lacks authority to discipline or fire…

D.C. officials have agreed to temporarily close a section of 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan to car traffic for a weekend starting Friday, a test run to evaluate if the closure could be more permanent or if such a step would make sense in…

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - D.C. Congresswoman Del. Eleanor Norton announced plans Tuesday to introduce legislation to remove the Emancipation Memorial from Lincoln Park.

The busy DC roadway will open for dining, drinking, and shopping, Friday through Sunday.

A stretch of 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan will be closed to vehicular traffic from Friday through Sunday, forming a temporary pedestrian and bicycle zone, the city confirms to DCist.

Over the weekend and into Monday night, protesters in D.C. have targeted statues depicting historical American figures with ties to the Confederacy, slavery and violence against Native Americans. But in only one instance did D.C. police…

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton said she plans to introduce legislation to remove the Emancipation Memorial from Lincoln Park in Capitol Hill, which depicts President Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave.

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Allen Lew, the no-nonsense former D.C. official who marshaled the development of Nationals Park, among other transformational city projects, has died of complications from Covid-19.

Less than three weeks after D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser painted “Black Lives Matter” in the street to declare the roadway outside the White House a celebratory space for protesters, the police department she commands cleared those same…