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Police fired chemical agents to clear Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., on Monday night after protesters attempted — and failed — to pull down a huge statue of Andrew Jackson located there.

A U.S. prosecutor who quit the Justice Department after its leaders intervened in Roger Stone’s sentencing is headed to private practice — after helping D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) overhaul how his office might prosecute…

For some students and teachers, distance learning was tough at the tail end of the 2019-2020 school year amid the pandemic.

Four officers are injured and two people are under arrest after a skirmish erupted Monday afternoon around Black Lives Matter Plaza in downtown D.C.

As reopening continues, the risk from the coronavirus has not diminished for D.C. nurses in close contact with patients on a daily basis. And those on the front lines want compensation for the danger they face.

Protesters attempted to topple a bronze statue of former President Andrew Jackson in a park next to the White House Monday night, but were thwarted when police intervened.

Metro has accelerated its plan to restore service from the skeletal operation it has been running during the coronavirus pandemic, a shift partly driven by federal agencies that are headed back into the office sooner than expected.

Another local summertime event in D.C. has changed up its plans because of the coronavirus pandemic.

D.C. police clashed with protesters at H Street NW near Lafayette Square on Monday afternoon, as officers attempted to remove a tent encampment from the area.

The Metro board will hold a special meeting Tuesday to vote on the creation of a police investigation review panel to provide greater transparency and accountability for the Metro Transit Police Department.

The secret social hub of the Woodner apartment building in Northwest Washington used to be its mailroom.

The city is terminating its relationship with a Northeast motel that it has used as overflow housing for families experiencing homelessness for the last five years. The District is planning to move all remaining families out of the Quality…

There were many conflicting accounts of Leroy Keys’s death on March 8, 1938. But two facts were indisputable: Keys was black and the D.C. police officer who shot him was white.

"Any time I see a white business benefit from expensive fried chicken it drives me absolutely insane."

Popular Dupont nightlife spot Eighteenth Street Lounge announced Monday that it will be closing indefinitely as uncertainty remains over when it can reopen due to the pandemic.

Popular live music and DJ venue Eighteenth Street Lounge, one of many area music venues shuttered since mid-March because of the coronavirus pandemic, will not make a comeback, at least not at its present location.

Metro is reopening 15 rail stations that were closed due to low ridership during the coronavirus pandemic.