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President Trump took aim at D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser during his rally in Tulsa Saturday night, the latest development in an ongoing public feud between them.

As locals and visitors marked Juneteenth with celebrations, demonstrations, and service across the region on Friday, the evening ended with a bang — a “thunk,” really — as a group of protesters tossed ropes and chains around the Albert…

Transit systems in the Washington suburbs are beginning to ramp up service that was reduced or canceled when the region locked down because of the coronavirus pandemic.

D.C. firefighters and police officers on Saturday rescued eight adults and four children who became trapped on rocks in the Potomac River and were cut off from shore by rapidly rising waters in a sudden rainstorm.

Three groups of people fishing and picnicking escaped a treacherous situation on the Potomac River with help from D.C. Fire and EMS, and police, when surging waters cut them off from the safety of shore on Saturday afternoon.

FreshFarm announced the inclusion of four new Dupont vendors.

Mayor Muriel Bowser made the call yesterday: with 15 days of decline in the community spread metric—one more than the goal—the city would make the move to Phase Two of its reopening plan on Monday.

Rolls of thunder and the tap-tap-tap of intermittent rain provided the soundtrack for protests in Washington on Saturday, the fourth week of demonstrations in the District against racial inequality and the systemic mistreatment of black…

"There's no more sweeping these harsh realities under the rug, putting on Band-Aids over the scars. It's time we held everyone accountable."

Cheering demonstrators jumped up and down as the 11-foot (3.4-meter) statue of Albert Pike — wrapped with chains — wobbled on its high granite pedestal before falling backward, landing in a pile of dust. Protesters then set a bonfire and…

By Saturday morning, there was little left but a graffiti-covered pedestal at the site of the only outdoor Confederate statue in the nation’s capital.

For a period in the early 1990s and again in the wake of white supremacist violence in Charlottesvile in 2017, activists and city officials alike called for the removal of a statue of a Confederate general that stands in Judiciary Square.…

Following a day of peaceful protests celebrating Juneteenth, protesters pulled down and burned the statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike in D.C.’s Judiciary Square on Friday evening.

As Juneteenth rallies took place in Downtown D.C., a small caravan of vehicles gathered in near the city’s border with Maryland to celebrate freedom and fathers.

D.C. is falling down a list of the most intensely gentrified cities in the United States.

Despite pushback from local lawmakers and D.C.’s current coronavirus restrictions, Trump plans to host his Fourth of July celebration at the White House.

Here is the question posed to Bradley Beal: Have you ever been racially profiled?

The NBA and WNBA are on track to resume their seasons next month, but for Washington Mystics guard Natasha Cloud, basketball has barely registered on her list of priorities.

Juneteenth marks the date — June 19, 1865 — that all enslaved black people in the U.S. learned they were free. It was more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, when a Union Army general read federal orders to…