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Marje Hines spent last year’s D.C. summer youth employment program working as a summer camp counselor. She’d read books with rambunctious youngsters or take them outside to doodle with chalk and play basketball.

When the D.C. Superior Court fully reopens for trials once the coronavirus crisis has subsided, the court will have a broader pool of jurors to call on than in the past, thanks to new changes to its jury policies.

The House is expected to vote next week on a measure that would make Washington, D.C. a state, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced on Tuesday. The measure, dubbed H.R. 51 — to denote that D.C. would be the fifty-first state — is…

(CNN) — The House of Representatives will vote on a District of Columbia statehood bill on June 26, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced Tuesday.

The House has scheduled a vote next week on a bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, marking the first time since 1993 that Congress will have voted on the issue.

House Democrats plan to bring the issue to floor on June 26

“This is not just an issue of local governance and fairness, it is a major civil rights issue as well,” says Steny Hoyer.

For the second time in two weeks, the D.C. Board of Elections attempted to hold an election almost entirely by mail — and on Tuesday, at least in the initial hours of the day, it seems to have worked.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats controlling the House have slated a vote next week to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, an issue that they say has become far more important in the aftermath of protests for racial justice in both…

Statehood has long been a goal of D.C. leaders, and a bill to make the District the 51st state will arrive on the House floor next week.

American University students will have the option of taking classes in-person or online for the upcoming fall semester, the school said Tuesday, joining George Washington University as one of the first universities in the D.C. area to…

Matchbox Food Group, owner of Matchbox restaurants, will pay $142,551 in unpaid wages to more than 100 restaurant workers who allegedly made less than minimum wage during some pay periods between 2016 and 2018, D.C. Attorney General Karl…

The U.S. House of Representatives has scheduled its historic vote on D.C. statehood for June 26, House Democrats announced on Tuesday.

Capitol Hill restaurant Ambar’s two-month closing for renovation was extended by another two months because of the coronavirus pandemic.

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) has chosen June 26 to hold the first floor vote in a generation on D.C. statehood, hoping to harness a national reckoning on race and capitalize on widespread outrage over the federal response…

Confronted with a shrinking budget, Washington, D.C., Chief Technology Officer Lindsey Parker on Friday proposed merging the city’s digital connectivity and “smart city” programs into a single, community-based project.

Being in the streets of Washington reminded me of the occupation I endured as a Palestinian.

Bars and restaurants in Washington, D.C. may be forced to close if landlords don’t give them a break on rent, dozens of proprietors wrote in a Monday letter suggesting “the boom is over.”