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The U.S. Secret Service now says that it used pepper spray while clearing protesters from Lafayette Square on June 1 before the president’s photo-op outside St. John’s Church, a reversal from previous denials.

Starting Monday, four more fire stations will start to give free coronavirus testing to anyone who wants a test.

THE D.C. Council last week adopted sweeping emergency legislation aimed at reforming police practices — and came in for some swift criticism. Officials of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s administration and the police union said the council rushed…

The District reported a new peak in community spread of the coronavirus on Saturday, moving the city back from 11 days of sustained decline to nine.

We all know why the patch of real estate just north of the White House has been in the news lately.

An increase in drownings in the Potomac River has led local fire departments to remind swimmers that it is not only dangerous but illegal to swim in certain areas.

Federal authorities announced a reward last week in a fourth fire they said was set in the District during disorder that followed protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Dozens of protesters descended Saturday evening on the Northwest D.C. home of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), demanding that she defund the police as they chanted and danced to music at what they called a block party.

While large swaths of downtown D.C. were closed to vehicular traffic and largely free of the big protests the city has seen over the last two weeks, a livelier scene was to be found on the small residential street in front of Mayor Muriel…

In a statement released Saturday, the U.S. Secret Service admitted to using pepper spray to disperse the crowd of protesters at the north side of Lafayette Square on June 1.

Using the hashtag #YouthSpeakUp, hundreds of parents and their children gathered in the District Saturday for a discussion and a walk from Freedom Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue to Black Lives Matter Plaza near Lafayette Square.

WASHINGTON - In a video address to the D.C. Police force this week, Chief Peter Newsham said the District's City Council “forgot about our 20 years of reform…. and insinuated that somehow the Metropolitan Police force would be involved in…

Washington: The residents of America’s capital wear their politics on their licence plates. Spend any time in the District of Columbia and you’ll notice vehicles everywhere bearing the slogan: Taxation Without Representation.

Gallaudet University’s oldest fraternity has been suspended from campus after members were identified wearing prohibited ceremonial robes that resemble Ku Klux Klan garb, officials said.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stated her desire for the Washington Redskins football team to return back to the District, but under a new name.

Protesters have now gathered in the streets of D.C. for two weeks straight. Over the last 15 days, tens of thousands of people have marched through all corners of the city to express their grief and their outrage — and to demand change.

TGIF. Muriel Bowser will join three other big-city mayors on Sunday for a CNN town hall about race issues.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced a lawsuit against the District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) on June 9 for failing to address “drug-and firearm-related nuisances at the properties.” The suit claims DCHA “…endanger over…