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Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 eliminates $2.1 million in one-time funding for street outreach allocated in fiscal year 2020 and advocates are now worried about the possible impacts, given the ongoing pandemic.…

The inspiring temporary exhibit stretches along 7th Street, Northwest.

With the issue of racism front and center, many D.C.-area readers are trying to learn more, leading to unprecedented demand for related books.

The mother of a man who was shot and killed by D.C. police is filing a lawsuit two years to the day of his killing, demanding transparency and justice.

Molly Smith, Arena Stage’s artistic director, was drinking coffee and reading the newspaper at home in early May, taking in stories about life during the pandemic.

With a wave of protests turning the nation’s focus to racism and police violence, the largest school system in Maryland is rethinking whether uniformed officers should be based inside its public schools.

For 13 days–day after day, and night after night—demonstrators shared their grief, their anger, their fear, their demands, their joy, their hope for change, and so much more with our reporters.

Southwest Soda Pop Shop wasn't sure it would survive the pandemic—then a tweet took off.

The nonprofit Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE) is launching pop-up coronavirus testing this weekend along D.C.’s protest routes — following a week of long lines and wait times at the city’s walk-up centers.

It's been two years since officers fatally shot her son. Police have not released body-camera footage of the incident.

When it comes to sports betting in D.C., gamblers say the odds are stacked too high against them.

The District passed a somber milestone on Thursday: more than 500 residents dead from COVID-19.

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Two years after 22-year-old D.C. resident Marqueese Alston was shot and killed by D.C. police, Georgetown Law’s Civil Rights Clinic has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the District of Columbia and the individual officers involved in…

An annual count of the region’s homeless population, released this week, shows broad improvements. But the report, taken from a single-day count in January, doesn’t reflect the current reality impacted by COVID-19—and, in fact, forecasts a…

The Department of Defense is reviewing the National Guard’s controversial role in nationwide racial justice protests over the past few weeks.

The death toll from the novel coronavirus surpassed 500 in the nation’s capital on Wednesday. District health officials report that 375 of the 506 fatalities have been African American, 65 have been Hispanic and 54 have been white. Blacks…