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Holding an iPad provided by the nurses inside the Allied Services Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Scranton, Pa., and done up for the occasion of her first FaceTime call, 98-year-old Ruth Andres stared into the screen and…

Booms and bangs were everywhere. The air was acrid with pepper spray, marijuana and sage — the peace goddesses were trying to purify the protesters by burning sage.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Almost as soon as the towering black fencing was erected last week to seal off Lafayette Park, the barrier became an art gallery and a sounding board for the demonstrators protesting years of black deaths at the hands of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s use of smoke bombs and pepper balls to rout civil rights demonstrators from Lafayette Park near the White House has emboldened protesters and added a new chapter to the site’s storied history as…

Images and stories from this weekend's protests against anti-black racism and police brutality.

Teachers of the year are at the top of their field. They’re content experts, creative thinkers and relationship builders. But online education? Turns out even they struggle with it.

Brooke Pinto had no business winning the Ward 2 Democratic primary race. How did she win the seat in a field of experienced candidates?

It has become a biannual event in the nation’s capital since its inception back in 1994.

In the middle of coronavirus-related measures, there has been big jump in bicycle sales in April. And D.C.-area bike shops have been struggling to keep up with the demand.

In a situation markedly different than what initially transpired between police officers and protesters in the wake of George Floyd’s death, hundreds of thousands of people of various races peacefully converged on portions of the…

Sakira Coleman came down to Black Lives Matter Plaza to organize the crowd and give the movement a burst of energy. “It’s exhausting. This is our thirteenth day protesting out here,” she said. But “it’s just business as usual now. It takes…

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 only includes 7.85 million in local funding for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP). This is $15,000 less than what was approved last year for the current budget.

Latavia Huntley brought her 3-year-old son Tariq to the stretch of H Street lining Lafayette Square Wednesday morning and said they spent about two hours walking where protesters marched days before.

As near-constant Black Lives Matter protests have become a fixture near the White House, people experiencing homelessness in the District are finding themselves caught in the crossfire between demonstrators and law enforcement.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser was a national hero in the eyes of some of the demonstrators across the country clamoring for police reform last Friday, as she ordered “Black lives matter” painted in the street as a defiant message to the…

As protests continued in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, preparations are underway for an estimated 100,000 people to converge on Washington in late August to push for criminal justice reform.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser gained attention last week after she had a section of 16th Street near the White House painted with the words "Black Lives Matter" in bright yellow and renamed a section of the street Black Lives…