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In response to George Floyd’s death and the protests that have followed, the D.C. Council will consider an emergency bill to improve policing in the city.

Military Humvees glide along the wide avenues of the District. Armored vehicles for days blocked streets that were no longer under the control of D.C. police. Federal officers wearing combat gear and cradling rifles have been spotted…

Protesters and civil liberties groups are suing President Donald Trump, Attorney General William Barr, and heads of military forces and law enforcement for violating their constitutional rights by violently dispersing a peaceful protest at…

The bill addresses, among other things, access to body camera footage, neck restraints, use of force, stop and frisk, and D.C.'s anti-mask law.

Protests have erupted in more than 100 cities across the country since George Floyd, a black resident of Minneapolis, died after a police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes. Washington has been an epicenter of those…

It was the first night since Saturday without a curfew, but some protests in D.C. tapered off early Thursday as a rainstorm swept over the area.

The loud cries for police reform happening outside of the White House this week will move into the Wilson Building next Tuesday. The D.C. Council is expected to vote on emergency legislation that would ban the use of chokeholds, speed up…

A DAY after federal agents violently chased protesters from Lafayette Square, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) was pointedly asked about President Trump. Had his words made matters worse, a reporter asked at Tuesday’s press briefing, and…

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) said the Trump administration’s recent threats to impose the president’s “dangerous and callous will” on protesters in the District underscore the need for a congressional vote on D.C. statehood…

Happy Thursday. She's hardly alone in doing so, but Mayor Muriel Bowser is explicitly tying the District's case for statehood to public objections to the federal government's militarized response to the ongoing demonstrations against…

The president says he is determined to “dominate” Washington with military might. Democrats must rise to D.C.’s defense.

D.C. will not have a curfew on Thursday night, the first time the city won’t have a restriction in place in four days, and federal officials said they would begin to pull back some of the heavy military and law enforcement presence in the…

I’ve never had to wait more than 15 minutes to vote. In fact, I remember voting in the 2018 general election on my way to work. Of course, this election would pose some unprecedented logistical issues. There was an uprising sweeping the…

CALLS TO DEFUND the police have become a focal point of nationwide protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, with local politicians from New York City to Los Angeles weighing new budget cuts to their police…

The American Civil Liberties Union and Black Lives Matter on Thursday accused President Trump and his administration of authorizing an “unprovoked and frankly criminal attack” on demonstrators to enable a photo op of the president holding…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote to President Trump Thursday requesting a comprehensive list of the agencies involved in the federal law enforcement of the George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration Thursday, alleging officials violated the civil rights of protesters who were forcefully removed from a park near the White House by police using chemical…

The thwack of military helicopters is our new soundtrack. Backyards smell like smoke. One little boy in my Capitol Hill neighborhood went to sleep with his Nerf gun the other night, his mother told me, “in case them come to our house.”