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Just because the courts are open does not mean players are able to play like they did before the pandemic.

In the wake of protests over police brutality, some are left asking whether the D.C. police force’s budget is too big and oversight of the department is too meager.

At 1:30 a.m., Michael and Joan Kim were jolted awake by an alarm. Lying in bed, they grabbed their iPhones and watched what a security camera had captured moments before: the back of a U-Haul van ramming through the glass side wall of the…

Protesters hit the streets of D.C. for the sixth day in a row Wednesday as local leaders eased up restrictions on the demonstrations. The protests that have been going on in the U.S. and worldwide for several days were spurred by the…

What appeared to be hundreds of Army National Guard troops were shuttled into the Marriott Marquis next to the Washington Convention Center in downtown D.C. this week.

A major architecture firm is moving from Georgetown, the city's traditional hub for design companies, to an emerging neighborhood in Northeast D.C.

St. John’s Episcopal Church for decades has been the cheery-yellow backdrop for smiling presidents going to worship on holidays or before their swearings-in. In the past few days, its exterior — across Lafayette Square from the White House…

Earlier this year, all across the city, there was an acknowledgment that we need to do more for low-income students, including homeless children and those in foster care. Nearly half of all D.C. public school students are identified as…

Happy Wednesday. Two of the three DC Council incumbents facing challengers in yesterday’s Democratic primary have clearly prevailed — even with potentially tens of thousands of absentee ballots still left to count. The other, Ward 4’s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Guard of the District of Columbia is investigating the use of one of its helicopters to make a “show of force” against protesters near the White House, while President Donald Trump is encouraging authorities…

Some of the most striking pictures our photographer has captured of a historic week in our city.

The noise protests, known as cacerolazos, are a way to show support while social distancing.

Two longtime members of the D.C. Council will not be taking seats next year after apparently losing in Democratic primary elections on Tuesday.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser relaxed a citywide curfew on Wednesday after a night of mostly peaceful demonstrations in the nation’s capital to protest the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police.

On Monday night, clashes between police and demonstrators culminated in a particularly intense confrontation on and around Swann Street, and on Wednesday police chief Peter Newsham defended the actions of officers involved.

As looters targeted businesses in D.C. during severe unrest that broke out in the early morning hours Monday over George Floyd’s death, one business on U Street was hit particularly hard.

Dr. Janice Blanchard worries about her commute this week, which takes her past the White House. Police and federal law enforcement are heavy on the roads she drives to the George Washington University Hospital, where she works as an…

One of many memorable photos snapped during the recent protests in the nation’s capital shows a D.C. police officer on a knee, shaking hands with a woman in front of him.