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Children’s National Hospital is investigating three cases of an inflammatory disease affecting children with potential links to COVID-19.

Tanya Lott has an infectious laugh. Maybe that’s a bad metaphor for the coronavirus era, but there’s no better way to put it. When she laughs, I laugh. And in a recent phone conversation, we laughed a lot.

A federal judge hearing a class-action lawsuit against the D.C. Department of Corrections over conditions at the D.C. Jail during the pandemic was told Monday the jail population has declined as the city took steps to prevent an internal…

D.C. bars and restaurants at risk of going under said business may improve if they’re allowed to take more of it outside once it’s safe for the District to begin reopening.

Attendance continues to be one of the biggest challenges so far.

At least five contract security officers have tested positive for the coronavirus at the New York Avenue homeless shelter in Northeast Washington, D.C.

In the 1970s and ’80s, when Richard Paul Thornell would go with his sons to the grocery store and return late, his wife would teasingly ask, “Did you run into someone from the Peace Corps?” Usually, the answer was yes.

Parking Management Inc., one of Greater Washington's largest and longest-standing parking operators, has filed for bankruptcy protection as the ongoing coronavirus outbreak has exacerbated a slump in demand.

The latest medical mystery surrounding the novel coronavirus’s impact on children has arrived in the District.

Parents across the U.S. are realizing just how hard it can be to educate a child now that so many schools have had to close and transition into distance learning during the coronavirus pandemic.

Happy Monday. As part of DC's preparations for a projected surge in COVID-19 infections later this month, Mayor Muriel Bowser today unveiled the 437-bed "alternative care site" in Hall A of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

Flor Morales’ two-year-old son doesn’t understand that his grandmother has died. She has tried to explain it to him the best way she knows how, but the boy continues to pound his little fist on the door to the basement unit, where his nana…

The D.C. government has quietly cut the funding for its street mural program, marking another financial hit for local artists who rely on government grants for income.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the time finally came, they laid Joanne Paylor to rest the finest way they could during a pandemic. A church service was out. The viewing had to be socially distanced. Golden chairs for the outdoor memorial service…

An office building one block from Union Station that counts US Citizenship and Immigration Services among its tenants is on the way to gaining a couple of stories and a rooftop venue.

A new 443-bed field hospital in the Washington Convention Center is ready to start taking COVID-19 patients if the city’s hospitals become overwhelmed with cases.

Metro expects to increase rail service only slightly during the next four months and will close a number of stations during the summer for maintenance, according to a three-part Covid-19 recovery plan released Monday by the Washington…