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Happy Tuesday. Fans of DC Council budget debates will get an extra showing this week, with a key second vote on the local budget postponed until Thursday after skirmishing this afternoon that lawmakers themselves characterized as a…

A major traffic safety bill passed its first hurdle at the D.C. Council meeting on Tuesday. The bill has more than a dozen provisions, from accelerating infrastructure projects to educating drivers and creating stricter traffic laws to…

One lawmaker called it a “debacle.” Another said it was “embarrassing.”

As students prepare for a semester that has already been marred by the novel coronavirus, Georgetown University announced it will offer tuition discounts to many undergraduate students starting classes in August, officials said Tuesday.

The chairman of the D.C. Council on Tuesday abandoned his own proposal to tax advertising, leaving city officials scrambling to figure out what to cut from the budget to make up for an estimated $18 million loss in projected revenue.

D.C. just took another step toward bringing two new hospitals to the city.