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D.C. announced it will shut down its coronavirus testing sites on Monday because of “dangerously hot temperatures.”

Coronavirus testing at D.C.-run sites will be called off Monday due to high temps, city officials said.

With health experts in agreement that wearing a face mask helps slow the spread of coronavirus, the ACLU’s D.C. branch penned an open letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser asking her to make masks mandatory for all District police officers.

With temperatures expected to peak in the upper 90s today and early next week, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has activated the city’s heat emergency plan through Wednesday.

The U.S. flag flew at half-staff, a woman hung her head over a cardboard placard, and on a street corner, a man shouted, “This is for you, John Lewis,” before singing “Stand By Me.”

It is a sad fact of history that there was a time when a food market could also accommodate a human market.

Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners, councilmembers and representatives from the police department and mayor’s office held a virtual town hall on Saturday to start the discussion of re-imagining policing within the District.

Flags are flying at half-staff on Capitol Hill Saturday in honor of Rep. John Lewis who died at the age of 80 Friday night after a battle with cancer.

In one of his last public appearances, civil rights icon and longtime U.S. Rep. John Lewis visited Black Lives Matter Plaza in the District, where protests against police brutality and systemic racism have been ongoing for nearly two…

The D.C. Board of Elections has signed off on a plan to mail every registered voter in the city a ballot ahead of the November election.