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D.C. reported no deaths from COVID-19 for the fourth day in a row Monday, the longest stretch of days without related deaths since the District reported its first coronavirus-related death in March.

The D.C. government will conduct a citywide survey to study the spread of coronavirus antibodies throughout the District.

Washington’s football team is retiring its name, a racial slur for Native Americans. The logo will go, too. The news comes during a national reckoning on racial inequality and after corporate sponsors pushed the team to modify its…

Happy Monday. Washington's football team officially announced today it will be changing its name.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The posters started blanketing light posts just a few weeks after the city entered what would be a monthslong stay-at-home order. Vividly colored and bearing a three-headed mushroom, they asked Washingtonians to “reform…

Washington's NFL team may rename itself for this very endangered species

Washington’s NFL franchise officially announced Monday it will drop its controversial nickname after 87 years, signaling the imminent end of an era in which the franchise was labeled with a dictionary-defined racial slur.

After a homicide in Fort Davis on Sunday, the District officially passed 100 homicides this year, according to Metropolitan Police Department data.

For as much debate as the Washington Redskins’ team name has generated over decades, there has been just as much contention in guessing, and attempting to profit from, what the new one will be.

The statement from the team uses the outgoing name seven times.