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WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen Native American leaders and organizations sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday calling for the league to force Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder to change the team name…

While his counterparts are beheaded, toppled and pitched into dark waters across the nation, Christopher Columbus seems largely ignored in the nation’s capital these days.

More than a month has passed since the world watched in horror as a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd by applying lethal pressure to the 46-year-old Black man’s neck while fellow officers stood there and watched.

After a three-month temporary closure, Calvert Woodley Wine and Spirits In D.C.’s Van Ness neighborhood, one of the largest and busiest liquor stores in the District, has reopened for business.

An hour before activists gathered downtown to press D.C. lawmakers for millions in additional housing funds, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announced he will propose another $25 million for public housing repairs in the city’s 2021…

Kwame Onwuachi has stepped down as a executive chef of the InterContinental Washington D.C.'s Kith/Kin restaurant.

The death of 11-year-old Davon McNeal, who was shot and killed in Southeast D.C. on the night of the Fourth of July after a community cookout, has officials “saddened and outraged,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said during a briefing Monday.

Advocates of a ballot initiative to change how D.C.’s laws on magic mushrooms and other psychedelic plants are enforced have submitted what they say are enough signatures to put the issue to voters in November.

Cintia Cabib set out to produce a documentary on a single Washington artist. She wound up making a film about two — and about the ways that the seeds of creativity, when nurtured, can grow in the rockiest soil.