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With the coronavirus pandemic still humming in the background and calls from D.C. government officials to enjoy fireworks at home and not in public, the scene on the National Mall was relatively sparse but nonetheless intense.

An 11-year-old was shot and killed Saturday night in Southeast D.C., according to police. The boy was identified Sunday morning as Davon McNeal of Southeast.

Davon McNeal never missed a football practice. He would call his coach each day and ask: “What time are you picking me up?”

More than two centuries after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Americans converged on the Mall on Saturday for the Fourth of July during a season of protests over racial injustice, bringing with them clashing notions of what…

In the red, white, and blue glare of fireworks, a group of protesters and Trump supporters faced off near the Washington Monument.

During the 244th birthday of America, amid grand displays of patriotism on the National Mall and at the White House, the American flag burned outside Lafayette Square in protest of racial injustice in the country.

If you had been traveling on a train north from Washington in 1870, you could have looked out the window as you approached Bladensburg and caught a glimpse of a complex famed for its marriage of artistry and industry: the studio and…

Sports have a wonderful capacity to bring people and communities together. A change in the name of the Washington football team offers exciting new opportunities. As we wrote back in 1992, “We can do better.”Sports have a wonderful…

As the Boone Elementary School community continues to embark on the search for a new principal, an employee critical of what’s been described as militaristic classroom management practices has taken steps to further highlight the nature of…

When Helima Croft was growing up in Anacostia during the 1980s, she would often get “the question” from her father, Howard Croft.