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The fencing in Lafayette Square that was taken down after the height of protests in D.C. following the killing of George Floyd has been replaced after a failed attempt to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson.

Friday’s expected successful House vote on D.C. statehood will be a historic milestone. But it is just one step in a long journey toward the day when a D.C. mayor can issue a proclamation for the first elections to Congress of two U.S.…

The president’s crackdown in the capital exposes its vulnerability to authoritarianism.

A line of D.C. police blocked part of 16th Street Tuesday as protesters crowded against them, inflamed by the dismantling of first aid and supply stations earlier in the day. Behind the police, black fencing once again blocked entrance to…

Someday, when scholars attempt to convey the historical undulations of the year 2020, they will write about pestilence, mass death, catastrophic job losses, state violence, oceans of protesters flooding city streets in the name of racial…

Two military helicopters roared over demonstrators in Washington protesting after the death of George Floyd, producing winds equivalent to a tropical storm.

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The fencing in Lafayette Square that was taken down after the height of protests in D.C. following the killing of George Floyd will be put back up.

Tensions again flared on D.C. streets this week after groups of protesters erected barricades and set up tents and signs declaring an “autonomous zone” on city streets near the White House.

D.C. police lined streets around the White House on Tuesday, periodically clearing out tents, barricades and other structures built by protesters seeking to create an autonomous zone in the area that has been at the center of weeks of…