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D.C. firefighters and police officers on Saturday rescued eight adults and four children who became trapped on rocks in the Potomac River and were cut off from shore by rapidly rising waters in a sudden rainstorm.

Three groups of people fishing and picnicking escaped a treacherous situation on the Potomac River with help from D.C. Fire and EMS, and police, when surging waters cut them off from the safety of shore on Saturday afternoon.

FreshFarm announced the inclusion of four new Dupont vendors.

Mayor Muriel Bowser made the call yesterday: with 15 days of decline in the community spread metric—one more than the goal—the city would make the move to Phase Two of its reopening plan on Monday.

Rolls of thunder and the tap-tap-tap of intermittent rain provided the soundtrack for protests in Washington on Saturday, the fourth week of demonstrations in the District against racial inequality and the systemic mistreatment of black…

"There's no more sweeping these harsh realities under the rug, putting on Band-Aids over the scars. It's time we held everyone accountable."

Cheering demonstrators jumped up and down as the 11-foot (3.4-meter) statue of Albert Pike — wrapped with chains — wobbled on its high granite pedestal before falling backward, landing in a pile of dust. Protesters then set a bonfire and…

By Saturday morning, there was little left but a graffiti-covered pedestal at the site of the only outdoor Confederate statue in the nation’s capital.

For a period in the early 1990s and again in the wake of white supremacist violence in Charlottesvile in 2017, activists and city officials alike called for the removal of a statue of a Confederate general that stands in Judiciary Square.…