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When Hollie Wong came to D.C. in 1987 from Hong Kong, she missed the tea houses of her youth. They represented community and togetherness. She says when she was growing up, tea was offered at every social event. “When you come to my home,…

D.C. Council members opened a budget hearing Monday to repeated calls for defunding the Metropolitan Police Department amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

MPD's most recent police stop data indicates little has changed with the racial imbalance of stop and frisk in the District.

Proponents hope to secure a voting majority in both chambers of Congress in January 2021.

Plans for a new halfway house in D.C. are meeting growing resistance.

Happy Monday. Former at-large Council member Vincent Orange is hoping for a political comeback, signing up to run as an independent for his former seat — four years after the longtime Democrat lost re-election.

Impassioned pleas to defund the D.C. police were aired during a virtual public hearing held Monday by the D.C. Council committee considering the department’s proposed budget.

Starting Saturday, visitors will again be able to wander through the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden. The 6.1-acre garden is home to 21 modern artworks by artists including Ellsworth Kelly, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Roy…

With her Smithsonian ID card dangling from her neck, Dwandalyn Reece summoned the museum staff to almost exactly the spot where President Trump had stood days earlier, posing for a picture with a Bible.