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THE D.C. Council last week adopted sweeping emergency legislation aimed at reforming police practices — and came in for some swift criticism. Officials of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s administration and the police union said the council rushed…

The District reported a new peak in community spread of the coronavirus on Saturday, moving the city back from 11 days of sustained decline to nine.

We all know why the patch of real estate just north of the White House has been in the news lately.

An increase in drownings in the Potomac River has led local fire departments to remind swimmers that it is not only dangerous but illegal to swim in certain areas.

Federal authorities announced a reward last week in a fourth fire they said was set in the District during disorder that followed protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Dozens of protesters descended Saturday evening on the Northwest D.C. home of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), demanding that she defund the police as they chanted and danced to music at what they called a block party.

While large swaths of downtown D.C. were closed to vehicular traffic and largely free of the big protests the city has seen over the last two weeks, a livelier scene was to be found on the small residential street in front of Mayor Muriel…

In a statement released Saturday, the U.S. Secret Service admitted to using pepper spray to disperse the crowd of protesters at the north side of Lafayette Square on June 1.

Using the hashtag #YouthSpeakUp, hundreds of parents and their children gathered in the District Saturday for a discussion and a walk from Freedom Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue to Black Lives Matter Plaza near Lafayette Square.