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Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian Institution's new secretary, says one of his first goals leading the nearly 175-year-old cultural institution will be creating what he refers to as “the virtual Smithsonian.”

Earlier this year, the development team creating a new mixed-income community at the site of the Sursum Corda Cooperative unveiled a different look for the proposed project. Now, revised plans would put more eyes on the street.

They exchanged more than 1,000 text messages in four months. Police said she was selling sex around the District’s Logan and Thomas circles. They said he was her pimp.

The 50-year-old Embassy of Australia building on D.C.’s Scott Circle will close in November ahead of its demolition and the construction of its 133,000-square-foot replacement.

A new pilot is set to take the helm at the Smithsonian Institution.

Lonnie G. Bunch III — the dynamic founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture — has been appointed secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, becoming the first African American leader in…

At a recent panel discussion entitled “The Future of Everything,” Ted Leonsis talked about how gambling is going to fundamentally change the way fans watch sports, whether they’re in the arena or watching from elsewhere.

Library officials will discuss initial design concepts and other project details

Mary Gerace has lived in the District since 1963 and loves it. But at 73, she worries that someday she may become too frail to stay in the rent-controlled third-floor walk-up apartment in Glover Park where she has lived for 42 years. Then,…

Hack. Hack. Hack. The tattooed ex-boxer hacked at the cutting board with a 10-inch chef’s knife. “No. That’s not right,” chef Carletta Fletcher said, taking the knife and grimacing at the juicy green swamp he’d made out of a roll of basil…

Good Tuesday morning. Today the DC Council votes for the final time on the fiscal 2020 budget. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson’s attempt to use millions from Events DC’s reserves to make urgent public housing repairs is still being…

Recycling isn’t exactly thriving in the nation’s capital. D.C.’s waste diversion rate (the percentage of waste diverted from the landfill or incinerator by recycling or other efforts) hovers around 23%. San Francisco’s rate is 80%, and…

An estimated $16 million per year would fund social services instead, under amendment expected to pass.

Teddy Palmore had a decision. “I was deciding between one ‘T’ or two ‘Ts’ and I guess I decided right,” Palmore said.

Maurice Scott broke into bashful smiles as he talked about the monuments and museums of his hometown in a video produced at Somerset Prep DC, the charter school in Southeast Washington where he was in ninth grade.

The D.C. Council could vote soon on funding two public hospitals at once.

Police are actively searching for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Southeast D.C. teenager killed near his school on Sunday morning.

Memorial Day is when we honor those who wore a uniform and died defending our country. But here was Leroy Tonic, very much alive Friday afternoon at the District Building, the guest of honor in a ceremony thanking him for his service…

D.C. LAWMAKERS have finally decided to do something about the wasteful spending at the troubled public hospital in Southeast. We wish we could applaud the move to cap spending and eventually close the hospital, but it is long overdue and —…

An ongoing dispute between District lawmakers and the city’s chief financial officer threatens to derail tens of millions of dollars in proposed renovations to dangerously neglected public housing complexes.