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WASHINGTON (AP) — The top watchdog for the U.S. Capitol Police will testify for the first time on Thursday about the department’s broad failures before and during the Jan. 6 insurrection, including missed intelligence predicting a “war”…

I’m the proud granddaughter of two courageous sugarcane farmer workers from south Louisiana. In 1972, Gustave Rhodes and a fellow worker filed a class-action lawsuit against the then-secretary of Agriculture for wages owed by Louisiana’s…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Wednesday announced the District will be receiving four times the usual amount of federal funding to combat homelessness because of the Biden administration’s recent stimulus bill.

A reconstruction shows how failures of planning and preparation left police at the Capitol severely disadvantaged on Jan. 6

The D.C. National Guard’s deployment of helicopters to quell racial justice demonstrations in Washington last summer, a chilling scene in which two aircraft hovered extremely low over clusters of protesters, was a misuse of military…

DC statehood legislation is on its way to approval in the U.S. House after a committee advanced it on Wednesday.

Democrats embark on a new long-shot mission to give 700,000 Americans voting representation in Congress.

District residents 65 years and older can get vaccinated at one of 10 walk-up sites across the city starting next week, the city announced on Wednesday.

The District will offer walk-up coronavirus vaccination clinics for seniors starting Monday, furthering its efforts to reach residents who have not yet signed up through the city’s preregistration portal.

The bill to make D.C. a state is headed to the House floor for a vote next week, after the House Committee on Oversight and Reform passed the measure on party lines during Wednesday’s markup.

Starting Monday, D.C. residents 65 and older can get COVID-19 vaccines at walk-up sites across the District without making an appointment in advance.

The chairman is going to do this the hard way.

DC Brau Brewing Co., the first packaging brewery to open inside D.C. since the Christian Heurich Brewery closed in 1956, marks its 10th anniversary this week.

An investigation by the U.S. Army faults the D.C. National Guard’s use of helicopters during the city’s June 2020 protests that followed the murder of George Floyd, finding that one helicopter hovered as low as 100 feet above protesters.

Two students who are serving sentences in the DC Jail have filed a lawsuit against D.C. Public Schools and the State Superintendent of Education, claiming that the city hasn’t offered any virtual or in-person instruction to kids in custody…

D.C. is getting a significant boost from the federal government in an effort to combat homelessness and housing scarcity in the District.

Legislation to make D.C. the 51st state advanced from the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday, paving the way for approval by the full House for the second consecutive year — possibly as soon as next week.

The new program is designed to help residents pay rent or utilities.

Anyone over the age of 16 who lives or works in the District is now eligible for a coronavirus vaccination. But as public health and community leaders embark on the campaign to get the general population vaccinated, D.C. is still…

Howard University College of Medicine has received $1.59 million to build mobile vaccination units and to boost vaccinations in Black and other medically underserved communities.