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The music video for the song “I Ask Why” starts with scenes of young Black children playing on playgrounds or getting off school buses. One of those children raps lyrics about past shootings in the District involving children.

Metro Center, Gallery Place and Union Station — some of the busiest transfer stations in the Metro system — are closing starting tomorrow through Thursday due to inauguration.

How could D.C. leaders slow the tide of lawsuits challenging large development projects? It could be as simple as changing who’s allowed to file a lawsuit.

Gaithersburg biotech Novavax Inc. is getting support for its Covid-19 vaccine program from another local organization: Howard University.

Jeff Marootian, director of the District Department of Transportation, is leaving his post to join the climate team in the administration of President-elect Joe Biden.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is again planning some deep service and job cuts next year unless the federal government steps up and gives a third round of financial support.

A Metro committee has agreed to send the 2022 budget for public comment. It avoids major cuts, but members said that’s temporary if more help doesn’t come soon.

January could be one of the worst months yet for the already hard-hit industry.

Martin Di Caro is the newly announced host of History As It Happens, a podcast at the Washington Times that seeks to view current events through the lens of history.

Police are erecting fences and using concrete barricades to block off streets in downtown D.C. ahead of the presidential inauguration. About 20,000 National Guard members are filing into the city in an attempt to prevent another…

The longstanding cultural news website and events organizer Brightest Young Things has announced it will effectively shut down on January 20.

About midway between the Yard, the quadrangle at the heart of Howard University’s campus, and the historic nightlife strip of U Street NW stands a compact brick Georgian building. Stacks of quoins rise up from Bryant Street, stepping back…

The head of D.C.’s Department of Transportation is headed to the White House.

Six-year-old U Street gastropub Fainting Goat joins the growing list of D.C. restaurants adding a ghost kitchen to its operations — restaurant extensions with menus that are solely for takeout and/or delivery — to help get it through the…

After a tree fell, the backyard studio where artist Lou Stovall screen printed his own and others’ artwork for nearly 50 years had to be razed—but his legacy persists.

The Capitol dome sits atop a hill, a symbol of American democracy for everyone except the actual residents of D.C., taxpayers whose representation in its marbled halls is limited to one non-voting delegate. … And yet, watching rioters…

D.C. education officials are asking public schools to release their reopening plans to their respective communities by the end of the week, as the District targets Feb. 1 for the resumption of in-person learning.

Should seniors in neighborhoods hardest hit by COVID-19 be given priority in vaccine appointments?

Jeff Marootian, the director of D.C.’s Department of Transportation, just got a job in the Biden administration: He’ll serve as the Special Assistant to the President for Climate and Science Agency Personnel.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will shut down 13 Metro stations, many of them near the White House or Capitol Hill, starting Friday as authorities continue to prepare for potential violence leading up to the…