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The Capitol Hill Baptist Church is suing D.C. and the mayor over the city’s mass gathering restrictions, and the U.S. Department of Justice is stepping in to support the church in its fight.

Early this morning, President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump announced they had tested positive for coronavirus and will spend the next 10 days in the White House. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office confirmed that DC Health…

Shakespeare Theatre has not been able to put on live shows in D.C. for months.

Like many local businesses, Songbyrd Music House & Record Cafe’s operations were upended by the coronavirus pandemic this spring, with new restrictions around dining and live music hindering its food and drink offerings and venue…

When the Sojourner Truth Public Charter School asked families if they wanted in-person learning this school year, China White and her mother, Izu Ahaghotu, easily answered: yes.

“We are today at war. It is not a war that you can see. . . . It is a war of ideologies. I believe our greatest weapon in today’s kind of war is not our wealth, not our missiles, not our atom bombs, but rather it is the ideal of ‘freedom…

The D.C. Central Kitchen’s signature fundraiser, the 17th annual Capital Food Fight, which pits local chefs and celebrities against each other in cooking challenges, will be virtual this year.

Seventeen of the candidates running for the D.C. Council’s hotly contested at-large seats staked out a wide range of positions during more than four hours of debate this week about how the city should confront its months-long public health…

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has helped millions more American families access food. Temporary flexibility on SNAP rules has helped many states enroll new participants more…

The hollowing out of D.C.’s office buildings could make it especially difficult for the city’s economy to recover from the coronavirus crisis, according to a new report prepared for the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, leading the business group…

For more than six months of the pandemic, the upper part of Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park has been transformed from a commuter pipeline to a recreational oasis.

"They understand that they’re right here in the nation’s capital, and that they have a voice that can echo across this nation.”

The call that came into state capitals stunned governors and their National Guard commanders: The Pentagon wanted thousands of citizen soldiers airlifted to the nation’s capital immediately to help control crowds outside the White House in…

DC Councilmembers are demanding action on potentially toxic lead dangers at D.C. public school playgrounds first exposed by WUSA9.

The dispute continues: are the traffic cameras about safety or are they about revenue? If you ask residents of the 2400 block of North Capitol Street, many of them believe safety. They want cameras in their area because they say speeding…

The Washington Teachers’ Union said it told its members to ignore a school system letter emailed this week asking staff members to select whether they plan to teach in person in the upcoming months or stay home.

A series of three virtual online forums for at-large D.C. Council candidates running in the Nov. 3 election organized jointly by the community service and entertainment group Team Rayceen Productions, the Washington Blade, and the Gertrude…

Two days after tentatively deciding not to hold a vote for an endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and three Democratic D.C. Council candidates, the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club on Wednesday reversed course and will…

The D.C. government last week launched a pilot program to gradually bring back live music.

The DC Board of Elections made history this week: it began mailing ballots to every voter in the District, so everyone has the opportunity to vote by mail. The first batch of ballots was mailed to voters this week, and two more batches…