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The following is a transcript of an interview with DC Public Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee with "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan.

A new study of children tested for COVID-19 in D.C. revealed significant racial and socioeconomic disparities, both in test positivity rates and known exposure to the virus. The study is published in the journal Pediatrics.

The Greater Washington Community Foundation has $1 million in grant money to award local arts and culture organizations struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As evictions begin in neighboring jurisdictions, tenants insist payments plans won’t cut it.

Three key figures in DC's concert industry talk about how they're holding up and what comes next.

Behind D.C.’s “once in a lifetime opportunity” to acquire Georgetown Day School’s former property.

For nearly 20 years, government agencies had been trying to redevelop Buzzard Point, but they always faced the same issue: Nobody with money seemed to know where it was.

America’s oldest continually-operating jazz supper club may soon have to close in D.C.

Local and national leaders pushed back Wednesday against President Trump’s desire to deliver his convention acceptance speech from the White House, warning that the event could bring protests and novel coronavirus spread to the nation’s…

Washington’s popular NPR affiliate, WAMU, sought to expand its regional news operations in early 2018 when it acquired DCist, a local news site that had recently shut down. The station pumped money and resources into the operation,…

The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the Smithsonian Institution to consider how its museums and facilities in the D.C. area can be more effective and nimble in the 21st century when they reopen.

A D.C. police officer who has worked for the department for more than three decades has been charged with violating the civil rights of two people in separate July 2018 incidents involving illegal chokeholds, according to court filings.

D.C. officials are urging parents to be diligent about visiting their doctors for child wellness checkups and vaccinations, despite the all-remote learning start to the school year for public schools amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Antwon Gibson’s public high school in Northeast Washington didn’t even attempt to teach his “independent living” class virtually this spring. The gregarious 18-year-old has an intellectual disability and reads and performs math below grade…

A new study sheds light on the pervasive pattern of racial disparities in denied mortgage applications.

Students at Georgetown University are reeling after the university released financial aid packages on Friday, as some discovered that their assistance would be significantly reduced for the fall semester. Nearly 1,000 students, alumni, and…

The D.C. Board of Elections said Wednesday an initiative to decriminalize psychedelic plants, including “magic mushrooms,” will appear on November’s ballot after supporters gathered more than 25,000 signatures amid the coronavirus…

After two mothers said they were traumatized following an encounter with U.S. Secret Service officers last week on the National Mall, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is demanding more answers about what happened.

The D.C. Police Union is suing the District government over emergency police reforms enacted in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis and the renewed movement for racial justice.

It’s a fight over D.C.’s streets, literally.