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Seven streets in D.C. are now all but closed outside traffic so that the people who live there can safely enjoy some outdoor space during the coronavirus pandemic.

The crowd swarming the fence north of the White House turned its attention from the rows of riot police on the other side of the barrier to one of their own. A young man had scaled the street sign at 16th and H streets last Tuesday night…

By 4 p.m. Monday, Black Lives Matter Plaza was less crowded than it has been since it got its new name Friday. After a surge of demonstrators over the weekend, it seemed like the 11th consecutive day of protests in D.C. proved to be one…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that she had no plans to defund the police department, despite calls to do so around the city and across the country in response to George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.

LeBron James retweeted her. Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis posed for pictures with her. “Morning Joe” wanted her on MSNBC.

For much of the past two years, two corrections companies dueling over a federal contract have sown confusion over where District men returning from prison will live.

WASHINGTON (AP) — That massive fence erected around Lafayette Park, which the National Park Service said will partially reopen Wednesday, has become a do-it-yourself gallery of protest art.

“ICONIC PLACE for civil discourse.” That is the National Park Service description of the grounds around the White House, and until recently it was apt. Generations of Americans have gone there to speak out on issues of their day. Sadly,…

Happy Monday. With the DC Council set to meet tomorrow amid the ongoing protests over police brutality, local leaders are expected to debate and vote on a police reform measure.

Democratic Party insiders say another fast-rising star should be in the mix of prospective Joe Biden running mates: Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser.

The DC Public Library now has unlimited copies of "White Fragility" and other books to download.

As the protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer stretched into their eleventh day in Washington, District leaders proposed significant reforms to the city’s police force, saying the protesters have…

After recent high-profile battles with President Donald Trump, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is getting new shine as a potential vice president on the Democratic ticket, according to Business Insider.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are calling on President Donald Trump to immediately reopen Lafayette Square in D.C., which was recently closed to the public following a wave of protests after the death…

A sweeping police reform bill introduced by House and Senate Democrats on Monday would do lots of things if passed: prohibit the use of chokeholds, lower legal standards to pursue criminal and civil penalties for police misconduct, ban…

The District Department of Transportation has laid out seven stretches of road for its “Slow Streets” initiative, which will give residents more space to social distance while moving around outside.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday called on President Trump to reopen Lafayette Square, one week after authorities pushed back largely peaceful protesters by charging at…

The police say protesters were kicking in doors. People who were there tell very different stories.

While DC closed out May with blanket speed limit reductions across many "local" streets, Mayor Bowser and the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) are now taking another incremental step toward making streets more hospitable for…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser responded Monday to criticisms and calls to defund the police that have been made by protesters marching through the District in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody in Minneapolis.