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Marilee Shapiro Asher works in twos: two husbands, two children. And now, two pandemics.

“If someone else comes into the hospital with more dire conditions we don’t want to make that decision for you but we’re going to have to do that.”

At a press briefing last Monday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser drew attention to two District neighborhoods that, official data showed, had strikingly high concentrations of coronavirus cases: Columbia Heights and 16th Street Heights, both…

Washingtonians are starting to crack.

Many local restaurants have been stepping up in a big way during the coronavirus pandemic and donating food to the community, but Pizzeria Paradiso has the particularly ambitious goal of donating 10,000 pizzas over the course of 10 weeks. …

During a normal year, Mother’s Day Sunday would be a day to look forward to for the Old Ebbitt Grill in Northwest Washington.

We’ve found a Frontline Hero getting the job done during the coronavirus pandemic as a 911 call taker.

The Cheesecake Factory’s menu has more than 160 items on it, and that’s before you count the varieties of their eponymous dessert. One section calls out new additions. “The world’s largest menu just got bigger,” it brags.

Embattled e-cigarette manufacturer JUUL Labs is moving its headquarters from San Francisco to D.C., where it can be closer to lawmakers and regulators — but will still face a range of possible restrictions on its products from…

And what she has to say about it.

It was not unusual for Dr. Alyce Gullattee to wander alone down alleys in Northwest Washington, at the height of the crack epidemic of the 1980s, searching for a patient she feared had overdosed.

Dr. Dorothy Height was a titan of the Civil Rights Movement, and when she died in 2010 at age 98, President Obama delivered her eulogy. He also signed a bill sponsored by Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s…

While the governors of Virginia and Maryland say they are moving toward an initial reopening of their economies as early as mid-May, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday that she’s not yet setting a date for when D.C. might follow suit.

Tourism revenue and visitor spending in the District has nose-dived since the coronavirus crisis started, D.C. officials said at a news conference Wednesday.

Some U.S. cities have halted construction activity during stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But in the D.C. area, not only have ongoing projects been allowed to continue, developers are breaking ground on several…

With so much happening in D.C. over the last few months, you could be forgiven for forgetting that we have an election coming up (in fact, we have two).

The coronavirus has already killed two of Sierra’s friends. She says her sister is sick. So is her half-sister’s mother, and another friend.

The Downtown DC Business Improvement District has begun economy tracking during the COVID-19 emergency, and as of April 24, it estimates the downtown D.C. economy is operating at less than 10% of its pre-emergency levels.

Until recently, weekend visitors to Eastern Market would have encountered Leda Black among the lively assembly of vendors. Black’s setup, the Female Power Project, offered prints, scarves, and other products designed to spark conversation…

Every year, more than 700,000 green card holders are naturalized in the U.S., including more than 1,600 in D.C. as of 2018. For some, the path towards citizenship—let alone a green card—can be hindered by a complicated legal process and…