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Two groups of U.S. governors said Monday they are coordinating efforts to gradually restart the economies in their states. While there’s been no formal pact between leaders in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, the three jurisdictions have been…

Music venues, galleries, museums and theaters are shut down across the District, leaving hundreds of local artists with nowhere to present or sell their work during the coronavirus outbreak.

My friend Amy Phillips is a public defender in Washington. She visited the D.C. jail last week, just before most legal visits were curtailed because of fears about covid-19. I asked her to describe what she saw, as well as her fears and…

Performance artists are trying everything to stay limber during the coronavirus shutdown.

During his coronavirus press briefing Monday evening, President Trump was asked if D.C. should get the same level of coronavirus relief as the 50 states — which thus far it has not. Trump said he would consider whether D.C. should get more…

George Washington University has opened 65 dorm rooms on its Foggy Bottom campus to house medical professionals fighting the novel coronavirus, university officials said, amid tension with some students who have protested being denied the…

D.C. is extending the closure of a section of Beach Drive to vehicle traffic, and Montgomery County, Maryland, is opening up parkways on weekends for recreational use.

You know what might brighten up home delivery for some people during this virus craziness? Strippers. A person wearing just enough to call it clothing, delivering food and drink to your door. Or perhaps a more buxom individual suggestively…

Sara Gilgore will be leading The Beat and DC Inno starting Tuesday.

Federalist Pig might be coming to Upshur Street. &pizza co-founder Steve Salis bought the building that formerly housed Slim’s Diner for $2.2 million, and one tentative plan is to use the space for a pop-up version of his Adams Morgan…

In the days after COVID-19 shut down D.C.’s dining scene, chef Christian Irabién changed course. The virus tabled his plans to open an unannounced restaurant with Comet Ping Pong and Buck’s Fishing & Camping, but he still had the…

She blew her horn at presidents, congressmen and D.C. politicians — often from between her legs. She rode a horse through city streets agitating for D.C. statehood and ran for mayor nine times, most recently when she was 91 years old. She…

A Washington, DC, inmate who died Monday had pleaded in court to be released weeks ago because of fears coronavirus would spread at the jail.

A spate of violence in the District left at least 10 people shot and two others stabbed from Easter Sunday evening into early Monday in assaults that occurred in virtually every quadrant of the District. Police said a 19-year-old man was…

Moments after Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that the District's death toll from the coronavirus had climbed to 52 people, she had to report a 53rd fatality: a 51-year-old man in the custody of the DC Department of Corrections.

A group of scientists advising Virginia’s government said Monday that social distancing in the state appears to be working, and their models show the state’s hospitals have enough beds to handle the coronavirus outbreak for the next few…

The pain was going to be worth it. Easter Brown opened her mouth as wide as she could as a dentist yanked out the seven teeth she had left. At 77 years old, she was finally going to get a full set of dentures. She went home toothless that…

“We’re just trying to take it day by day and not give up hope.”

Steve Salis, the co-founder of &pizza and owner of several prominent D.C. restaurants, just bought the building that once housed Slim’s Diner in Petworth — and now he’s eyeing a new pop-up for the space.

Hospital workers at United Medical Center in the District have been assembling more than 200 plastic face shields, whose parts were donated to their union by charity, to protect themselves against the novel coronavirus.