D.C. Interim Police Chief Peter Newsham told CNN that there were “maybe a couple of hundred” or so protesters who were acting ...

At 8:20 a.m., crowds around the turnstiles to leave L’Enfant Plaza, one of the closest stations to the Mall. (Fenit ...

Donald Trump on Friday came to the Capitol, where he placed his left hand on an old Bible, raised his right hand and repeated ...

It was a sweltering summer day when Taronica White first stepped foot into the yard as a new correctional officer at a maximum-security federal prison in Coleman, Fla. Before she started her shift, ...

A 17-year-old was killed and an off-duty D.C. police officer suffered life-threatening injuries after authorities said at least 20 people were shot when a dispute broke out early Sunday at a cookout ...

The plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit say the city’s jail knew it was feeding them vermin and didn’t do enough to fix the problem. The lawmakers cited safety concerns with the FAA's use of AI to ...

For several decades, the neighbors had maintained an uneasy coexistence with the Northwest Washington strip bar, at one point forging an agreement that banned the proprietor from putting up signs that ...

An internal Harvard University review from five years ago suggested Asian American applicants would be let into the undergraduate college in much greater numbers if academic performance were the only ...

KING GEORGE COUNTY, Va. — Richard and Lisa Stuart were walking beside the Potomac River when they noticed an odd rock in the riprap on the water's edge. “I think that’s a headstone,” Richard Stuart ...

At least 1,400 Virginia voters have received duplicate absentee ballots in recent weeks because of clerical errors, but election officials said Friday only one ballot per voter would be counted.

Nobel Prize winner James Heckman’s research has played an important role in establishing that high-quality public preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds can more than pay for itself over the long term, as ...

RICHMOND — Bill Martin pushed open a wooden door and stepped into a cavernous space filled with faces. Blank eyes stared from shelves on every wall, carvings of hands and feet hanging between busts of ...