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 ...

The alleged former leader of a white-supremacist group accused of threatening journalists and activists was also involved in sharing child pornography, federal prosecutors alleged Friday. John Cameron ...

The Loudoun County Public Schools board cut short the public comment section of a school board meeting Tuesday after a large crowd of unruly attendees refused to obey several orders to quiet down in a ...

Jo Ann Hinckley, who became an advocate for mental health research and education after her son John Hinckley Jr. tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, died July 30 at an ...

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, ...

George S. McGovern, the three-term senator from South Dakota who carried the Democratic Party’s liberal banner in the Vietnam War era, launched a star-crossed bid for the presidency in 1972, and ...

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 ...

“Sesame Street” just celebrated its 50th anniversary, but surely the Muppets have been around longer than that. Jim Henson honed the Muppets’ act in the early 1950s with a five-minute show on WRC, ...

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 ...

Workers around the globe have been finding it harder to juggle the demands of work and the rest of life in the past five years, a new report shows, with many working longer hours, deciding to delay or ...