A new web page on the official White House site blames the Capitol Police and Democrats for the pro-Trump mob riot, absolving the president of responsibility and calling participants “innocent.”
After pressure from preservationists, the administration is expected to present the plans to a planning commission and make them public for the first time.
“This is just another example of absolute lawlessness on the part of this administration,” said Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
The self-described socialist leader tried to tie the Latin American fight against imperialism with the struggle of Black Americans against racism.
A magistrate judge said he was concerned that the defendant, Brian Cole Jr., had continued after Jan. 6, 2021, to purchase components similar to those prosecutors said he had used to make pipe bombs.
The Republican served for almost three decades in Congress. He said he was withdrawing from public life after the diagnosis.
On the fifth anniversary of the attack, which falls next Tuesday, Democrats plan to hold an informal hearing to review President Trump’s clemency for the rioters and G.O.P. attempts to sanitize the event.
President Trump insists there are no more murders in Washington, D.C. “I wish that was true,” said Jamia Vaden, whose sister was gunned down in November.
A Virginia man was charged with planting the bombs outside Democratic and Republican headquarters. Court documents show he believed that the 2020 election had been “tampered with.”
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine brings a revised 20-point peace proposal, as well as doubts about whether Russia is serious about pursuing peace.
Chuck Redd, a jazz musician, said he canceled his annual concert after President Trump’s name was affixed to the Washington building’s facade.
The case against Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan refugee accused of killing one Guard member and seriously injuring another, was transferred to D.C. District Court, where new firearms charges could bring capital punishment.
An 1850 rowhouse in Savannah, a 1970s house in Topanga, and a home in a converted stable in Washington.
The coalition of states seeks to stop a Trump administration effort to cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide such care.
Senator Richard Blumenthal is requesting information from an architect hired to oversee the ballroom design and people invited to a donor dinner with the president.
The Justice Department challenged laws aimed at popular rifles including the AR-15 in the nation’s capital.
Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, sued President Trump on Monday seeking to force the removal of his name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The institution has tried to work with the administration’s demands that it present a more uplifting view of American history.
The Kennedy Center installed President Trump’s name on the facade of the arts center, which had been designated as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy.
Workers hauled up large letters spelling out Mr. Trump’s full name to add to the white marble face of the building on Friday morning.
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The performing arts center is by law designated the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and it has been generally understood that the power to change the center’s name lies with Congress.
The committee cited interviews with police commanders in an effort to buttress President Trump’s federal takeover of law enforcement and the National Guard deployment in the capital city.
An investigation by The Times found the administration’s change in enforcement benefited the industry, including companies that had ties to the president.
Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, who suffered a head wound in the shooting near the White House last month, has moved from acute care to rehabilitation.
A five-year-old photo of agents kneeling at a D.C. protest after George Floyd’s killing led to the firing of about 16 agents.
The daughter of a politician, she didn’t expect to become one. But once she ran for office in 1987, there was no stopping her.
Reflections on social cohesion and law enforcement can help policymakers reduce crime even further.
The woman, 29, was struck by her own vehicle after the suspects began driving away, the police said.
Workers in Washington have returned to the office slowly, with a pervasive and pronounced effect on the local economy.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.
The country is on track for a record drop in homicides, and many other categories of crime are also in decline, according to the F.B.I.
The president has promised a veto, but Republicans scored another win in their campaign to put Congress on record against White House policies.
Many of the nation’s major cities face a daunting future.
In cities, especially, monuments have become not just an artistic genre unto themselves but evanescent, ever-evolving tributes to those we lost — and continue to lose.
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As remote work persists and business deals are sealed online, many upscale restaurants that catered to the nation’s downtown office crowd are canceling the meal.
President Biden also visited a vaccination site in Washington, D.C. ahead of his remarks.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was among the attendees reporting coronavirus infections on Wednesday.
Cases are not uncommon in Washington these days, and there is no certainty that those who tested positive were infected at the dinner.