High-end development has transformed some Black neighborhoods decades after they were scarred by unrest. And not by coincidence.
The loan program to help firms keep paying their workers had many beneficiaries. Among them was the capital’s permanent political class.
Monticello is shrine enough for a man who wrote that “all men are created equal” and yet never did much to make those words come true.
Federal employees are being ushered back to office buildings under inconsistent and conflicting reopening plans, against the wishes of leaders in the nation’s capital.
The shipping giant paid $205 million for the naming rights to FedEx Field under a sponsorship deal that began in 1999.
Nancy Baker Cahill uses augmented reality to explore the meaning of historical sites from the Rockaways in New York to Selma, Ala. Is public art embellishing our heritage, or defacing it?
He bypassed red tape and erected stadiums, schools, hospitals and convention centers in Washington and New York. Mr. Lew died of the novel coronavirus.
The Emancipation Memorial, intended to commemorate the end of slavery, has prompted a thorny debate over what the interaction between the two figures conveys.
It is the first time a chamber of Congress has approved establishing the nation’s capital as the 51st state. The measure is all but certain to die in the Republican-led Senate.
It is the first time a chamber of Congress has approved establishing the nation’s capital as the 51st state. The measure is all but certain to die in the Republican-led Senate.
Just steps from the White House in Lafayette Square, a group of protesters clashed with officers as they sought to clear out the park.
Every staff member and guest in contact with President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will still have their temperatures taken, be asked their symptom histories and be tested for the coronavirus.
The Air Force inspector general is examining whether secretive National Guard surveillance aircraft improperly monitored demonstrators in Washington and Minneapolis.
Democratic leaders announced a vote on June 26 on granting statehood to the District of Columbia, the first such action in more than 25 years.
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