The 88-year-old nonvoting delegate for Washington, D.C., who has retreated from her duties amid declining health, made it official that she would retire at the end of her term.
Amid cancellations and turmoil, the National Symphony Orchestra is planning to stay. “I cannot make everybody happy,” its conductor said.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it has reduced traffic in and out of the airport and designed safer routes. Crash victims’ families want more.
It was not clear whether Washington’s 88-year-old veteran delegate, who has been in declining health but has insisted she would seek re-election, was aware of the filing.
About 40 million gallons of untreated sewage a day has spilled into the river since a pipeline ruptured in Montgomery County, Md., on Monday, according to a utility company.
In a year, the president has altered 10 spaces in the White House.
The soprano, who previously resigned as an artistic adviser, was scheduled to sing with the National Symphony Orchestra in May.
“This is not the direction that we were hoping for,” the president of a leading anti-abortion group said ahead of the March for Life.
The agency said that expanding the restrictions and making them permanent were urgent steps for avoiding another crash.
At two congressional hearings, lawmakers slammed executives of major companies, saying they were failing to rein in the cost of medical care for consumers.
An oversize card reproduces a suggestive birthday greeting from 2003, released as part of a congressional inquiry. President Trump has denied that he signed it.
A federal judge has allowed the ballroom project to proceed after the Trump administration pledged to undergo a review by the Commission of Fine Arts.
Spring performances of “Treemonisha” and “The Crucible” will be held at George Washington University.
A visit to Greenland reveals a swirl of feelings as people nervously await talks with the Trump administration about the island’s future.
A Maryland man used his government job to order new cellphones worth over $150,000 and then sell them to a pawnshop, federal prosecutors said.
The Justice Department’s probe into whether Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, lied about renovations to the central bank’s headquarters has raised alarms.
The investigation, which centers on renovations of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters in Washington, signals an escalation in the long-running clash between President Trump and the chair.
The move embodied the contradictions and fast-changing nature of the two countries’ relationship.
The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned about declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term.
Federal law mandated that the memorial tablet be installed by March 2023, but Congress blew past that deadline.
Besides changes to the White House, President Trump also said he planned to tear up the brick walkways in Lafayette Park and replace them with granite.
The institution, long regarded as independent, is facing a White House deadline to hand over records about its content and will see turnover that could reshape its governing board.
From neighborhood diners, to Michelin-starred restaurants loyalty has its privileges.
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.
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.
We visited 10 cities across the country to see how the pandemic and its aftershocks have reshaped the American downtown.
Plus Russia prepares for show trials and Taiwan does not rise to China’s provocations.
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.