El nuevo requisito de trabajo presencial pretende, a decir del presidente Trump, asegurarse de que los burócratas cumplan con sus labores. Y si más de ellos renuncian, le parece un beneficio añadido.
President Trump has described his new in-office requirement as a way to ensure workers are doing their jobs. He sees potentially leading more employees to quit as an added benefit.
United Airlines said a plane landed safely at Reagan National Airport after a witness said he saw a kite reach the plane between its fuselage and engine.
The disclosure of sensitive attack plans on Signal led to a firestorm of criticism in Washington. We’ll discuss the fallout of the scandal and what it says about national security decision-making under President Trump.
The center’s opera company and orchestra are planning typical seasons. But one opera was withdrawn from the lineup by the artists who created it, who objected to the president’s takeover.
Two months after the D.C. plane crash killed 67, including six people affiliated with the Boston club, the members had to prepare for the world championships. Unfathomably, they had a blueprint.
The White House has moved to turn its Easter Egg Roll, a tradition that stretches back to Rutherford B. Hayes, into a chance to showcase brands.
As the center goes through changes after President Trump’s takeover, Gianandrea Noseda is extending his tenure at the National Symphony Orchestra, one of the center’s main groups.
President Trump and most members of his administration steered clear of the annual Gridiron Club dinner on Saturday, where politicians and the press usually toast and lightly roast one another.
The movement that prompted “Black Lives Matter” to be painted in bold yellow near the White House is in retreat. Its leaders are asking what comes next for social justice.
But President Trump wasn’t around to hear any of the barbs thrown at the annual D.C. event.
The Senate approved a separate bill that allows D.C. to continue operating under its current budget, which seemed on track to pass in the House. Senator Susan Collins said it had President Trump’s support.
With signs made from crayons and colored markers, children rallied on Capitol Hill with their parents on Thursday, protesting layoffs and spending limits.
Muchas cosas han cambiado desde que el expresidente Joseph R. Biden Jr. desairó al multimillonario en un acto en 2021.
The government tried to save Detroit. Now it’s letting Washington wither.
A lot has changed since former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. snubbed Elon Musk at an event in 2021.
District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair. The city raises most of its own money but cannot control how it is spent.
Republicans omitted a standard provision approving the District’s budget in a stopgap funding measure needed to avert a shutdown before the end of the week. The result would be a 16 percent cut.
Crews began removing the Black Lives Matter mural in Washington on Monday after a Republican lawmaker threatened to withhold millions in federal funds from the city unless the mural was removed and the plaza renamed.
The mural, which covers two city blocks, was painted in 2020. A jackhammer began chipping away at the bright yellow letters on Monday morning.
President Trump was in Florida at the time of the episode, during which a 27-year-old man held a gun and a confrontation ensued, the agency said.
Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump’s federal-funding and job cuts.
Democrats wrote to the governing body of the D.C. Bar that Ed Martin, President Trump’s nominee for one of the most important U.S. attorney’s offices, “abused” his power by threatening opponents.
Stand Up for Science aims to revive a movement that started in 2017, but with an all-new team and a more focused vision.
Mayor Muriel Bowser’s decision comes amid calls by the president and other Republicans for more federal control of the city.
The Capitol Police said the chief of staff to Speaker Mike Johnson was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after he backed his car into a police vehicle on Tuesday.
The Trump administration originally identified more than 440 federal properties that could be sold, which included the headquarters of the F.B.I. and Justice Department.
Spectators, heavy with grief, packed Capital One Arena for the skating benefit.
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.