which also features exhibits around the State Capitol. The effort highlights pioneers such as Richard Gault Leslie Paige, who was born into slavery in Norfolk, escaped on the Underground Railroad ...

An armed man arrested at the U.S. Capitol said he planned to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and burn down The ...

Several members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right extremist group, cannot enter Washington, DC, or the grounds of the US Capitol without first receiving court permission, a federal judge said ...

The capital’s business district emptied out when Covid hit. Reviving it will be hard, even if federal workers all come back ...

Organizers said commemorations will look to strike the balance between celebrating the nation’s founding ideals while ...

The Washington Post plans to light its DC headquarters in burgundy and gold and project the team’s “Raise Hail” slogan on the building’s façade if the Washington Commanders beat the Philadelphia ...

A firm that specializes in adaptive reuse has acquired an eight-story downtown D.C. office from telecommunications giant AT&T ...

An order barring commuted Jan. 6 defendants from entering Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Capitol could raise constitutional challenges, one legal expert says. In a filing Friday, Judge Amit P.

English told investigators that he traveled from Massachusetts to Washington, DC, intending to kill other Republican political figures — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and House Speaker Mike ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has rescinded an order that barred far-right Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and other co-defendants from traveling to D.C. U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ...

Washington, D.C., has seen a noticeable increase in temperatures compared to its five-year historical average, raising the question of whether cold days in the nation's capital are coming to an ...