The nation’s capital made history on Jan. 8, 1867, by giving Black men the right to vote with the District of Columbia ...

Washington, D.C. has one of the highest murder rates in the developed world, and has seen a recent increase in crime, including a stabbing at Safeway and a knife-brandishing hooligan terrorizing ...

While she may be willing to negotiate secondary items with the Trump administration, there is one issue Bowser will not budge on: D.C. statehood.

Two Trump allies — including Attorney General Pam Bondi's brother — have launched bids for leadership roles with the D.C. Bar ...

The attempt to take over the District of Columbia is of a piece with the attacks on federal workers and the effort to create ...

President Donald Trump is warning Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to clean up homeless encampments in the city or else ...

Democrats wrote to the governing body of the D.C. Bar that Ed Martin, President Trump’s nominee for one of the most important ...

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s decision comes amid calls by the president and other Republicans for more federal control of the city.

Ed Martin, the controversial acting U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., is waiting for the Senate to confirm him for the ...

The federal probe follows a finding from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that D.C. has one of the highest rates of due ...

The school's dean argues the First Amendment "guarantees that the government cannot direct what Georgetown and its faculty ...