DC mayor treads carefully as Trump and Hill GOP threaten capital city’s budget, autonomy
As DC Council members roamed the halls of Congress on Monday, lobbying GOP lawmakers against a federal funding bill that ...
Trump puts pin in plan to sign DC takeover executive order — for now
With D.C.'s government governed by the Constitution and the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, any Trump executive order ...
D.C. Is Becoming Another Hollowed-Out Company Town
The fallout is spreading through the D.M.V. — D.C., Maryland and Virginia — a region where nearly a tenth of jobs are with ...
How D.C. first lost its right to self-govern, and the long road to home rule
The nation’s capital made history on Jan. 8, 1867, by giving Black men the right to vote with the District of Columbia ...
Should Maryland ‘retrocede’ DC?
Some have floated the idea that D.C. should become a city in Maryland. And while it may be something to think about, it will ...
DC begins removing 'Black Lives Matter' plaza from street near White House
Bowser, a Democrat, ordered the painting and renamed the intersection Black Lives Matter Plaza in June 2020. It came after ...
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How D.C. first lost its right to self-govern, and the long road to home rule
For a short time, not long after the conclusion of the Civil War, the nation’s capital ... Washington, D.C., had become a financial mess — that White men were being marginalized, that the city ...
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Restore America’s crime-plagued capital
Early on a Sunday morning, shots ring out on the 1300 block of Connecticut Avenue — steps away from Dupont Circle, a New York Sports Club, and the city ... capital. Samuel Zwickel is Washington ...
Science, Politics and Anxiety Mix at Rally Under Lincoln Memorial
Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump’s ...