House Adopts Bill To Make D.C. 51st State
The Democratic-controlled House approved a bill Friday to make the District of Columbia the 51st state.
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The Democratic-controlled House approved a bill Friday to make the District of Columbia the 51st state.
President Donald Trump's Fourth of July gala in the nation's capital last year cost taxpayers more than $13 million, twice as much as previous celebrations, government watchdogs reported Thursday.
NASA is renaming its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first Black female engineer who helped inspire the story behind the book and film "Hidden Figures."
Protesters tried to pull down a statue of President Andrew Jackson near the White House Monday night before being dispersed by police.
An internet registrar is threatening to delist a website that is a leading promoter of white nationalist and anti-immigration views, a move that could make the site accessible only to diehard users willing to use a special browser to find it on the dark web.
The Washington Redskins will retire the jersey of Hall of Famer Bobby Mitchell. They will also rename the lower level of FedEx Field for him, replacing the section named for former owner George Preston Marshall.
Protesters toppled the only statue of a Confederate general in the nation's capital and set it on fire on Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in the United States.
The Washington Post editorial board is calling on Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to change his football club's name.
For the second time this week, the Supreme Court handed down a historic decision; young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, known as Dreamers, will not be force to leave anytime soon.
Democrats controlling the House have slated a vote next week to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, an issue that they say has become far more important in the aftermath of protests for racial justice in both Washington and across the nation.
A Washington D.C. man was in great shape, running marathons, lifting weights and playing basketball until March when he got COVID-19.
A University of Maryland, College Park student who was laid off from her restaurant job during the coronavirus pandemic is giving back.
Two sociology professors at the University of Maryland have been studying the recent protests and bias in policing and examining what all of it says about race in America right now.
Some transit options for Maryland commuters are returning as more people return to work and more businesses are allowed to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Tens of thousands of protesters streamed into the nation's capital and other major cities Saturday to protest the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis.
Much of the nation and the world watched as demonstrators in front of the White House were dispersed using tear gas, flash bombs and pepper spray Monday.
City workers and volunteers painted the words Black Lives Matter in enormous bright yellow letters on the street leading to the White House, a highly visible sign of the District of Columbia's embrace of a protest movement that has put it at odds with President Donald Trump.
Storms moved through Maryland Thursday night, bringing wind and periods of heavy rain throughout much of the region.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration Thursday, alleging officials violated the civil rights of protesters who were forcefully removed from a park near the White House by police using chemical agents before President Donald Trump walked to a nearby church to take a photo.
The National Guard of the District of Columbia is investigating the use of one of its helicopters to make a "show of force" against protesters near the White House, while President Donald Trump is encouraging authorities to get tougher to quell the unrest over George Floyd's death.
Officials in the nation's capital pushed back on an aggressive response by the federal government to demonstrations over the death of George Floyd.
The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington sharply criticized President Donald Trump for staging a visit to the historic St. John's Church across from the White House, where he held up a Bible after authorities had cleared the area of peaceful protesters.
Arlington County, Virginia, pulled its officers out of the District of Columbia Monday night after they played a supporting role in clearing protesters from a park outside the White House so the president could walk to a church for a photo opportunity.
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has ordered a citywide curfew beginning at 11 p.m. Sunday as more protests in the wake of the in-custody death of George Floyd are expected.
At Lafayette Park, across from the White House, three lines of barricades separated protesters from a line of police officers in riot gear.
