One key change would lower the age of a youth offender from 24 to 18 in the "DC Crimes Act." The legislation would also ...

The Advocate highlights social inequality through original stories and opinions, and content generated by fellow NNPA and ...

Since the 1970s, Lebanese immigrants in the DC area have used food—pillowy pita, tender grape leaves, smoky babaghanoush—to create a sense of home.

The Washington Wizards haven’t been anything short of lackluster in recent years. Not only did they finish at the bottom of ...

Senior Republican figures gathered at the Kennedy Center in Washington to pay tribute to conservative activist Charlie Kirk ...

President Donald Trump on Monday said he is sending National Guard and other federal law enforcement resources to Memphis to ...

Thursday’s weather radar featured what experts believe to be a mass of spotted lanternflies, an invasive species, moving ...

President Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations and other hardline immigration measures will result in roughly 320,000 ...

As part of the Anacostia Watershed Society’s Rice Rangers educational initiative, Ariel Trahan would teach elementary schoolers to smoosh wild rice seeds into mud balls and fling them into the ...

President Donald Trump took over the Washington, D.C., police force and deployed the National Guard under the pretense of ...

From the column: "With no voting representation in the House or Senate — and only three votes in the Electoral College — the city has few ways to advance its interests or protect itself from harmful ...

Trump’s authority to call up the local police force and D.C. National Guard on an emergency basis stems from the Home Rule Act of 1973. While home rule enabled Washington to elect its own mayor and ...