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Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., announced Wednesday the death of her sister to COVID-19.

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., has reintroduced legislation to remove a statue commemorating emancipation, arguing that 19th-century memorial doesn't do enough to honor slaves' contribution to their own freedom.

When you’re working as a reporter, sometimes you have to find the stories, and sometimes they come to you.

A  New York City GOP leader who calls himself "The Republican Messiah" on social media has been charged in connection to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection after FBI used news footage to identify him by a Knights of Columbus jacket worn in the storming of the building.

Firefighters placed a "challenging" two-alarm fire in Washington D.C. under control Wednesday after the blaze engulfed a three-story home under renovation, injured a firefighter, and caused damage to neighboring residences, officials said. 

The wife of notorious longtime drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán on Tuesday was ordered held without bond pending trial, one day after she was arrested at Dulles International Airport for alleged international drug trafficking.

Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said during a congressional hearing Tuesday that he regrets resigning in the days after the Jan. 6 insurrection, as he argued intelligence failures were to blame in allowing a "coordinated attack" that overwhelmed officers at the Capitol and saw rioters storm the building he was sworn to protect.

Police around the Washington, D.C., region are arresting suspects as young as 14 years old amid a crackdown on carjackings, which have been on the rise there, a report says. 

The protest was the culmination of nearly two decades of work to create a movement.

America’s seat of government is ringed by two enormous fences, festooned with concertina wire. Armed guards in camouflage roam the grounds. The current perimeter pushes out several blocks from the Capitol itself on the north, nearly to Union Station. Only those who work on Capitol Hill are allowed in.