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D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2) at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on July 17. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington...
President Biden at the White House on Sept. 13. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share Comment...
D.C. State Superintendent of Education Christina Grant at a news conference in June 2022. (Craig Hudson for The Washington Post) ...
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser with D.C.'s acting police chief, Pamela A. Smith, in July. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min ...
D.C. police officers on Aug. 8 at the corner of Good Hope Road and 16th Street SE in D.C. (Minh Connors/The Washington Post) Listen 5...
D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) addresses the media beside community members at the corner of Good Hope Road and 16th Street SE on...
Former president Donald Trump speaks at a dinner hosted by the South Carolina Republican Party on Aug. 5 in Columbia, S.C. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty...
Protesters gather outside the E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse in D.C., where former president Donald Trump was arraigned on Thursday. (Will...
Acting D.C. police chief Pamela A. Smith, alongside D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, second from left, and D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto, left, speaks...
A D.C. police patrol car at the corner of Lebaum Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Southeast Washington on April 24 after eight people were...
Prisoners are led into the D.C. jail on March 5, 1986, after officials were able to move some inmates out in efforts to keep the facility's population...
Then-D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III, left, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Lindsey Appiah and D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb discuss...
A bullet hole in a window in the Woodland Terrace, housing project in D.C. on June 26. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post) ...
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) addresses reporters about the investigation into sexual harassment allegations against former deputy mayor John Falcicchio...
People gather for a motorcade to honor Black fathers on Father's Day in D.C. in June 2021. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) Listen 5...
Documents seized during the August 2022 FBI search of former president Donald Trump's estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (Justice Department/AP) ...
Police crime tape was visible at a day care near the scene where a 17-year-old Roosevelt High School student was fatally shot in Northwest D.C. on May...
Metropolitan Police Chief Robert J. Contee III walks to speak with reporters on April 11 in D.C. (Alex Brandon/AP) Listen 5 min ...
President Barack Obama, center, stands with Vernon Jordan, left, and Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick at the commencement ceremony for...
D.C. Mayor E. Muriel Bowser walks Georgia Avenue. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) Listen 3 min Comment on this story ...
D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III speaks with the press in D.C. on March 6. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) Listen 4 min ...
A voter casts his ballot in Georgia's 6th Congressional District special election at a polling site in Sandy Springs, Ga., on June 20, 2017. (David...
From left, Phil Mendelson (D), chairman of the D.C. Council; Charles Allen (D), council member; Glen Lee, chief financial officer for D.C.; and...
D.C. Council member Robert C. White Jr. at the Wilson Building in D.C. in May 2017. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min ...
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) testifies before the U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Capitol Hill on March 29. (Michael...
President Donald Trump walks from the Oval Office to board Marine One on July 27, 2020, in Washington. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) ...
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson. (Craig Hudson for The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Comment on this story Comment ...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, left, joined by Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (R-Ga.), center, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), right,...
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Demonstrators organized by the Congress of Racial Equality protest outside the White House in June 1963 after the death of Medgar Evers. (Warren K....
D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III speaks alongside D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser during a news conference in D.C., on Oct. 1, 2021. (Michael...
D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III briefs reporters after an officer shot a man Feb. 10 in Southeast D.C. (Salvador Rizzo) Listen ...
A U.S. Park Service police officer approaches a tent with a resident still inside of it at McPherson Square in D.C. on Feb. 15. (Reuters /Leah Millis)...
D.C. Council chairman Phil Mendelson, left, and Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Capitol Hill in September 2019. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) ...
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) on Jan. 2 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in D.C. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) ...
A tent encampment at McPherson Square in D.C. last month. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Listen Comment on this story ...
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) in the House chamber on Jan. 5. (Al Drago/Bloomberg News) Listen Comment on this story Comment ...
The scene where a juvenile in his early teens was shot Thursday in Northeast D.C. (Emily Davies/The Washington Post) Listen ...
On past occasions, I have used Martin Luther King Jr. Day, observed on Monday, as a moment to take stock of progress toward establishing the “reign...
There’s hardly a day in the week when I am not in the vicinity of the 6200 block of Georgia Avenue NW in D.C. The block is flanked by my barbershop...
I resolve to neither renew old New Year’s resolutions nor add any new ones. I do, however, fervently wish that 2023 will bring about a reckoning...
On Jan. 3, which begins the D.C. Council’s next two-year term of service, Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) will ask members to ratify his proposed...