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President Trump sent mixed signals Wednesday about enhanced background checks for gun purchasers, telling reporters he has...

ABC "Dancing with the Stars" host Tom Bergeron on Wednesday reacted to the announcement that former Trump White House Press...

A new national survey of the Democratic presidential primary finds a three-way race for the nomination, with former Vice...

A man was charged with the murder of his mother after she was found dead in the lobby of a Crystal City hotel Tuesday,...

Many changes are underway at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Nearly two dozen spaces and galleries will be...

The Trump administration is considering a policy that would allow states and cities to reject refugees who have been...

Under a new program being rolled out this year, a high school in California is reportedly locking up its students'...

President Trump's reelection campaign is set to launch an effort on Thursday to mobilize suburban women as the...

Washington's new XFL team will be called the D.C. Defenders. The XFL revealed the eight team names and logos Wednesday in a...

President Trump called on other countries to take up the fight against ISIS on Wednesday, the day after his secretary of...

President Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to postpone a state visit to Denmark, accusing the country's prime...

President Trump doubled down Wednesday on his assertion that Democratic voters are being "disloyal" to Jewish people and...

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the highest-ranking Jewish member of Congress, on Wednesday blasted...

Three high school students are in custody in connection with a fatal shooting outside a convenience store in Stafford...

We're looking at another hot day, and another chance of storms during the evening rush hour.Photo Credit: Shutterstock This...

Severe thunderstorms in the D.C. area prompted several storm and flood warnings Tuesday evening. This story uses...

D.C.'s mayor has enacted an emergency regulation to block a possible plan by the federal government to put a shelter for...

Jurors had to watch surveillance video of the moments a beloved clerk was killed at a Herndon convenience store. The...

A pedestrian was airlifted to a hospital after being hit by a Prince George's County officer on Indian Head Highway, the...

Organizers of the Maryland State Fair say security and safety are of the utmost concern, in the wake of recent mass...

The players from South Riding, Virginia are not the only ones having fun in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, at the Little...

A person is accused of several sexual abuse offenses that happened over a period of five hours in Southeast D.C. See...

Construction of a new fence near the north side of the White House will cause the adjacent part of Pennsylvania Avenue to...

PRINCESS ANNE, Md. (AP) — A former school nurse charged with multiple sexual offenses involving four Maryland high school...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — When Loudoun South team manager Alan Bowden called time with one out left in the top of the...

A Virginia teen volunteering at the Alexandria National Cemetery three years ago noticed a rundown plot nearby where...

George Mason University "inadvertently" warned students about an armed person on campus on Tuesday morning. There is no...

The $145 million Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial will feature 80-foot columns, four acres, 130 trees and engraved quotes from...

Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House will be closed until March 2020 due to fence construction, the National...

The National Park Service said Tuesday that the street will be closed from West Executive Avenue to East Executive Avenue...

Federal authorities have arrested a Maryland man accused of praising Adolf Hitler and President Trump, vowing a "genocide"...

To commemorate the South Riding hometown heroes' run, we stepped back in time and turned their photos into retro baseball...

After debuting at Arena Stage in 2015, “Dear Evan Hansen” dominated Broadway to win Best Musical in 2017. Now, it’s coming...

The rowhouse where a fire killed a man and critically injured a boy was not properly licensed, according to D.C.'s...

A man attacked and raped a woman in the parking lot outside an apartment building in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Friday,...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday announced that an annual assessment of city students' readiness for college and careers...

"We're moving into modern urban forestry," said arborist Jason Gillis. Included in the new approach to caring for trees on...

All public school students in grades 3 through 12 take the PARCC exams in D.C. and the latest results show that average...

The suspect in the death of Zoe Spears, a 23-year-old transgender woman shot to death last month in Prince George's County,...

Loudoun County public school students will soon have a new way to report safety concerns or even suspected crimes. The...

A massive search continues in Florida for two firefighters, one of them from Fairfax County, Virginia, who never returned...

Data released Monday show that D.C. students' scores on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers...

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a bill to remove a statue of a Confederate general near Judiciary Square. This...

Granted, I might be biased as a graduate of Howard University. But even objective observers have to agree that Howard is...

The good memories keep coming for Loudoun South, the team from South Riding, Virginia that is now 2-0 in the Little League...

BALTIMORE — Police say one of Baltimore's newest deputy police commissioners and his wife were robbed at gunpoint. The...

The Washington Monument will reopen to the public next month for the first time in more than three years, the U.S. National...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Advocates for gun safety are holding a march in Baltimore. Organizers say it will be followed by a rally...

DC police are on the hunt for a robber who recently broke into a Columbia Heights home and held a Catholic nun at gunpoint....

Maryland Rep. Anthony Brown, the second-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said Friday he now supports...