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The real estate firm run by White House adviser Jared Kushner's family has pulled off its biggest deal in more than a...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said Friday it was "too early" to tell if progressive firebrand Rep. Alexandria...

Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) announced this week that no one on her staff would make less than $52,000 a...

It wasn't until 10th grade that Dr. Maria Robinson Snowden was pushed to embrace her math skills — But then she went on to...

Eunique Jones Gibson started a Black History Month campaign where she dressed her kids as inspiring leaders — And then it...

The town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Friday removed a Confederate road marker and a black history marker ahead...

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Friday condemned President Trump for declining to speak out...

One person is dead and another was airlifted to the hospital Saturday after two vehicles collided on U.S. Route 301 in...

The National Zoo and the People's Republic of China hosted a celebration on the first day of a new exhibit that teaches...

HBO host Bill Maher told House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Friday to "get in the bubble" and...

Police say there was a recent string of vehicle break-ins in the Chevy Chase area of D.C. The latest victims are two young...

NASA has renamed a facility in West Virginia to honor one of the pioneering black women featured in the book and film...

The company pledged to hire 25,000 people from around our area to work in Arlington, but an expert said the quality of the...

A project at a Washington, D.C, charter school was supposed to teach students about African American history, but instead...

Giving someone else the gift of life is one of the most selfless things a person can do. Inova Fairfax Hospital held a...

A former Washington Redskins cheerleader wanted to create a sisterhood for girls in her community, so she started a program...

Several thousand people in the Washington, D.C., area have sought admission to state drug treatment programs for marijuana...

With a fight beginning over the president's recent emergency declaration, the group felt it was important to show their...

Virginia Lt. Gov. Fairfax and the two women who have accused him of sexual assault were invited Friday to testify before a...

A new program for commuters can send you alerts, warning that your route is heavily congested, and enter you in a raffle if...

A 15-year-old boy accused of raping fellow members of his Maryland high school football team in the school's locker room...

With Virginia still reckoning with revelations last month that the state's governor wore blackface in college, Virginia's...

President Donald Trump says he is getting a "complete briefing" on a Coast Guard officer accused of stockpiling guns and...

Washington Nationals owner Mark Lerner said Friday that the team has filled their 2019 roster and slugger Bryce Harper...

Virginia House Republicans on Friday announced plans for a public hearing where Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and the two women...

Eleven alleged MS-13 gang members, including a leader, were indicted Thursday on charges that could carry the death penalty...

Bald eagle Liberty — whose longtime mate Justice flew the coop just a few days after she laid the first of two eggs this...

A federal magistrate on Friday ordered the government to disclose to him and to plaintiffs' attorneys a list of private...

Two U.S. cardinals attending the Vatican's sex abuse prevention summit said Friday that the downfall of their former...

A Bowie man hit a stroke of luck last week at Live! Casino & Hotel in Hanover, Maryland. Wendell Holmes turned a $5 wager...

Two U.S. cardinals attending the Vatican's sex abuse prevention summit say the downfall of their onetime colleague Theodore...

In a panel discussion organized by Alexandria, Karl Moritz, the city's director of planning and zoning, said before Amazon...

A man is dead after he was stabbed in Northeast on Friday morning. D.C. police said it happened just before 7:30 a.m. on...

A heroin dealer who delivered the drug to a man recovering in the hospital after an overdose may be spared jail time — at...

Justin, Justin, Justin. Justin Smollett is a talented millennial. He's quite handsome, has the status of a rising star and...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has signed legislation banning people under 21 from buying tobacco and nicotine products, a...

DMV's email Ticket Alert Service helps you stay on top of your ticket by sending you real-time notifications on any status...

The challenge: Act out a movie and win a Pat Collins Snow Stick. The winner: an Alexandria mom who recreated a scene from...

The arrest of Christopher Paul Hasson is a symptom of a shift in thinking inside the law enforcement community — that the...

The family of a teacher who was murdered while she was pregnant is renewing a proposal to change Maryland's fetal homicide...

Lawyers for Vanessa Tyson, who accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of raping her, on Thursday blasted the state...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A renewed push to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in Virginia has failed by a single vote. The House...

Even if The Washington Post never pays him a dime, Kentucky teenager Nicholas Sandmann may have already earned a bust in...

Congress is asking why a top Veterans Affairs official, who was once an outspoken critic of the department’s spending, is...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — After police used a new technique to arrest a man suspected of being the Golden State Killer, a...

A men's basketball game between Navy and Loyola (MD) in Baltimore has been postponed from Wednesday night to Thursday at 2...

Democrat Ibraheem S. Samirah handily beat Republican Gregg G. Nelson in a special election Tuesday for a Northern Virginia...

The Virginia House Democratic Caucus on Tuesday said rape allegations against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax should be...

After Mr. Stone posted the photo, which depicted the judge overseeing his criminal case, she called a new hearing to...

A federal judge on Tuesday paved the way for Twitter and GoDaddy to provide records to plaintiffs suing individuals...