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First lady Jill Biden says finally going mask-free feels like “we’re moving forward.”

The Washington, D.C., police department said Monday that its computer network was breached, and a Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate claimed to have stolen sensitive data, including on informants, that it threatened to share with local criminal gangs unless police paid an unspecified ransom.

The House passed the Washington, D.C. Admission Act on Thursday, approving a resolution which would admit the District of Columbia as a state and provide representation in Congress for D.C. residents.

A decades-long movement to reshape the American political map took a further step Thursday as the House of Representatives approved a bill to make the nation’s capital the 51st state.

Ramunda and Derrick Young first created Mahogany Books with the goal of making books by Black authors available online to everyone — no matter where you live. Now they have a brick and mortar store in Washington, D.C. — as well as a fan in former President Barack Obama. The Youngs joined LX News to talk about the importance of...

As the country awaits the transition of power – officials are preparing for all possibilities both locally and in the nation’s Capitol.

A New Mexico county official and founder of the group Cowboys for Trump who had vowed to return to Washington after last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol to place a flag on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk has been arrested Sunday by the FBI.

Eighty personnel from the Massachusetts National Guard are being deployed to Washington, D.C., for Joe Biden’s inauguration in the wake of the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.

It’s hard to go wrong with pizza, which is what a few members of Congress opted for as a way to show their appreciation for the National Guard stationed at the Capitol ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week.

Some D.C. residents, worried that violence will return to the District ahead of Inauguration Day, are asking neighbors to stop renting out Airbnb properties next week to prevent rioters from having a place to stay.

Lawmakers are vowing an investigation into how police handled Wednesday’s violent breach at the Capitol.

Hours before protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump addressed a crowd and encouraged the group to “walk down” to the building to “cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”

A judge has banned the leader of the Proud Boys from the nation’s capital after he was accused of vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church and found with high-capacity firearm magazines when he was arrested.

A statue of Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. Capitol on Monday. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., recorded the removal.

His motorcade thunders around Delaware, snarling traffic

Crowds of President Trump’s supporters convened to rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

A PhD student at the University of Illinois Chicago, who works at the University of Notre Dame, was charged with murder Saturday in the death of her ex-boyfriend in Washington, D.C., according to police and court documents.

A non-scalable fence was installed around the White House Tuesday to prevent demonstrators from getting too close.

While much of Washington is twisted in knots over the upcoming election, there’s another contingent already busy trying to figure out how to stage an inauguration for the next president during a pandemic.

A military whistleblower says federal officials sought some unusual crowd control devices — including one that’s been called a “heat ray” — to deal with protesters outside the White House on the June day that law enforcement forcibly cleared Lafayette Sqaure.