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On America’s 250th birthday, while lightning sporadically lapped at the National Mall, I sat on a curb outside of the Willard Hotel. Around me was a scrum of Americans: street preachers and squalling ...

Popular downtown nightlife destination and restaurant The Park at 14th will pay $243,350 to workers and in government penalties following an investigation by DC’s Office of the Attorney General into ...

In the spring of 2006, Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig faced one of the thorniest decisions of his career: whom to put in charge of Washington’s new baseball team. The league had ...

On June 22, Mac Hightower got a frantic call from his mom. She said his brother, Ollie, had gone on a walk and hadn’t come home the night before. He wasn’t answering his phone either. Ollie, 29, was ...

The Washington Post plans to offer buyouts to employees to reduce its workforce by 240 people, interim CEO Patty Stonesifer told employees in a memo Tuesday. Calling it “difficult news,” Stonesifer ...

A year ago, The Passenger owner Tom Brown sold his Shaw bar to one of his regulars: Sanjay Mandhaiya, chef and co-owner of Pappe Indian restaurant on 14th Street and the Silk Road-inspired Karravaan ...

As part of this new series, “A Perfect Day,” we asked Sara Azani and Arash Shirazi—the couple behind Compass’s R Collective, and parents to eight-year-old twins—how an ideal day in their neighborhood ...

What’ll Sarah Huckabee Sanders do next? No idea. But here’s what the other living people who’ve been White House press secretary in the last 30 years are up to—ranked, by our entirely subjective ...

Judy Woodruff has been a fixture of American television sets since the early 1980s–first as a White House correspondent for NBC News, then as PBS News Hour’s chief Washington correspondent (later a ...

Rev. Mariann Budde, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, made headlines last year for her sermon cautioning a newly inaugurated President Donald Trump to impart mercy on queer people and ...