From mutinies to modernity, the District of Columbia's unique constitutional status lets Congress – and now President Trump – exert rare control over the capital’s streets and future.

We can reconstruct the paths of the around 70% of DC streams that are gone today. Here, we’ll examine Slash Run and Brown’s ...

Trump's expansion of federal authority over Washington, D.C., is in many ways unprecedented, but calls to mind other times ...

Artist Gareth Fuller likes getting lost. To research his latest work—an intricate, hand-drawn map of DC—he spent three months ...

Washingtonians pay federal taxes, but they have no votes in Congress and their local government has no control over the D.C.

Six months after a deadly midair collision near Washington, D.C., investigators are holding three days of hearings to uncover the causes behind the crash.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. feels “he’s been taken for a ride” by wife Cheryl Hines — after he bought a home in Washington, DC, to please her and the actress now has “no plans” to leave ...

The 2026 Senate map is tough for Democrats, but Republicans have their own headaches Republicans are encountering some early headaches in ...

Days after a transformer caught fire at a Pepco substation in Northwest D.C., hundreds of customers in the Dupont Circle neighborhood are still experiencing power outages.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are encountering early headaches in Senate races viewed as pivotal to maintaining the party’s majority in next year’s midterm elections, with recruitment f… ...