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Members of the Florida National Guard pass by tourists on a sidewalk Friday April 17, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

With no end in sight to their deployment, National Guard troops roam Washington

April 20, 2026 at 8:34 a.m.

The cherry blossoms draw more than a million visitors to Washington’s Tidal Basin annually. This year was no different, except some strolling the area between the Lincoln Memorial and the...

Metropolitan Police Department diver Robert Varga poses for a portrait, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Responders recall a mission of recovery and grief a year after the midair collision near Washington DC

January 29, 2026 at 6:47 p.m.

Families and emergency responders are marking the one-year anniversary of the deadly plane collision over the Potomac River.

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy presides over the NTSB fact-finding hearing on the DCA midair collision accident, at the National Transportation and Safety Board boardroom in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Investigators say deadly midair collision near DC followed years of ignored warnings about traffic

January 27, 2026 at 3:55 p.m.

NTSB members were troubled Tuesday over years of ignored warnings about helicopter traffic dangers and other problems, long before last year’s midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an...

FILE – Federal law enforcement officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) conduct a traffic stop and detain people, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

4 months in, activists say President Donald Trump’s operation in DC increasingly targets immigrants

December 19, 2025 at 7:43 a.m.

One-third of all arrests made during a law enforcement operation in Washington, D.C., were immigration-related, according to official figures reviewed by the AP.

FILE – Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/John McDonnell, File)

Experts doubt the Pentagon can punish Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly over the ‘illegal orders’ video

November 29, 2025 at 1:45 p.m.

The Pentagon’s investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly over a video that urges American troops to defy “illegal orders” has raised a slew of questions, and some criticism, from legal experts.

An employee moves pallets of food at a warehouse of the Capital Area Food Bank, Nov. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Washington’s struggling economy takes another hit from the government shutdown

November 8, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.

With the government shutdown, firings of government workers and federal food aid cuts, D.C. food banks are bracing for people who will need help before the holidays.

Rep. Troy Carter, D-La., and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus speak outside the U.S. Capitol after arguments were heard on the Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Brown)

Supreme Court case could lead to loss of Black representation in Congress, but the scope is unknown

October 15, 2025 at 8:34 p.m.

Such a change seemed more plausible Wednesday after the court's conservative majority indicated a willingness to limit race-based districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

National Guard soldiers salute as President Donald Trump’s motorcade drives by, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Lawsuit against Trump’s Washington National Guard deployment exposes country’s deep partisan divide

October 8, 2025 at 9:08 a.m.

A partisan battle is playing out in a Washington courtroom that could decide the fate of President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement intervention in the nation’s capital.

Officers from Metropolitan Police Department, FBI, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), are seen monitoring a football game between Bell Multicultural and Archbishop Carroll, Friday, Sept., 12, 2025, at Cardozo High School in the Columbia Heights neighborhood in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump threatens to take over DC police again over immigration enforcement

September 15, 2025 at 4:09 p.m.

President Trump on Monday threatened to again federalize Washington, D.C.’s police force, in what he suggested could come in response to the city’s mayor’s stated refusal to cooperate with immigration...

FILE – President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Judge issues temporary injunction against Trump administration cancellation of humanities grants

July 26, 2025 at 6:14 p.m.

A district court judge in New York issued a preliminary injunction Friday night stopping the mass cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities grants to members of the Authors Guild...

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