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Police said they have not made an arrest in the case involving the second 16-year-old killed in the city this year.

“You gotta laugh,” Maryland lawmaker Will Smith said, of being mistaken for the actor Will Smith, who struck comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars over a joke targeting the actor's wife.

An investigation into the package shut down streets around the White House on Monday morning.

The assault unseated Ukraine, congressional hearings and Ginni Thomas’s texts as the country's number one topic, even in Washington.

Police have announced a reward for help in locating the former boyfriend of Hannah Choi.

Temperatures are well below freezing across the area tonight. We start to climb out of the freezer tomorrow.

A Fairfax County jury found Megan Hargan guilty after prosecutors argued she staged the killings of her mother and sister to look like a murder-suicide.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s proposed budget allocates more than $250 million over six years to build an annex geared toward rehabilitation.

Maryland lawmakers, accused of "extreme" partisan gerrymandering, have fast-tracked a brand new congressional map to replace the one tossed by a judge last week. The new map reverses a move that would have made the state's lone Republican congressional district easier for Democrats to flip. The new map would only be submitted to the judge of the state fails to appeal last week's ruling.

The renamings at the university end a lengthy period of historical research and soul-searching over prominent figures from its past and the roles they played in racial oppression.