Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s non-voting delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives, has been the capital city’s advocate for more than…
For the second time, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, sending the…
One day after President Trump returned to the White House to continue treatment for COVID-19, whipping off his mask in a dramatic gesture on…
New demands to erase a segregationist’s name from the Chevy Chase Circle Fountain gained traction Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Washington, D.C., Del. Eleanor Holmes…
Washington Redskins majority owner Daniel M. Snyder has long been aware his team’s name and logo are considered disrespectful to Native Americans. But the…
The District of Columbia is an orphan. Nobody claims ownership. It’s not part of Maryland. It doesn’t belong to Virginia. The District is a…
A majority of Marylanders support D.C. statehood, according to a recent poll. Fifty-one percent of respondents in the new poll from The Washington Post…
Top lawmakers from Maryland pledged on Thursday to intensify efforts to block the U.S. Department of Agriculture from moving two agencies from Washington, D.C.,…
Is the District of Columbia inching closer to its ever-elusive goal of statehood? If so, two members of Congress from Maryland are playing a…
Washington, D.C.-area commuters and visitors to the nation’s capital will not ride in Chinese-made rail cars if the region’s congressional delegation gets its way….