Op-ed: D.C. has long been marginalized for the very thing that has come to define its culture and popularity: its Blackness.

When you think of Washington, DC, the city’s literary scene does not immediately spring to mind. “The federal government overshadows everything,” Kim Roberts, a local literary historian and poet, ...

D.C. health officials reported Tuesday that a person with a confirmed case of measles recently traveled around the District while contagious after coming from Minnesota. Cars without a driver ...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stood beside former Washington Nationals infielder Ryan Zimmerman outside Nationals Park on Sunday ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A rally in Burlington on Thursday was one of many around the country protesting the arrest and detention of a Columbia University student for his pro-Palestinian activism.

Samah Sisay, attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said it would outline the extraordinary ... Israeli military activity in Gaza and Columbia’s investment ties to Israel make ...

Columbia University has expelled, suspended or revoked degrees of students who occupied a campus hall during pro-Palestinian demonstrations in April 2024, the university said on Thursday. Students ...

New York’s Columbia University said it has handed down punishments to pro-Palestine student protesters who occupied a university building last year during a pro-Palestine demonstration.

Mahmoud Khalil at a demonstration in New York City on June 1, 2024. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) ...

Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York has adjourned court early for Shabbat. The case of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protester arrested by ICE officers at Columbia University ...

Khalil was a negotiator for the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia. Fourteen members of Congress have signed a letter demanding the release of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil ...

President Donald Trump warned Monday that the arrest and possible deportation of a Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University will be the first “of many to come” as his ...