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Government funding expires when the clock strikes 12:01 a.m. on December 21.

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., says she was “physically accosted” at the U.S. Capitol over Mace’s “fight to protect women.”

Celebrities, cultural icons and a few surprise guests have paid tribute to honorees at the annual Kennedy Center Honors celebration in Washington. This year’s recipients of the lifetime achievement award for artistic accomplishment are director Francis Ford Coppola, the Grateful Dead, jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, and singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt. The venerable Harlem theater The Apollo, which has launched generations of...

A trial is underway for a police officer charged with leaking confidential information to Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio after the extremist group’s members burned a stolen Black Lives Matter banner in the nation’s capital.

The Washington Spirit are heading to the National Women’s Soccer League Championship Game after defeating New York’s Gotham FC in a shootout.

An unidentified “adversary” hacked into the email system for the Library of Congress, accessing information sent via email between January and September 2024, the Library said.

People throughout the D.C. area and across the country reported receiving racist spam text messages the day after the election that told them to report to plantations to pick cotton.

A Michigan man who showed up to the visitors’ center of the U.S. Capitol on Election Day smelling like fuel and carrying a torch and a flare gun also brought an apparent manifesto about war in the Middle East, police say.

A man who smelled like fuel showed up to the visitor center of the U.S. Capitol with a torch and a flare gun on Election Day, prompting police to shut down the building to tours for the rest of the day, police say.

Some 20,000 people are expected to attend the rally on the Ellipse and the National Mall.

NASA is no stranger to spacefaring robots. But “Robonaut 2,” the first human-shaped robot to fly to the International Space Station, is something special. The robot is now on display at the Udvar-Hazy center in Virginia.

The piece is apparently named The Resolute Desk, according to a public gathering permit provided to NBC News by the National Park Service.

A new memorial has been placed on the National Mall a few blocks west of the Capitol that depicts what can only be described as a bronze poop emoji atop former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was disbarred in Washington, D.C., Thursday, months after he lost his law license in New York for pursuing false claims that then-President Donald Trump made about his 2020 presidential election loss.

The White House Historical Association introduces a new museum titled “The People’s House.”

Lawmakers hammered a handful of the roughly 500,000 nails that will hold the stage together.

The White House’s executive chef has retired after nearly three decades of serving meals and state dinners to five different presidents and their families.

Try to put on your best smize at Tyra Banks’ new Smize and Dream ice cream shop located in Woodley Park in D.C.

A shooting took place at Potomac High School in Oxon Hill, Maryland, late on Saturday morning, police said.