May 3, 2021 DC police release bodycam footage of Terrance Parker fatal shooting The Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department released bodycam footage Sunday of a fatal police shooting involving Terrance Parker, a Black man who appeared to be holding a firearm at the time of the shooting.
May 2, 2021 DC mayor backtracks on rolling back indoor mask requirements for fully vaccinated adults D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser backtracked on new mask guidance for adults fully vaccinated against the coronavirus less than 24 hours after originally issuing it.
May 1, 2021 Manchin deals DC statehood -- and Dems -- another blow Democrats' quest to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state hit a big roadblock this week in the form of a fellow Democrat.
May 1, 2021 Biden celebrates and prepares to expand Amtrak despite decades of cost overruns and bad service President Biden headed Friday to Philadelphia to celebrate Amtrak’s 50-year anniversary and push for better funding of rail service that has a decades-long history of red ink.
April 27, 2021 DC police hit with apparent ransomware attack carried out by Russian-speaking cybercriminals The Washington, D.C., police department said Monday that its computer network was breached, and a Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate claimed to have stolen sensitive data, including on informants, that it threatened to share with local criminal gangs unless police paid an unspecified ransom.
April 27, 2021 Census data reveals what's behind US growth slump The first batch of once-every-decade data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows a United States that is growing less quickly and but still seeing its population shift to the South and the West.
April 25, 2021 DC cop cars totaled following drag race, according to internal email Two police cars in Washington, D.C. have been totaled after a drag race between officers with the Metropolitan Police Department on Thursday, according to an internal email obtained by Fox 5 DC.
April 25, 2021 Is DC statehood a chess piece in a broader Democratic political game? The House passed a bill last week to morph the District of Columbia into Washington, Douglass Commonwealth. Douglass, as in Frederick Douglass, the famed famed abolitionist who lived in the city. But Republicans view the D.C. statehood bill as a nefarious, Democratic, political gambit.
April 24, 2021 Rep. Mondaire Jones doubles down on his claims that opponents to DC statehood are 'racist' Rep. Mondaire Jones on Saturday doubled down on his claims that those who oppose D.C. statehood are indeed "racist" for suppressing voting rights for people of color.
April 23, 2021 Congressional baseball shooter letters dent ‘suicide by cop’ claim: ‘I never said life sucks,' only GOP policy Illinois left-wing activist James Hodgkinson, who tried to kill more than two dozen congressional Republicans, volunteers and police at a Virginia baseball field in 2017 before being gunned down by responding officers, was known to frequently make anti-Trump and anti-GOP posts on social media.
