The DC Council commemorates the WWI memorial in their building, honoring local government employees who died in the war.

The District of Columbia has a mixed bag of tax benefits and drawbacks. On one hand, its progressive income tax structure gets steep rather quickly, but on the other, retirees will not have to pay ...

In the first days of his second term, Trump changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, along with reversing the name of Alaska's Denali back to Mount McKinley.

Under threat from the Trump administration to lose federal funding, Columbia University agreed to implement a host of policy changes Friday, including overhauling its rules for protests and ...

About 400 Jewish professors and students have written a joint letter condemning the cancellation of some $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University, a move the Trump administration ...

Both the administration's approach to handling funding cut-offs under the Civil Rights Act and the specific demands being made of Columbia pose extraordinary threat to a pluralistic society and ...

The Trump administration's deadline to Columbia University to make changes is set for the end of the day Thursday. If Columbia doesn't make the changes requested by the Trump administration ...

James Boasberg, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia since 2023, drew Trump’s ire after he temporarily blocked the administration’s effort to carry out ...

The Trump administration’s recent attack on Columbia University puts all of that at risk, presenting the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s. Every American ...

In 2021, then-Attorney General for the District of Columbia Karl Racine announced the suit, relying on the Ku Klux Klan Act to bring the case. At the time, Racine said: The history will show ...

The Washington D.C. attorney general’s office has dropped its lawsuit against the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers regarding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The case was dropped because the city didn't ...

Scientists searching for links between diabetes and dementia. All these projects at Columbia University were paid for with federal research grants that were abruptly terminated following the Trump ...