Marshall Heights in Ward 7, Washington D.C., is an urban heat island due to a lack of green space and trees, a form of ...

The House of Representatives went on recess without acting on a measure to avert a possible billion-dollar budget cut in ...

Bowser (D) and the team. The first new hospital in the District in a generation has begun the hard work of caring for a long-underserved community with complex medical needs. Cuts could include ...

District leaders plan to use a federal law to add 6 percent to D.C.’s budget this fiscal year should the House not approve a ...

"Excessive drinking" includes binge drinking, heavy drinking, drinking while pregnant, and underage drinking, according to the CDC.

Columbia University student Roy Lee says he’s been suspended after he built an AI program that helped him pass the brutal technical interviews for Meta, Facebook, Amazon, and TikTok. “I just ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Columbia University is lying big-time, and lying clumsily at that. Yet Armstrong turned around Tuesday to insist Columbia’s promises to ban masks and make other changes are “real.” Masked ...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) suggested there were plans to change the name of the nation's capital from the District of Columbia, to the "District of America." Saul Loeb/Getty Images Rep.

“We are a city, county, state all at once, and we provide direct services to the people of the District of Columbia, visitors to the District of Columbia, businesses in the District of ...