DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

Andy Ogles of Tennessee and U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, both Republicans, introduced legislation to overturn the District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973. Ogles said in February that D.C. Mayor ...

A new report ranked the country’s longevity hotspots based on factors such as gender, family, volunteering, religious ...

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A deal last year to transfer an F-16 Fighting Falcon squadron from the District of Columbia Air National ... peace through strength for the United States." A military official familiar with ...

NEWARK, NJ (CNN) — A federal district court declined ... foreign policy consequences for the United States.” The administration has also accused the Columbia University graduate of being ...

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 ...

The measles count in the U.S. has surged to over 430 cases across 18 states and Washington ... Most recently, District of Columbia health officials confirmed a case of measles in an Amtrak ...

Columbia’s interim president was reportedly pushed by the Trump administration to publicly double down on her commitment to enforcing a mask ban and other policy changes following reports she ...

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 ...

“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 ...