Peter Jamison The Washington Post

Virginia Shooting: After an unremarkable career spent tending the water and sewer systems beneath this city of 450,000 residents, DeWayne Craddock quit on Friday morning.

President Donald Trump has effectively taken charge of the nation's premier Fourth of July celebration in Washington, moving the gargantuan fireworks display from its usual spot on the Mall to be closer to the Potomac River and making tentative plans to address the nation from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, according to top administration offic...

President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon ostentatiously complimented District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, a Democrat who alleges in an ongoing lawsuit that Trump is violating anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution and just last week became the third law enforcement official to subpoena documents from the president's inaugural c...

Huge crowds gathered in Washington and other cities to protest the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, and the everyday gunfire that scars kids' lives.

For students across the country, the traditional eighth-grade trip to Washington is a chance to join the throngs on the Mall and perhaps spot some of the world's most powerful people on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.

Virginia Shooting: After an unremarkable career spent tending the water and sewer systems beneath this city of 450,000 residents, DeWayne Craddock quit on Friday morning.

President Donald Trump has effectively taken charge of the nation's premier Fourth of July celebration in Washington, moving the gargantuan fireworks display from its usual spot on the Mall to be closer to the Potomac River and making tentative plans to address the nation from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, according to top administration offic...

President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon ostentatiously complimented District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, a Democrat who alleges in an ongoing lawsuit that Trump is violating anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution and just last week became the third law enforcement official to subpoena documents from the president's inaugural c...

Huge crowds gathered in Washington and other cities to protest the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, and the everyday gunfire that scars kids' lives.

For students across the country, the traditional eighth-grade trip to Washington is a chance to join the throngs on the Mall and perhaps spot some of the world's most powerful people on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.