Advocates are seizing the moment to call for change, urging Congress not to “get back in the city management business” before ...

With D.C.'s government governed by the Constitution and the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, any Trump executive order ...

Local leaders across the DC metro area are raising alarms about a stopgap measure in Congress that would trigger a $1 billion budget shortfall for the city.

Washington, D.C., which has often had a tenuous peace with the federal government when Republicans controlled Congress and ...

Michael Kaye, a Washington DC-based trade lawyer with Squire Patton Boggs, estimated this Trump term is 10 times more chaotic ...

Representative ... budget. Washington’s ability to govern itself has been limited for a long time. Under a law that established “home rule” in Washington more than 50 years ago, Congress ...

Washington D.C. used to belong to its two neighbors — Maryland and Virginia — until the land was ceded by the states in 1790 to form the nation’s capital. Then In 1847, the part of the city that was ...

Congress has the right to review and repeal Washington’s laws and budget and appoint its judges despite the district not having voting representation in the federal legislative body. Congress ...

Behind the scenes of one of the oldest zoos in America - Smithsonian National Zoo | From The Archives: 1997 ...

The District of Columbia could face a $1 billion budget shortfall after House Republicans introduced a continuing resolution ...

Massachusetts Representative Bill Keating was involved in a fiery exchange with a Republican lawmaker over how to address the first openly transgender member of Congress.