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Councilmember Brooke Pinto conceded the race to fill the seat of the District’s long-serving congressional delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton. Councilmember Robert White’s campaign told News4 Pinto called to concede shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday. NBC hasn’t called the race, as ranked choice voting tabulations could take days. Five people ran to replace Norton, who is finishing her 18th term representing...

Virginia Democrats are celebrating a new deal to legalize a recreational marijuana marketplace in the commonwealth, but it comes as Virginia is quickly approaching the possibility of its first ever state government shutdown. For months, Democrats in the majority have been at odds over the state budget, and if a deal isn’t struck by the end of the month, teachers,...

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A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House, killing one of them, has pleaded not guilty to charges in a new indictment. Those charges would him eligible for a possible death sentence if he is convicted. Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal was arraigned Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and 16 other counts in the new indictment. Lakanwal originally pleaded not guilty in January to charges in the November 2025 shooting that killed Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and critically wounded Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe. A grand jury in Washington originally charged Lakanwal in a nine-count indictment.

Voters in the nation's capital went to the polls Tuesday to select party candidates for mayor and the District's delegate to Congress.

President Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies. The Department of Justice will take on enforcement of civil rights in education, while the Department of Health and Human Services will oversee special education. Trump’s Republican administration made the announcement on Tuesday. The Department of Justice also will take over work protecting student privacy and will provide some training and advisory help to schools. Trump campaigned on shutting down the Education Department and moving education “back to the states,” but only Congress can close the department.

Sean Penn will direct a movie about a police officer who was at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021, Warner Bros. said Tuesday.

The brown spots on the west lawn of the National Mall that marked out "8647" are once again green. The patches where the numbers were are now a more vivid green than the grass around them.

A former D.C. psychotherapist who specialized in working with children was sentenced to 10 years in prison for possessing child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.

An out-of-control bus with passengers on board sped through Bethesda, leaving an almost half-mile trail of damage and near misses on Wisconsin Avenue before the driver was able to bring it to a stop.

Here's what to know about early voting, voter registration, polling places, mail-in ballots and Primary Day in Maryland.

A man shot and killed a woman in Northwest D.C. and then fled onto a Metrobus, where he was killed by police after he pointed a gun at officers early Tuesday, authorities say.

June 16 is Primary Day in what's sure to be one of the District's most consequential local elections in recent history.

A Germantown woman told the News4 I-Team she received 87 toll violations after a temporary paper tag once registered to her appeared on another vehicle.

For the first time Monday, Virginia State Sen. Louise Lucas answered questions about the FBI raid on her private business and her district office. She said it’s awfully coincidental that it came on the heels of her push to redistrict Virginia in favor of Democrats. “No arrests, no charges made, nothing,” she told News4. Lucas is arguably the most powerful...

UFC CEO Dana White said he can't afford another fight night at the White House and isn't planning to return.

A man has life-threatening injuries after another man hit his car, took off and then stabbed him in Alexandria this weekend, authorities say.

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Elevated levels were found in a small stream and a stormwater pond near Great Seneca Highway and Key West Avenue, the county said.

A group of people said they were headed to the Virginia shoreline and lost sight of the man swimming with them.