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In graphic terms, the president has focused on three areas he says make the city an embarrassment and nightmare: its ...

Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

The Capitol Store is back in the building after being limited to online sales the past two years during construction.

Trump inauguration moved indoors amid record-breaking cold as list of Democrats skipping event grows: Live updates - President-elect says he has ordered inauguration and speeches to take place in the ...

Some rioters charged or convicted in the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol are returning to Washington, D.C., for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to court filings in a dozen ...

"By establishing a rotating 32-hour workweek for District and DC ... are in Washington taking votes, attending committee hearings, and working long hours alongside staff out of their Capitol ...

at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (Photo by Ryan Berry/Washington State Standard) Bob Ferguson is officially the governor of Washington. Ferguson, a Democrat, took the oath of office ...

WASHINGTON—Something was nagging at Donald Trump when he sat down late last month with Mayor Muriel Bowser to discuss the city that he would soon call home. Graffiti. The incoming president was ...

Flags at the U.S. Capitol will be flown at full height on Inauguration Day — before the end of a 30-day mourning period in honor of former President Jimmy Carter — House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pardoning rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol four years ago can’t erase the truth about what happened that day, the top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., said ...

at the Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Washington. Carter died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. (Kent Nishimura/The New York Times via AP, Pool) ...