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Lawmakers hammered a handful of the roughly 500,000 nails that will hold the stage together.

The White House’s executive chef has retired after nearly three decades of serving meals and state dinners to five different presidents and their families.

Try to put on your best smize at Tyra Banks’ new Smize and Dream ice cream shop located in Woodley Park in D.C.

A shooting took place at Potomac High School in Oxon Hill, Maryland, late on Saturday morning, police said.

The Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., was under lockdown Wednesday morning after someone sent vials of blood to the building, three sources familiar with the situation told NBC News.

A man has died after crashing into a White House exterior barrier on Saturday evening, according to the Secret Service.

Kevin Hart rose from the open mics and comedy clubs of his native Philadelphia to become one of his country’s most recognizable performers. Now Hart has received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, accepting the award Sunday night at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Hart has honed a signature style that combines his diminutive height,...

An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force has died after setting himself on fire Sunday outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while shouting “free Palestine,” NBC News reports.

A man is critically injured after he was on fire in Northwest D.C. Sunday afternoon, authorities say.

A man who pleaded guilty to assaulting Democratic Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota in the elevator of her Washington apartment was sentenced to more than two years behind bars Thursday.

A man with a gun was arrested Tuesday across from Union Station on Capitol Hill, U.S. Capitol Police say.

The National Zoo’s three giant pandas are set to return to China in December with no public signs the 50-year-old exchange agreement struck by President Richard Nixon will continue.

A congressman was the victim of an armed carjacking in Navy Yard in Southeast D.C. on Monday night, two law enforcement sources told News4. 

A government shutdown could postpone fan-favorite Fat Bear Week, set to begin just days after the funding deadline for Congress.

The incident remains under investigation by the Washington D.C. police, the Secret Service and the State Department.

A video shared by Cuba’s foreign minister on X shows the moment a man lights and throws at least one Molotov cocktail at the Cuban Embassy in Washington on Sunday.

Concerns are growing as America inches closer to a government shutdown. News4’s Mark Segraves explains how D.C. would be affected if it happens.

NBC10’s Matt DeLucia reports on the medical condition that has forced Bruce Springsteen to cancel the remainder of his September concerts after postponing concerts in Philly last month. “The Boss” is dealing with peptic ulcer disease, he announced.

A man arrested on a homicide charge escaped from police custody at George Washington University Hospital Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.

A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier in Washington, D.C., allegedly stole checks out of the mail worth a total of almost $1.7 million, according to federal court documents.