The Rev. Robert Jeffress arrives in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on Jan. 3. (Albin Lohr-Jones/Pool via Bloomberg News ...

In a massive show of force, federal law enforcement officers fired rubber bullets and chemical gas at peaceful protesters outside the White House on Monday evening as President Trump appeared in the ...

In 1985, when the District was still warehousing juvenile offenders in a pair of decrepit, vermin-infested detention centers — each rife with violence and lacking any meaningful health care or ...

When universities went online in response to the coronavirus pandemic, so did the tests their students took. But one of the people who logged on to take an exam in a pre-med chemistry class at a ...

A 15-year-old high school freshman was fatally stabbed during a fight that started when one student bumped another after classes were dismissed Wednesday at a Northeast Washington charter school, ...

When the Rev. Jaymes Robert Mooney takes his pulpit to preach, sometimes he pictures the graveyard — that is where his congregation was born. It was called Georgia Cemetery, named, he has been told, ...

From his home in Fairfax, Mohamed Soltan wants to spark “a little light in a very, very dark time,” he said. Shot, beaten and tortured over 643 days as a high-profile Egyptian political prisoner, ...

When Jamarria Hall strode into Osborn High in Detroit his freshman year, the signs of decay were everywhere: buckets in the hallways to catch leaking water, rotting ceiling tiles, vermin that ...

When it comes to mass shootings, President Obama and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan are in rare accord on a leading culprit. Both point fingers at mental illness. And in poll after poll, most Americans ...

World records? Olympic medals? History? Bah to all of it, apparently. What’s really important, in this throwback summer of 2016, isn’t the female athlete’s achievements. It’s who her husband is and ...

High concentrations of poverty, not racial segregation, entirely account for the racial achievement gap in U.S. schools, a new study finds. The research, released Monday, looked at the achievement gap ...

RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) said Tuesday that he has restored the voting rights of 69,000 people convicted of felonies under a policy change that speeds up the process, no longer ...