Washington state’s U.S. senators have cosponsored legislation that would grant statehood to the District of Columbia.

A federal prosecutor is pushing back against a judge's order that barred a recently sprung-from-prison Oath Keepers founder and one of the architects of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach from going into Washington D.

Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

People flood the capitol to attend the inauguration of Donald J. Trump on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United

Members of Indiana's congressional delegation could view the inauguration inside the U.S. Capitol after it was moved due to intense cold.

On Sunday, the eve of his inauguration, Trump is scheduled to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery before heading to a rally at Capital One Arena in Washington. The rally will be followed by a private dinner.

Some D.C.-area universities directly educate the federal workforce and worry that it could make them a target of the Trump administration’s efforts to curb diversity programs.

An armed man arrested at the U.S. Capitol said he planned to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

A judge in Washington, D.C., has sided with activists who claimed the White House’s freezing of billions of dollars in already approved funding violated the law.

The move was the latest example of how the prosecutor in charge in Washington, Ed Martin, has sought in recent days to wind down the office’s sprawling investigation of the Capitol attack.

It is not for this court to divine why President Trump commuted Defendants’ sentences, or to assess whether it was sensible to do so,” Mehta wrote. “The court’s sole task is to determine the act’s effect.

A federal judge barred Edward Vallejo of Phoenix, along with seven other Oath Keepers, from Washington, the Capitol Building and Capitol Square.