Shaw News

An advocate for returning citizens in the District of Columbia urges all Americans to resist doing business with a global bank.

The largest organization of U.S. Catholic nuns on Friday rejected a Vatican assessment that it had fallen under the sway of radical feminism and needed to hand control of the group over to a trio of bishops.

The U.S. prosecutor most responsible for piercing the veil of Swiss bank secrecy has resigned, but tax experts said his exit was unlikely to slow Justice Department efforts to rein in American offshore tax evasion there.

The likes of Jeb Bush , William Frist, Tommy Thompson and Haley Barbour aren't typically heard from in the office of Thom Tillis, the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives.

A former general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disagrees with its recent guidance to not ask about convictions in employment applications.

With this being an election year, there are questions about whether the National Nuclear Security Administration will award the huge contract consolidating management of the Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons plants - and possibly the tritium operations at Savannah River - before the November elections.

A family is worried sick about a diabetic man who is imprisoned in Haiti on what they call bogus conspiracy charges.

A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 made a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery shop owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, US officials said.

WASHINGTON -- DC Mayor Vincent Gray and Chuck Brown's family announced memorial events and times, Thursday evening in an Email.

When abolitionist Julia Ward Howe wrote the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in November 1861, several months after the Civil War had erupted, little did she know that its heart-pounding lyrics were fated to become an emotional favorite with Union soldiers as they marched off to give battle.

Gov. Nikki Haley is joining forces with a fellow union basher, a polarizing governor in a fight for his political life.

Kenyan McDuffie, candidate for the DC Council Ward 5 , voted at Mt. Bethel Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May 15, 2012.

More than 160 World War II veterans are on the waiting list hoping to get sent to Washington D.C. to see the memorial built in their honor.

A A A A A A A A A A A Godwin Corp., Langley Park, Md., was awarded a $492,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract between 10 contractors.A The award will provide for the personal and non-personal services for medical specialties to include physician, nursing and ancillary services.A Work location will be determined with each task order, with an estimated ... (more)

After Tuesday night's dinner for the Flight 93 Memorial at the Newseum - in which Presidents Bill Clinton , George W. Bush and Speaker of the HouseA John Boehner all spoke - actress Glenn Close was spotted hanging out at the Willard's Round Robin bar with an eclectic group of Washingtonians.

The city is once again seeking bids for a vacant lot in Shaw once occupied by protesters demanding subsidized housing, this time DC leaders hope its prominent Rhode Island Avenue address will invite great architecture rather than protests.

A young, local artist has received congressional recognition for her work in Rep.

Goulston & Storrs is pleased to announce the continued expansion of its Washington, DC office.

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Neither the drumbeats of war nor the warnings about terrorism could stay Washington, D.C.-area jazz lovers from the 12th annual East Coast Jazz Festival Feb.