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A Tibetan monk shouts slogans against China during a demonstration in front of the White House on Monday, as China's Xi Jinping began a week-long tour of the U.S. WASHINGTON - China's Vice President Xi Jinping on Monday started a week-long tour of the United States in a key test of relations with the man on course to lead the rising Asian power for ... (more)

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Gov. Chris Gregoire will sign a measure legalizing gay marriage in Washington state into law on Monday.

WASHINGTON -- DC police have arrested a Riverdale, Md. man in the shooting death of Jhonte Coleman outside Heritage India Restaurant.

House History Day is a free workshop on February 18 presented by the Humanities Council of Washington DC.

The small shop on Main Street in Newark is a big deal, and like area floral and candy shops, it... The deadline for submitting an application to the Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference program is Wednesday.

During my two trips to Seattle, Washington, I was often reminded by local government officials and business leaders that this Washington is not "the other Washington". By saying the other Washington, they meant Washington DC, home to the White House, Capitol Hill and numerous federal government buildings.

U Street's history will be the topic of discussion shared by Blair Ruble, author of Washington's U Street: A Biography and veteran jazz broadcaster Rusty Hassan at the Martin Luther King Jr.

Employee Derrick Harris organizes copies of the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington.

Police in Washington, D.C., were investigating Sunday after a man was found fatally shot near the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall.

The fight over insurance coverage of birth control, pitting the Catholic Church against the Obama administration, is not a battle over religious freedom as some like to say.

President Barack Obama's new budget proposal will ask Congress to devote millions for a new trade enforcement center and more U.S. inspectors in China as the administration takes aim at unfair trade practices abroad, a senior administration official said Saturday.

Lincoln Heights Elementary has celebrated learning this year with their "Bee a Speller!" program.

A Travel-Ticker exclusive, the 4-star Dupont Circle Hotel has weekend rates starting at $109 per night and midweek rates starting at $169. For a little more luxury, you can upgrade to a deluxe room for $20 more or a grand deluxe room for $50 more .

The White House is focusing on re-election themes such as jobs and public works projects in President Barack Obama's new budget blueprint while relying on familiar but never enacted tax increases on the wealthy and corporations to reduce future deficits after four years of trillion dollar-plus shortfalls.

Copies of the a appendix of President Barack Obama's fiscal 2013 federal budget are readied at the Government Printing Office in Washington, Thursday, Feb.

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A police chase that began in Prince George's County ended in NE Washington Friday after the car crashed into a tree and burst into flames.

So the Zoning Commission didn't actually rule on the Georgetown U. campus plan Thursday night A victory lap on iGaming: "By repealing, the Council, in the end, showed that the process can work." Arlingtonian: "We should return to the system that worked so well for nearly a century, with a three-member Board of Commissioners appointed to manage the ... (more)

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler says she knows why 10 percent of Americans approve of Congress, a rating that she jokingly says puts lawmakers on par with the popularity of the late Moammar Gadhafi.

WASHINGTON - A man was robbed at gunpoint by three men, one of whom was on a skateboard, as he walked home from the Benning Road Metro Station in Southeast Friday night.