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After suffering setbacks from California to New York, Maine to New Jersey, same-sex marriage supporters got a victory Tuesday with the City Council's vote to legalize gay marriage in the District of Columbia.

Actor and activist Danny Glover was at the Embassy of South Africa on Massachusetts Avenue Tuesday to join a daylong celebration of the 25th anniversary of a protest that led to the birth of the Free South Africa Movement.

Time and again over the past decades, the District has been held back from implementing measures that some in Congress don't like, from needle-exchange programs to medical marijuana to domestic partnerships and beyond.

Kudos to Joe Robert for excoriating Congressman Jose Serrano, Senator Dick Durbin and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton for selling out poor black kids in DC by doing the unions' bidding and killing the DC voucher program.A His letter is posted at ...

The entire Democratic Senate caucus is headed to the White House on Tuesday afternoon to talk health care with President Obama, just as the administration urges Majority Leader Harry Reid to cut a deal with Sen.

Councilman David Catania speaks to the media before introducing the same-sex marriage bill at a D.C. Council meeting in October.

The House on Thursday approved an omnibus spending package that combines six of the seven remaining appropriations bills for fiscal year 2010 and removes restrictions related to abortion funding and needle-exchange programs in Washington, D.C., the Washington Post reports.

The nation's capital could join 13 states where the use of medical marijuana is legal, thanks to a vote Thursday in Congress that may have even wider implications for residents of the District of Columbia.

Medical marijuana could be legalized in D.C. if a giant government funding bill passes Congress.

The city's chief librarian is anything but quiet these days. "Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!" she suddenly shouted Monday as she and D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty cut a ribbon to open the new Northwest One Neighborhood Library.

A controversial move by the U.S. House of Representatives has given the green light on some hot-button issues, including lifting a ban on the District's medical marijuana law.

The House rejected efforts to revive limits in Washington on financing of needle-exchange programs like Prevention Works.

The following is a letter written by Claire Bettag. She asks that it be distributed widely: We are pleased that Jan Alpert, President of NGS, will be testifying at the previously announced hearing next week on Capitol Hill related to the National Archives.

The leaders of D.C.'s school choice movement, Kevin P. Chavous and Virginia Walden Ford , today issued the following statement: "House and Senate Appropriators this week ignored the wishes of D.C.'s mayor, D.C.'s public schools chancellor, a majority of D.C.'s city council, and more than 70 percent of D.C. residents and have mandated the slow death ...

Guns, needles and drugs - oh my! All sides used the massive catchall spending bill now waiting for final approval in Congress to take care of long-standing business - with Amtrak passengers getting one giant step closer to being able to travel with firearms in their checked luggage just like airplane passengers - and with the District of Columbia ...

Same-sex marriage seemed on a clear road to passage in the District, but a long-time neighborhood activist is taking the fight against gay unions to Congress.

24, 2009 in Washington DC. Samantha Appleton/Getty Images The White House gate-crashers' plan to invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and refuse to testify if they are subpoenaed to appear on Capitol Hill about the security breach.

The Secret Service says it plans to change some of its screening policies after a Virginia couple was able to crash a White House dinner.

Last week's congressional hearing over the security mistakes that allowed a publicity hungry Virginia couple get into a White House dinner put a spotlight on persistent fears among African-Americans for President Barack Obama's safety.

The head of the Secret Service says the security breach at last week's White House state dinner was an aberration.