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Beth McGinn is one of 30 American Legion Auxiliary volunteers who had the honor of joining 98 young women attending the 68th American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation in Washington, D.C., July 19-26.

When 10 young Israelis and Palestinians came to Washington in June to talk, listen and learn from one another, the outbreak of war back home was never on the program.

A 30-year-old woman charged with fatally stabbing her mother in a Columbia Heights apartment told police that she may have been high on PCP during the attack, after which she tried to take her own life, according to an arrest affidavit filed in court Friday.

I moved to Carver Langston, a community in Northeast Washington just west of the Anacostia River, in 2011.

Welcome to the Hotlist, a monthly preview of things to taste, see and do in the weeks ahead.

Politics is so intertwined in day-to-day D.C. life that it pops up in places you might not expect -- like your pizza.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland, center, criticizes the efforts of Republicans for an election-year lawsuit against President Barack Obama that accuses him of exceeding his powers in enforcing his health care law on Wednesday during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Also pictured, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., left, ... (more)

John Tefft of Va., who is to be the new U.S. Ambassador to Russia, arrives to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 29, 2014.

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio defends the work of the GOP during a brief news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday as Congress prepares to leave for a five-week summer recess.

An advisory neighborhood commission member who represents Dupont Circle has been charged by D.C. police with attacking a homeless man early Monday and throwing his belongings into the street, according to an arrest warrant filed in court.

Hundreds of faith leaders and immigration activists participated in a protest in front of the White House on July 31, 2014.

A man shot by a D.C. police officer investigating a street robbery in Southeast Washington early Wednesday ran after being wounded and was found hiding in the back yard of a home - with a .45-caliber pistol and the victim's iPad, according to court papers filed in the case.

It wasn't long ago that we'd be complaining about the August doldrums, the period in which pretty much nothing happened in Washington, aside from a lot of sweating.

Lobbyist Bruce Bereano, left, chats inside a tent at the 38th annual J. Millard Tawes Crab and Clam Bake this month.

Washington, DC is commonly considered the second largest Ethiopian city in the world, second only to Addis Ababa, and it's estimated that about 250,000 Ethiopians call DC home.

Hundreds of undocumented migrants at a detention centre in Washington state have started a hunger strike, according to supporters, in the run-up to rallies and civil disobedience aimed at forcing through immigration reform.

They've done extraordinary things in service to their country. But on Wednesday, a soldier, sailor, airman, Marine and Coast Guardsman were recognized not just for their military exploits, but as 'everyday heroes' who routinely go the extra mile for their fellow service members and their communities.

If you attack the president repeatedly for law-breaking, executive overreach and deceiving the public and Congress, do you have an obligation to impeach him? This is the logical question Republicans are now trying to duck.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Md., joined by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., left, and Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, R-Mich., criticizes the efforts of Republicans to muscle legislation through the House authorizing an election-year lawsuit against President Barack Obama that accuses him of exceeding his powers in enforcing his health care law, ... (more)

According to WMATA, a teenager riding on the Green Line Wednesday afternoon is in the hospital after sustaining a puncture wound to the left side of the back.