The District has seen an increase in strangulation related to domestic violence during the pandemic as programs like House of Ruth receive more calls for help from people than years before.
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Kahindo Musungira
Hopkins renovation of old Newseum building underway
Johns Hopkins University is renovating the former Newseum building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Hopkins' all D.C.-based schools are expected to move to Penn Quarter next fall while the Newseum continues to hold travel...
Ibrahim Aksoy
Expectations of large crowds at voting super centers don’t match election day reality
While the Nationals Park voting super center supported over 6,700 in-person voters since early voting started, only a couple hundred actually did so on Election Day. This morning at Nationals Park was windy and quite...
John T. Seward
Amid strain on city’s trash collection, volunteers clean streets themselves
During the pandemic, an influx of trash strained D.C.’s waste collection services, which paused street cleaning for over a year. A recent clean-up in Takoma highlighted the importance of neighborhood initiated clean-ups...
Rebekah Alvey
Extra police officers assigned to prevent violent crimes
115 police officers to be granted overtime due to shootings in Columbia Heights.
Petruce Jean-Charles
Listening to the voters
By Faith Boehm American University student Faith Boehm interviewed voters in Manchester and Concord, New Hampshire, before the state’s first-in-the-nation primary. Here’s what she found: Jerry Paulson, 60, has driven to...
Wash staff
The 126 million absentee ballots cast this year stretch U.S. Postal Service
USPS implements “extraordinary measures” to deliver ballots on time.
Maya Smith
College voters: To make or break the midterms
Millennial voters have been the subject of countless polls, think-pieces and campaign advertising. But will they turn out to vote? Local chapters of College Republicans and College Democrats are helping college students...
Foggy Bottom sidewalks rank as some of the city’s worst
With 333 obstructions, Foggy Bottom ranks in the top 25 percent of neighborhoods in the District with the most sidewalk obstructions.
Molly Feser
Leona Dunn