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3 police officers shot, suspect dead in Northeast DC shooting

WTOP News 1/12 11:30P Ivy Lyons

A suspect is dead after three police officers were injured in a shooting in Northeast D.C. Monday morning. The shooting happened on Florida Avenue near the NoMa-Gallaudet U Metro station, according to...

Rehearsal for 2025 Presidential Inauguration Parade happens Sunday. Here’s what drivers need to...

WTOP News 1/11 11:01P Matt Small

A rehearsal for the 2025 Presidential Inauguration Rehearsal Parade is happening in D.C. Sunday. It will impact traffic. Here s what you need to know. Listen to WTOP online...

DC lawsuit says federal government polluted Anacostia River for 150+ years

NBC DC (Local) 1/10 4:09A Michael Casey

The District of Columbia on Friday filed a lawsuit against the federal government over pollution in the Anacostia River, arguing it has inflicted “catastrophic harm” on the mostly poor and minority...

8 Events to Celebrate MLK Day in the DC Area

Washingtonian Things To Do 1/9 8:41A Briana Thomas

Photograph by Samuel Corum/Stringer/Getty Images. Celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr. at a number of uplifting commemorations and volunteer events throughout...

How to See the New Pandas at the National Zoo

Washingtonian Things To Do 1/9 3:41A Lydia Wei

Qing Bao at the National Zoo. Photograph by Roshan Patel/Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. January is a big month for historic events in DC, but the debut of two new...

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Double-Fist Darts and Cotton Candy at D.C.’s Playful New Flight Club

DC Eater 1/13 8:28A Tierney Plumb

Flight Club’s new D.C. location debuts on Friday, January 24. | Joy Asico-Smith / Asico Photo A first look inside Mt. Vernon Triangle’s anticipated after-work hot spot With some 500 million darts...

Penzeys Is Sending Tens of Thousands of Boxes of Free Spices to People in the DC Area

Washingtonian (Food) 1/13 8:06A Andrew Beaujon

The box of Resist! that appeared on this reporter's doorstep over the weekend. Photograph by Andrew Beaujon. If you opened a package from Penzeys Spices over the past few days and found a box with 27...

A Panda-Themed Pop-Up Bar Opens Across From the Zoo

Washingtonian (Food) 1/9 6:20A Lydia Wei

Two-year-old female giant panda Qing Bao in her habitat at Dujiangyan Base in Sichuan, China May 17. Photograph by Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. What’s...

Popular Noodle Pop-Up Will Become a Thai Restaurant in Chevy Chase DC

Washingtonian (Food) 1/9 6:06A Jessica Sidman

Fried chicken khao soi from Chef Kitima Boonmala's pop-up will be on the menu of Bird Song. Photograph by Kitima Boonmala. Chef Kitima Boonmala s family ran a small noodle shop in the central Thai...

Celebrity Chef Marcus Samuelsson Makes a Big D.C. Comeback

DC Eater 1/9 4:50A Tierney Plumb

Chef Marcus Samuelsson opens his first D.C. restaurant this spring. | Marcus Samuelsson Group The famed NY restaurateur brings NoMa a seafood-focused spot this spring NoMa’s 2-year-old Morrow Hotel...

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Abbie Stockard, girlfriend of Jazz center Walker Kessler, wins Miss America

NBC DC (Sports) 1/9 12:51A Will Reid | E! Online

Originally appeared on E! Online A new Miss America has been crowned. Alabama native Abbie Stockard — who is dating  Utah Jazz  center Walker Kessler — claimed the title at...

The Olympic gold medalist with high school homework to finish

NBC DC (Sports) 1/2 3:45A Greg Rosenstein | NBC News

He may be the youngest male track and field Olympic gold medalist ever, but Quincy Wilson won’t stop talking about his anatomy class. “I like studying the muscles and knowing the way my body works,”...

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