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Goodies Frozen Custard & Treats, a Black-owned dessert truck in the D.C. area, created a loyal following by focusing on its signature flavor: vanilla custard. As cities begin to open back up from pandemic shutdowns, owner Brandon Byrd is hoping that loyalty follows his business to the new Goodies brick and mortar store.

Hundreds of protesters who massed in the nation’s capital to support President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud swarmed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, forcing police to evacuate parts of the complex as some demonstrators breached barricades on the building’s steps. The chaotic scene came after Trump spoke to a large crowd in front of the White House,...

Thousands of Trump supporters descended upon Washington, D.C., and began rioting on Wednesday, forcibly breaching the Capitol building as the House and Senate met to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The nation’s capitol is on high alert as thousands of pro-Trump supporters descend on D.C. to protest Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory. At least 13 Republican senators and dozens in the House plan to object. This, as both parties continue to fight over Georgia’s runoff elections, with the fate of the Senate in the balance.

Many participants paid tribute to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and said they were against the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ginsburg’s seat.

A shooting in Southeast D.C. early Sunday left a young father dead and 20 others injured, including an off-duty police officer, after multiple people opened gunfire on a large gathering, police say. Police Chief Peter Newsham said in a press conference that “hundreds” of people were gathered at 33rd Street and Dubois Place SE for an unsanctioned block party after…

A “living statue” titled “The Poser” was put up in D.C.’s Freedom Plaza on Friday in protest to President Donald Trump’s response to demonstrations over racial injustice. The display was created by the Trump Statue Initiative, which says it aims to allow artists to “share their point of view on our 45th President’s most notoriously self-serving, narcissistic and racist...

A historic vote is set for D.C. statehood Friday. For the first time ever, the House of Representatives is expected to pass a bill making “Washington Douglass Commonwealth” the 51st state.

After artists painted a street leading to the White House with “Black Lives Matter,” other cities have followed with their own street art.

NBC LX Storyteller Chase Cain was there when Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Browser had “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street that leads to the White House and later announced the area had been renamed “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”

A D.C. man opened his doors to dozens of protesters overnight Tuesday after he said officers physically attacked and pepper-sprayed a group of over 200 demonstrators. Protesters emerged from the three-story rowhome a few minutes after a citywide curfew expired at 6 a.m. and clapped for the man who housed them overnight, Rahul Dubey. Dubey said that he acted on…

News4’s Justin Finch talks to a Northwest D.C. resident who took in protesters after a confrontation with police.

An NBC Bay Area investigation has discovered tens of thousands of U.S. residents, adopted as infants from foreign countries, and raised in the United States, now face possible deportation – because they are technically not citizens.

A lawsuit accuses the Trump inaugural committee and two companies that control the Trump International Hotel of abusing nonprofit funds to benefit Trump’s family.

Businessman George Nader admitted transporting a 14-year-old boy from the Czech Republic to Washington, D.C., in 2000 to engage in sexual activity.

About $10,000 worth of Christmas presents and decorations intended for needy children were stolen Wednesday night.

D.C. police are investigating a stabbing in the 400 block of Michigan Avenue NE in the area of the National Shrine.