In March 2017, the leaders of Washington’s Fraternal Order of Police Lodge — an umbrella group for police unions in the capital — told their members about an exciting new idea. They were selling ...

Republican Del. Jason S. Miyares has upset a two-term Democratic incumbent to become Virginia’s next attorney general, making him the first Latino elected to the office in the history of the state.

A Fairfax County man was found guilty of first-degree murder Thursday for killing his next-door neighbor, a slaying that followed an escalating feud that began with mundane complaints over trash and ...

It was the personalized emails that got Jadyn Turner to consider Catholic University when she was choosing a college. She still has them in her phone, along with a photo of herself holding up the ...

Stephen B. Oates, a historian and writer whose biography of President Abraham Lincoln, “With Malice Toward None,” was once considered the finest one-volume study of the Civil War president before both ...

Loneliness among adolescents around the globe has skyrocketed since a decade ago — and it may be tied to smartphone use, a new study finds. In 36 out of 37 countries, feelings of loneliness among ...

The Loudoun County Public Schools board cut short the public comment section of a school board meeting Tuesday after a large crowd of unruly attendees refused to obey several orders to quiet down in a ...

The D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences (DFS), a once vaunted crime lab now mired in management woes, will cease its work on criminal investigations while a consultant conducts “a complete assessment ...

When Ketanji Brown Jackson was a student at Harvard, one of her classmates draped a Confederate battle flag outside his dorm window in the middle of Harvard Yard, the center of the university’s campus ...

G. Gordon Liddy, the undercover operative whose bungling of the Watergate break-in triggered one of the gravest constitutional crises in American history and led to the resignation of President ...

A former U.S. Navy intelligence officer and FBI official from Virginia has emerged as a “key figure” in the federal investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, as U.S. prosecutors alleged Thursday ...