Topic: Muriel Bowser

While Fourth of July celebrations will be less traditional this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the nation's capital still plans to conduct its annual fireworks display Saturday.

The House voted Friday in favor of a bill granting Washington, D.C., statehood, legislation that's not expected to gain traction in the Senate.

Allen Y. Lew, a former Washington, D.C., city administrator who built the capital's convention center and Nationals Park, died of COVID-19, his family said Tuesday. He was 69.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced on Tuesday that it is delaying the Kennedy Center Honors and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Offices in New York City can reopen at 50 percent capacity and restaurants in Washington, D.C., can resume indoor dining starting Monday under newly modified coronavirus lockdown rules in the two cities. 

Amid ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, demonstrators toppled several statues of Confederate figures and others deemed racist overnight.

Hundreds of former Justice Department employees on Wednesday called for a probe of Attorney General William Barr's involvement in a move by police to clear demonstrators from an area near the White House last week.

President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to withdraw from Washington, D.C. and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio lifted a curfew in the city amid ongoing nationwide protests.

A Pentagon adviser quit in protest over Defense Secretary Mike Esper's involvement in a photo with President Trump in front of a historic Washington, D.C., church, as well as tactics used to clear a path to walk there.

The Pentagon on Tuesday night moved about 1,600 active duty Army troops to the Washington, D.C. area "as a prudent planning measure" to potentially assist law enforcement in responding to protests in the area.

President Donald Trump on Monday declared he has mobilized all federal response and encouraged governors to establish an "overwhelming law enforcement presence" in response to protests over the killing of George Floyd.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison accepted the governor's request to lead the prosecution related to the police-involved death of George Floyd as protests seeking justice for his killing turned violent.

Local leaders throughout the country called for peace amid nationwide protests of the police-involved killing of George Floyd, while St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said people unkown to activists are sparking violence.

New York recorded fewer than 200 deaths from COVID-19 for a third consecutive day Wednesday as Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed more than 100 cases of a rare childhood illness linked to the disease are being tracked.

The World Health Organization on Monday urged nations to continue lockdowns and social distancing restrictions even though rates of infection have begun to level off in many parts of the world.