District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Chief John Donnelly told reporters in a news briefing Thursday morning that 27 bodies had been recovered from the plane and one from the helicopter.

Washington, DC police said on X that multiple agencies are conducting a search and rescue effort in the Potomac River after an aircraft crash.

Washington state’s U.S. senators have cosponsored legislation that would grant statehood to the District of Columbia.

Federal judges in the D.C. district court have remained essentially silent while signing off on the hundreds of now-dismissed cases that for years crowded their dockets.

The District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department said on its social media accounts that it was responding to an apparent airplane crash in the Potomac River.

A judge in Washington, D.C., sided with plaintiffs who claimed the White House’s freezing of billions of dollars in congressionally-approved funding violated the law.

More than 60 people were feared dead after an American Airlines regional passenger jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on

Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) is speaking out after Republicans blocked a resolution on Tuesday that would have condemned President Trump’s pardons for people convicted of assaulting

A mid-air collision between an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter occurred in Washington, D.C. Learn more about the crash and whether there are any survivors below.

Top Democrats on House and Senate appropriations committees wrote to OMB's acting head questioning the legality of the freeze.

WASHINGTON — For years, conservative activist Ed Martin has promoted Donald Trump’s false claims about a stolen 2020 election, railed against the prosecution of the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol and represented some of them in court.