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The Needle: Free DC Marks One Year of Occupation, ICE Is Force-Feeding Hunger Strikers, More Than 300 Trump Org Accounts Were Closed for Money-Laundering C…

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D.C. Housing Authority Employees Allege Hostile Work Environment Under New CFO

That’s coming from Pettigrew himself, according to a recording of a meeting he held in May with employees in DCHA’s Office of Financial Management to address some recent grousing. That’s more than ...
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The Needle: Olympian Not Guilty of Vandalism, the Kennedy Center Stops Free Tours, Trump Spends $5 Million on Gold Leaf for Statues, and More

Federal prosecutors dismissed the Reflecting Pool vandalism case against Olympian David Hearn. Turns out it was a “botched ...
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The Needle: White House Spends Millions on Cadillacs, Americans Want the Iran War to End, RFK Jr. Has a New Cooking Show, and More

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Ekko Astral Frontwoman Jael Holzman Files Peace Order Petition Accusing Former Bandmate of Making Threats

D.C. punk band Ekko Astral announced their upcoming sophomore album, The Beltway Is Burning, on Wednesday, Feb. 11. By Friday, frontwoman Jael Holzman was standing in Montgomery County District Court ...
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Meet the Chef Who’s Been Quietly Repping D.C. on Reality TV Shows

You should know the name Martel Stone. The executive chef at The H and former executive sous chef at Kith/Kin has established a stellar reputation locally for his culinary expertise. Lately he’s made ...
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How D.C. Developers Use the Law to Jeopardize Rent-Controlled Housing and Create Pockets of Poverty

This story was supported with funds from Spotlight DC—Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism. It has been a little more than a year since Leilany Raya testified about the “unspeakable living ...
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Ticket to Paradise? The D.C. Council Unanimously Passes Law To Protect Consumers

barring the sale of speculative tickets (where someone sells a ticket they don’t actually own); requiring a reseller that sells, or offers to sell, 50 or more tickets a year to register annually with ...
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D.C. Cop Who Was Reinstated Following Trump’s Pardon Is Accused of a Pattern of Reckless Vehicle Pursuits

Michael Fenwick was watching television at the DC Jail in 2020 when he saw a familiar face on the news. The broadcast was covering the death of Karon Hylton-Brown after a pursuit by Metropolitan ...
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D.C. Property Management Company’s Pattern of Neglect Leads to Squalid, Unsafe Conditions and Displacement, Tenants Say

Tia Morsell lived with her three children in a shelter for three months after her apartment was deemed uninhabitable due to a sewage leak. Credit: Darrow Montgomery This story was supported with funds ...
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Multiple High-Ranking D.C. Police Officials Were Served With Notices of Termination Following an Investigation of Crime Stats

Several high-ranking Metropolitan Police Department officials received notices of termination this week, according to two sources familiar with the department’s internal investigation into crime ...
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PHOTOS: Third No Kings Protest in D.C. Focuses on Stephen Miller’s House at Fort McNair

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