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Ted Leonsis, right, owner of the Washington Wizards NBA basketball team and Washington Capitals NHL hockey team, speaks during a news conference with Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, left, and DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, center, at Capitol One Arena in Washington, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

NHL’s Capitals and NBA’s Wizards are staying in Washington after Virginia arena deal collapses

The NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals are staying in the District of Columbia. Owner Ted Leonsis and Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the $515 million deal at a news conference Wednesday.

Mobile tracking devices and stickers from the Metropolitan Police Department are seen on a table during an event where police officers distributed Apple AirTags and similar tracking devices to drivers in an attempt to curb a rise in crime in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

The District of Columbia is combating car thefts and carjackings with dashcams and AirTags

FILE - Then U.S. Park Police Chief Pamela Smith discusses preparations for the 2022 State of the Union Address during a news conference, Feb. 28, 2022, in Washington. Smith is now the new chief of the Metropolitan Police Department. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Violent crime is rising in the nation’s capital. DC seeks solutions as Congress keeps close watch

Washington Metropolitan Police Department Interim Chief of Police Ashan Benedict speaks during a news conference on the upcoming Fourth of July holiday in Washington, Friday, June 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

DC promises a ‘very, very robust’ police presence to maintain public safety over July 4 holiday

Cherry blossoms are visible along Hains Point in Washington, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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FILE - District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference Nov. 9, 2022, in Washington. Amid rising crime rates and spiraling public tensions over gun violence, Bowser and the legislative branches are locked in a public dispute over the future of crime prevention in the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

DC mayor and council at odds over new criminal code

The Washington, D.C., mayor and city council are locked in a public dispute over how to respond to rising crime rates and spiraling public tensions over gun violence in the nation’s capital.

FILE - District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, center, arrives for a news conference ahead of DC Pride events, June 10, 2022, in Washington. At right is Japer Bowles, director of the Mayor's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Affairs. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Muriel Bowser wins 3rd term as Washington, DC, mayor

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has secured a third term after a campaign focused on her leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and on her history as one of the faces of the ongoing quest for statehood.

Pentagon denies DC request for National Guard migrant help

The Pentagon has rejected a request from the District of Columbia seeking National Guard assistance for the thousands of migrants being bused to the city from two southern states.

FILE - Migrants hold Red Cross blankets after arriving at Union Station near the U.S. Capitol from Texas on buses, April 27, 2022, in Washington. The District of Columbia has requested National Guard assistance to help stem a "growing humanitarian crisis" prompted by thousands of migrants that have been sent to Washington by governors in Texas and Arizona. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

DC requests National Guard help with busloads of migrants

The District of Columbia has requested National Guard assistance to help stem a “growing humanitarian crisis” prompted by thousands of migrants that have been sent to Washington by a pair of southern states.

FILE - A group of Brazilian migrants make their way around a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border in Yuma, Ariz., seeking asylum in the U.S. after crossing over from Mexico, June 8, 2021. Two Republican border-state governors who are investing billions of dollars on immigration enforcement and hours at the podium blasting the Biden administration policies have found two unlikely allies: Democratic mayors Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., and Eric Adams of New York. The mayors' recent overtures for federal aid is a response to Texas and Arizona busing migrants away from the border, a months-old practice that has been long on political theater and short on practical impact. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

Mayors ask Biden to help with influx of asylum-seekers

Two Republican border-state governors who are investing billions of dollars on immigration enforcement have found indirect support from the Democratic mayors of Washington and New York.

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

U.S. Republican Senate candidate Katie Britt speaks to supporters after securing the nomination during a runoff against Congressman Mo Brooks on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Takeaways: Trump’s conditional loyalty, new warning for left

Donald Trump extended his losing record in Georgia on Tuesday after two Trump-backed U.S. House candidates lost in landslides.

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, center, arrives for a news conference ahead of DC Pride events, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Washington. At right is Japer Bowles, director of the Mayor's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Affairs. Bowser is seeking a third term in office. Bowser is facing a formidable fight for a third term. Her challengers in Tuesday's Democratic primary include two council members who have criticized her response to spiraling violent crime rates in the district. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Bowser wins Democratic primary for mayor in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser appears to be on her way to winning a third consecutive term leading the nation’s capital.

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, center, arrives for a news conference ahead of DC Pride events, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Washington. At right is Japer Bowles, director of the Mayor's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Affairs. Bowser is seeking a third term in office. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

DC mayor’s race reflects Democratic dilemma over policing

Mayor Muriel Bowser cruised to reelection in the nation’s capital four years ago without serious opposition.

People participate in the second March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control in front of the Washington Monument, Saturday, June 11, 2022, in Washington. The rally is a successor to the 2018 march organized by student protestors after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

‘Enough is enough': Thousands demand new gun safety laws

Thousands of people are rallying on the National Mall and across the rest of America in a renewed push for gun control measures after recent deadly mass shootings.

FILE - Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference March 15, 2022, in Washington. Bowser announced Thursday, April 7, that she tested positive for COVID-19, saying in a series of messages on Twitter that she was experiencing “mild cold-like” symptoms and would “work at home while following isolation protocols.” (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

DC mayor tests positive for COVID-19, reports mild symptoms

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser says she had tested positive for COVID-19. In a string of messages on Twitter, Bowser said Thursday that she was experiencing “mild cold-like” symptoms and would work at home while following isolation protocols.

These images taken from surveillance video and provided by the New York Police Department show a man suspected of shooting two homeless people on Saturday, March 12, 2022 in New York. A search is underway for the gunman who has been stalking and shooting homeless men sleeping on the streets of Washington, D.C., and New York City. Authorities say the gunman killed two people and wounded three more in less than two weeks. (New York Police Department via AP)

As gunman targets homeless, mayors urge all to seek shelter

The mayors of New York City and Washington D.C. are appealing to the public for help in an urgent search for a gunman who has been stalking homeless men asleep on their streets, killing at least two people and wounding three others in less than two weeks.

FILE - Syringes with doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, are shown next to vaccination cards March 13, 2021, in Seattle. The District of Columbia government is imposing a series of COVID-19 vaccine mandates as it intensifies virus protocols in response to spiraling infection numbers and the march of the omicron variant. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

DC to require vaccinations for clubs, bars and all students

The District of Columbia government is imposing a series of Covid-19 vaccine mandates in response to spiraling infection numbers and the march of the omicron variant.

FILE - District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser wears a face mask, as she speaks at a news conference on the coronavirus and the District's response, July 13, 2020, in Washington. The nation’s capital is reinstating its indoor mask mandate as the region and country grapple with a fresh surge in COVID-19 infections. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

D.C. brings back indoor mask mandate amid surging infections

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s capital is reinstating its indoor mask mandate as the region and country grapple with a fresh surge in COVID-19 infections.

FILE - Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks at a news conference March 15, 2021, in Washington. The District of Columbia will lift its indoor mask requirement starting next week, as local COVID infection cases continue to trend downward. Starting Monday, Nov. 22, masks will no longer be required in many indoor spaces. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

DC mayor and council publicly clash over mask relaxation

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mayor Muriel Bowser’s decision to ease mask requirements in the nation’s capital has sparked a public debate about timing, with the majority of the D.C.

FILE - Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks at a news conference March 15, 2021, in Washington. The District of Columbia will lift its indoor mask requirement starting next week, as local COVID infection cases continue to trend downward. Starting Monday, Nov. 22, masks will no longer be required in many indoor spaces. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

DC strikes deal to improve conditions at city’s main jail

The Washington, D.C., government has struck a deal with the U.S. Marshals Service to improve the situation at the city’s main jail after it became a source of criticism and the Justice Department announced that 400 federal prisoners would be transferred out because of substandard conditions.

Historic headstones of DC African Americans relocated

KING GEORGE, Va. (AP) — Dozens of headstones from a historic African American cemetery in the nation’s capital that were used as erosion control along the Virginia shoreline of the Potomac River are being relocated to a memorial garden in Maryland.

A member of the Capitol Police wears a face mask by a sign stating that face coverings are required, outside a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing, Thursday, July 29, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Washington, DC, is back to requiring masks be worn indoors

In the face of rising regional COVID-19 infection numbers, the nation’s capital is returning to mandatory indoor mask requirements, regardless of vaccination status.

President Joe Biden speaks with members of the press before boarding Air Force One, Friday, July 9, 2021, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Biden is spending the weekend at his home in Delaware. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden to talk crime with city, police leaders nationwide

President Joe Biden will host city leaders from around the country to talk about reducing crime. Joining the group Monday is New York’s likely next mayor, Democrat Eric Adams, currently the Brooklyn borough president.

FILE - In this March 22, 2021, file photo advocates for statehood for the District of Columbia rally near the Supreme Court and Capitol prior to a House of Representatives hearing on creating a fifty-first state, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FIle)

DC statehood facing long odds in the Senate

A bill that would make Washington, D.C., the 51st state has begun working its way through the Senate.

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2019, file photo, a photographer lines up her shot at the National Mall reflecting pool as the sun begins to rise behind the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol building in Washington. With COVID-19 numbers trending positive, officials in the nation’s capital have announced a pandemic reopening timeline that would see all indoor capacity limits eliminated by early June, but with mask requirements still in place. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

DC aims for full reopening, with masks, by June 11

Washington, D.C., is emerging from its pandemic quarantine. On Monday, officials in the nation’s capital announced a reopening timeline that would see all indoor capacity limits eliminated by early June, but with mask requirements still in place.

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2020, file photo with the Capitol in the background, two women toast in the air from afar while enjoying a warm fall afternoon as the sun begins to set on the National Mall in Washington. Officials in the nation's capital are questioning the results of the 2020 census, which show a large boost in population but not as high as they had expected. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Despite population increase, DC suspects a census undercount

Officials in the nation’s capital are questioning the results of the 2020 census, which show a large increase in the population of Washington, D.C., but not as high as had been expected.

FILE - In this March 15, 2021, file photo, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser takes a question during a coronavirus update at a news conference in Washington. Bowser announced April 26, that she is relaxing a number of COVID-19 restrictions after more than a year of virus lockdown. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Washington, DC, to loosen virus restrictions this weekend

Officials in the nation’s capital are relaxing a number of COVID-19 restrictions after more than a year of virus lockdown.

Washington D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, left, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., talk after the House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing, on D.C. statehood, Monday, March 22, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Caroline Brehman/Pool via CQ Roll Call)

DC’s long-simmering statehood push begins in Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington, D.C.'s bid for statehood finally got a congressional hearing Monday, but Mayor Muriel Bowser’s clashes with Republicans on the panel made clear that the issue is far from settled.

Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, writes messages on relief packages as they tour "Hook Hall Helps" a COVID-19 relief effort that organizes and distributes prepared meals and care kits to local hospitality workers whose jobs have been impacted by pandemic-related shutdowns and restrictions, during a visit to the organization in Washington, on Monday, March 8, 2021. (Erin Scott/Pool via AP)

Emhoff, VP Harris’ husband, goes from top lawyer to teacher

Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is getting settled in a new job teaching law at Georgetown University amid a high-pressure moment in U.S. history.

Danish Rozario, left, of Silver Spring, Md., wheels the baggage down Pennsylvania Avenue for a guest at the Trump Hotel in Washington, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.Between the still-raging pandemic and suddenly very real threat of violence from supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump, Jan. 20 promises to be one of the most unusual presidential inaugurations in American history. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will take the oath of office outside the Capitol. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

INAUGURATION EXPLAINER: Biden’s event will be very different

WASHINGTON (AP) — Between the still-raging pandemic and suddenly very real threat of violence, the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris next Wednesday promises to be one of the most unusual in American history.

Danish Rozario, left, of Silver Spring, Md., wheels baggage down Pennsylvania Avenue for a guest at the Trump Hotel in Washington, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump supporters among those seeking Jan. 20 protest permits

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of President Donald Trump are among a handful of groups that have applied for permits to hold protests during Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Members of the National Guard stand inside anti-scaling fencing that surrounds the Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, in Washington. Last week’s mob attack on the U.S. Capitol starkly highlighted a longstanding local security paradox: The District of Columbia government lacks authority over much of the area within its borders. (AP Photo/Alan Fram)

DC seeks security boost and eyes National Guard authority

WASHINGTON (AP) — Last week’s mob attack on the U.S. Capitol starkly highlighted a longstanding local security paradox: The District of Columbia government lacks authority over much of the area within its borders.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, file photo, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference in Washington. Bowser is seeking increased security around President-elect Joe Biden’s Jan. 20, 2021, inauguration in the wake of the mob insurrection at the Capitol. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

DC mayor pushes for increased security around inauguration

WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser is seeking increased security around President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration in the wake of the mob insurrection at the Capitol.

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows:

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