The Constitution mandated that the new District of Columbia would be 100 square miles, and President George Washington chose the specific site at the confluence of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers ...

The Commanders announced a deal earlier this year to build a new home for the football team at the site the old RFK Stadium.

Twenty-five years ago, the city of the District of Columbia and the Nation’s Capital was in shambles. Congress had appointed a Controller to straighten out its finances and schools, which were ...

(The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 17) In The Federalist No. 43, James Madison explained the need for a "federal district," sub­ject to Congress's exclusive jurisdiction and sep ...

Statehood is now the clear preference of District of Columbiavoting-rights advocates, but the proposal has never, heretofore,excited much support in Congress and would, in any case, alsorequire a ...