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Residents reacted as the removal process for Black Lives Matter Plaza comes to a close. News4’s Jessica Albert reports.

After the popular social media account Washingtonian Problems posted a disturbing clip over the weekend showing a small dog being violently kicked and then dragged along the sidewalk, the Humane Rescue Alliance is turning to the public for help and offering a reward. The video has garnered thousands of views and shares as social media users try to ...

School districts around the country are figuring out how to pay some bills after the Department of Education announced it won’t pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in promised COVID-19 relief funds. Congress approved the funding with a deadline of January 2025 to spend it, and the Biden administration allowed states to apply for an extension to...

The annual Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) was very different this year coming on the heels of the Trump administration’s flurry of actions restricting the rights of transgender people. TDOV annually celebrates transgender people and raises awareness on discrimination internationally. President Donald Trump’s actions to restrict the righ...

Passenger traffic at Reagan National Airport already dropped after January’s fatal midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter, and now there are new safety concerns after some recent close calls. Also on The News4 Rundown: The D.C. Council is set to approve a major change designed to keep some of its discussions secret...

Video shows dirt bike and ATV riders speed around D.C.’s World War II Memorial, which honors those who served in the war and those who died. At least three people can be seen whizzing around the circular memorial on the National Mall. The riders rev their engines as they pass the memorial’s granite columns, which represent U.S. states and...

Reagan Washington National Airport has seen passenger traffic drop significantly since Jan. 29’s deadly mid-air collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter, which killed 67 people.

The work to remove D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Plaza is nearly complete. News4 video shows solid paint where huge yellow letters spelled out “Black Lives Matter” three weeks earlier. “It’s really sad to see that the whole block has been removed because it shows there’s not so much of a difference between federal government and D.C. the ci...

March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility. NBC4 highlights local trans and non-binary voices in a deep dive with News4’s Jummy Olabanji.

A suspect is in custody after a woman discovered a stranger who was fatally hurt inside her home in Fauquier County, Virginia, authorities say. Just before 10 p.m. Thursday a woman returned to her home in Linden and found 29-year-old Brandon Probst with traumatic injuries, the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office said. The woman didn’t know...

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An 87-year-old woman was found killed inside a home in Potomac, Maryland, Sunday night after her grandson showed up to a police station and confessed to the crime, police say. Spencer Dillon Hamilton, 27, walked into the Rockville City Police station just after 8 p.m. and told officers he killed his grandmother, Pauline Yvonne Titus-Dillon, at her ...

Thousands of National Institutes of Health employees returned to offices for in-person work and were met with words of encouragement and songs of support. “We all benefit from the work the NIH does,” a supporter told News4’s Joseph Olmo. 

A fire broke out in an Upper Marlboro, Maryland home early Monday morning, according to the Prince George’s County fire department. News4’s Megan McGrath reports as firefighters work to put the fire out.