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A family taking photos with the cherry blossoms on D.C.’s Tidal Basin spotted a famous figure in the background of their shots: former President Barack Obama. To their delight, the 44th president made a cameo in their family photos early Monday. “It was perfect,” mom Portia Moore said. Her daughter and son were standing under a cherry tree as......

The Winston Red Diamond is going on display at National Museum of Natural History, alongside 40 other gems from the Winston Fancy Color Diamond Collection. News4’s Megan McGrath reports.

The D.C. Council voted unanimously to expel Councilmember Trayon White, who was arrested last summer on a federal bribery charge and accused of accepting $35,000 cash.

Several roads in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Southeast D.C. will be closed Saturday for Petalpalooza, a National Cherry Blossom Festival event.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says sending a Maryland man with protected status to prison in El Salvador almost three weeks ago was an “administrative error.”

Employees across the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in a major overhaul.

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...