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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 January 2026….

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 rights of transgender people started in his first term and picked up...

Federal officials say a University of Minnesota student was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement because of drunken driving, not student protests.

School officials around the country are figuring out how to pay their bills after the Department of Education announced it won’t pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in promised COVID-19 relief funds. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

The annual Trans Day of Visibility celebrates the transgender people and raises awareness on discrimination. This year’s celebration is very different as the rally lands on the heels of the Trump administration’s flurry of actions. News4’s Drew Wilder talked to supporters and members of the community. 

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. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on March 4 that the two-block-long, curb-to-curb letters painted in 2020 would be painted over. She acknowledged she made the decision in the face of pressure from…

The removal of D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Plaza is nearly complete. Here’s a look, plus info on what’s next.

President Donald Trump has pardoned a Virginia man whose sentence already was commuted for his convictions stemming from the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Public funding for agricultural research was already declining. Now Trump has frozen or paused support for a variety of research programs.

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. 

Top allies of Donald Trump downplayed the president saying he was “not joking” about possibly seeking a third term.

Moving at a rapid-fire clip, Donald Trump has been concentrating power in his hands, pushing the bounds of executive authority while effectively muzzling an array of voices that pose threats to his agenda, NBC News reported.

The prime minister of Greenland is pushing back against assertions by U.S. President Donald Trump that America will take control of the island territory.

President Donald Trump says a tree that’s nearly two centuries old will be removed from the White House grounds because it’s deteriorating.

The president plans to roll out a set of tariffs on Wednesday that he promises will free the United States from foreign goods.

A new bill introduced in Prince George’s County looks to assist federal workers who were furloughed or laid off. It comes after the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, slashed thousands of federal jobs. “If our federal workers are unable to pay their mortgages and fall back, I mean, it’s going to have...

A new bill in Prince George’s County aims to help federal workers who were furloughed or laid off. News4’s Dominique Moody breaks it down.

A graduate student at the University of Minnesota was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Thursday at an off-campus residence, the school said in a statement, NBC News reported.

School districts across the DMV are opening up their doors for federal workers in need of a career change. Amid so much uncertainty within the federal workforce, federal workers like Monique Mason are searching for new opportunities. “Divine Alignment,” she said. “Everything happens for a reason.” Mason is currently on administrative leave from her job at the U.S. Patent...

Crowds protesting billionaire Elon Musk’s purge of the U.S. government under President Donald Trump began amassing outside Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S. and in some cities in Europe on Saturday.