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Lights outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will permanently display the colors red, white and blue every night to commemorate the United States, the arts institute announced Tuesday. Usually, the lights are plain white, but the Kennedy Center sometimes changes them for special events and holidays. Rainbow lights shine during the week leading up to the…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadoran immigrant at the center of a legal battle that could reshape American immigration policy. Here’s what you need to know.

A federal judge said in an order Wednesday that he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt over the deportation flights that it sent to El Salvador, NBC News reports. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found “the Government’s actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to...

A federal judge said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt over deportation flights that it sent to El Salvador Follow along for live updates.

The judge overseeing the case of a man mistakenly sent to a Salvadoran prison has warned the Trump administration that contempt proceedings are possible.

After years of building up a career in public health, Beth Linas from Capitol Hill says she felt ready to tackle her next dream — becoming a mom. “Just excited to sort of have a nuclear family and see a little human grow and teach them about the world,” Linas said. Linas suffered back-to-back miscarriages before she and her husband…

A federal judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump administration to provide more documentation of the actions taken to facilitate the safe return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, telling an attorney for the federal government “The Supreme Court ruling could not be more clear, and so is mine.” The order to submit interrogatories and depositions within two weeks, along with daily,…

Beth Linas did two weeks of IVF injections before she was laid off as a federal contractor. News4’s Aimee Cho shares how a Jewish fertility nonprofit organization helped finance her remaining treatments.

In his first major speech since leaving the White House, former President Joe Biden decried DOGE’s cuts to federal agencies and spending, including social security. “In fewer than 100 days, this new administration has done so much damage and so much destruction– it’s kind of breathtaking it could happen that soon.”

D.C.’s mayor signed an order imposing immediate freezes on spending and hiring and putting restrictions on overtime as the District faces hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts this fiscal year per the federal spending bill Congress passed last month. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s order is the first step in cutting more than $400 million from the D.C. budget...

A judge agreed to drop a charge against a man the government has called the East Coast leader of MS-13. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder explains it’s part of the plan to fast-track the man’s deportation.

D.C.’s mayor signed an order imposing immediate freezes on spending and hiring and restricting overtime. News4’s Mark Segraves has details.

A federal judge has granted the Justice Department’s request to dismiss the criminal case against the alleged MS-13 gang East Coast leader whom prosecutors say they now intend to deport just weeks after top government officials celebrated his arrest outside of Washington. Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos’ lawyer in an usual request had urged the judge not to immediately dismiss the...

More than a month after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported to El Salvador, and days after the Supreme Court ordered his return to the U.S., his wife pleaded for his safe return home.

Public health experts say the anti-vaccine views fronted by RFK Jr. are wrong and undermine trust in science. But a recent three-day gathering shows his followers still believe in him.

Khalil, permanent U.S. resident who helped lead pro-Palestinian protests, was finished with postgraduate studies when he was arrested on campus and slated for deportation.

Joe Biden used his first public remarks since he left office in January to rebuke the Trump administration’s approach to Social Security.

If an immigrant who the government claims is a gang member can be deported to El Salvador without any due process rights, then why not a U.S. citizen?

A Prince George’s County councilmember offered fired federal workers affected by DOGE cuts the opportunity to have legal questions answered by experts. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

A crowd of hundreds gathered outside the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Southwest D.C. on Monday. Police shut down a section of the street for them and carefully guarded the building. “We are out here to demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil and all the other students who have been unlawfully detained,” Palestinian Youth Movement organizer...