Washington state’s U.S. senators have cosponsored legislation that would grant statehood to the District of Columbia.

As Trump focuses on expanding the U.S. map, residents of Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico have spent years advocating for ...

With a new D.C. statehood bill in Congress, the idea of the District becoming a state is back in the spotlight.

WASHINGTON — Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is leading the U.S. Senate fight for D.C. statehood even as his state competes ...

I hope the president-elect will consider a jurisdiction closer to home: the District of Columbia.

Much of Washington, D.C. had been part of Maryland when it was established as a federal district in 1801. "The DC statehood power grab is an attempt to add two Democrats to the U.S. Senate," Rep.

The casket bearing the remains of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is carried into Washington National Cathedral for his state funeral on Jan. 9, 2025, in Washington, DC. President Joe Biden ...

Muriel Bowser serves as Washington, DC’s seventh elected Mayor. Sworn in on January 2, 2015, she pledged to bring a fresh start to the District of Columbia, create pathways to the middle class ...

WASHINGTON — Maryland Sen ... but we fall short of this promise every day that the residents of the District of Columbia are denied that right in Congress and subjected to taxation without ...