U.S. Capitol Police will have additional personnel posted on Capitol grounds this Thursday because of a conspiracy theory about the significance of the date.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is no longer being updated. Go here to see the latest for Jan. 7, 2021. A U.S. Capitol Police officer died from injuries suffered during Wednesday’s riot in Washington, becoming the fifth related fatality. Angry supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a chaotic protest Wednesday aimed at thwarting a peaceful transfer...

A George Washington University professor who apologized in an essay last week for assuming “identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim” resigned, the university said.

Demonstrators protesting the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Deon Kay Wednesday got face-to-face with police outside the 7th District station Saturday night.

A 16-year-old boy charged with killing four people and committing several other violent crimes in D.C. was released from custody just weeks before the homicides because of concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, sources tell News4.  Michael Mason, of Southeast D.C., was arrested last week and charged in the killings of 31 year-old Terrance Griffin, 20-year-old Jaszel Henderson,...

As anti-racism demonstrators vandalize and topple monuments across the country, the president is threatening arrests and prison time. He said he will soon issue an executive order to protect monuments. President Donald Trump said in tweets Tuesday that anyone who vandalizes a monument on federal land can be arrested and face as much as 10 years in prison. He said…

Police arrested a Maryland man after a cyclist was caught on video Monday morning on a Maryland bike trail gripping a young woman’s arm as he ripped a racial justice flyer out of her hand. One of two other young people with her told News4’s Pat Collins the cyclist rammed him with his bike and pinned him to the ground. ...

For a fifth night, scores of people took to the streets of D.C. to call for change. Peaceful protests continued well past the curfew that went into effect at 7 p.m. The crowd started thinning out after 8 p.m., although a core group of several hundred remained at the fence at Lafayette Square for hours, chanting at the line...

Bellen Woodard was in third grade when she came home with a question. “My friends, they always called the peach crayon the skin-colored crayon,” she recalled. Why? She handed over the crayon but it made her feel “weird.” Her mom suggested that next time she hand over the brown crayon, “because our skin color’s brown.” Bellen had another idea....

A 17-year-old boy suspected of killing his mother and 6-year-old brother before shooting his father in Fauquier County, Virginia, Friday night was apprehended in Durham, North Carolina, on Saturday after he was caught trying to steal hair dye, clothes and a backpack from a Target store, authorities say. Levi Norwood was arrested after employees at a Target found him in…