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Today, the D.C. programs that are teaching students how to play go-go music - and the history they are preserving by playing it.
Marissa Lang
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View as a gridClimate change is coming for D.C.'s trees, and the city won't look the same
The Washington Post
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The Post examined data that shows how the decisions being made now about what trees to plant in place of dying ones will change the city's treescape.
After a robbery, a D.C. store sought help. The White House sent a film crew.
The Washington Post
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After her business was robbed by teenagers, Tumika Alston was quoted as telling Trump to "send the boys to Benning Road." Then her cellphone rang.
The house color that tells you when a neighborhood is gentrifying
The Washington Post
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A Washington Post color analysis of D.C. found shades of gray permeate neighborhoods where markers of gentrification have spiked.
This photo on the National Mall captivated the country decades ago. The real story behind it rema...
The Washington Post
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In 1974, a group of friends met the unthinkable with a lavish celebration. The real story behind a photo that captured the moment remained a mystery until now.
D.C. cleared scores of homeless from McPherson Square. Then kept evicting them.
The Washington Post
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Most of the people who were cleared from the square remain unhoused, the city said. And some have been evicted repeatedly from solo camp sites across D.C.
Chicago neighbors say Obama center is raising rents, forcing them out
The Washington Post
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The $500 million Obama Presidential Center has been pitched as a transformative boost for the South Side of Chicago. Will longtime residents be able to stay to enjoy it?
White people have flocked back to city centers - and transformed them
The Washington Post
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Urban cores have become Whiter in the last decade, bringing changes both sweeping and small.
One year after George Floyd's death sparked a movement, many protesters' lives are forever change...
The Washington Post
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The national outpouring of anger and grief that erupted after the police killing last year drew countless people to protest for the first time. For many, the experience was transformative.
Four hours of insurrection - The Washington Post
Post Reports
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Today, we reconstruct the riot inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 - hearing from the lawmakers, journalists and law enforcement officials who were there, and answering lingering questions about how things went so wrong.
Dozens of people on FBI terrorist watch list came to D.C. the day of Capitol riot
The Washington Post
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The revelation marks another example of the intelligence failures preceding last week's deadly assault, critics say.
D.C. is becoming a protest battleground. In a polarized nation, experts say that's unlikely to ch...
The Washington Post
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The nation's capital has largely avoided the most violent clashes. Until now.
Mexican feminists occupy federal building, create shelter, demand officials end violence against ...
The Washington Post
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Femicides are on pace this year for another record. Activists say the government is ignoring a crisis.
Day of the Dead celebrations to be muted when Mexicans need them more than ever
The Washington Post
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Cemeteries have been ordered closed on the night when families commune with the spirits of loved ones.
Federal officials stockpiled munitions, sought 'heat ray' device before clearing Lafayette Square...
The Washington Post
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A Defense Department official said the emails were a routine inventory check to determine what equipment was available.
Rwanda is pushing gender diversity in tech. Should Silicon Valley take notes?
San Francisco Chronicle
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KIGALI, Rwanda - Enough was enough. After years of watching the Miss Rwanda beauty pageant overtake the nation, a group of young women decided they were sick of it. With the pageant playing on a TV nearby, they looked around the room at each other. All of them were successful and smart.
In Calistoga, firefighters on front line snuff the spread of flames, embers
San Francisco Chronicle
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The winds had been promised for days. About 2 a.m. Saturday, they finally arrived in Calistoga, scattering dried leaves across Highway 29 - the road that led up to Mount St. Helena, the road that fire crews would do anything to stop the Tubbs Fire from reaching.
Without water, work or homes: Farm laborers displaced by drought
San Francisco Chronicle
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This is a story about what water gives and takes away — how California’s farmworkers are an ecological crisis away from losing their jobs and their homes, with no safety net to catch them when they fall.
What it's like aboard Salesforce's floating Dreamboat
San Francisco Chronicle
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The 11-level cruise ship is docked in San Francisco for five days, offering overflow accommodations to thousands who couldn't secure hotel rooms. The promise of a cruise ship, guests said, was hard to resist. As they walked up the ramp to board the vessel, several said, they had visions of lavish parties and lively entertainment filling the ship’s corridors. Their dreams, it turned out, were far from reality.
Sacramento miscalculated years of pension payments for city retirees
The Sacramento Bee
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The letters came without warning, notices from the city of Sacramento alerting retirees to an unsettling reality: For years, their pension checks had been wrong. And, the notices said, the city had the right to demand that money back.
Kevin Johnson's push for more staff reflects continued national ambitions
The Sacramento Bee
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Critics have complained that the mayor's demands are unnecessary and self-serving. But if the vote goes his way, the mayor says he will finally have the resources he needs to carry out initiatives both local and national in scale.
Lights, camera, police action
The Sacramento Bee
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In the seconds it took two Sacramento Regional Transit officers to pin two teenagers to the ground, spectators gathered. A local activist pulled out his phone and took pictures. The images, which have circulated online since the April 26 incident, show two black teenage boys pinned to the pavement. These images are the product of a community, and a nation, on high alert.
The little gay-marriage case in Utah that roared & made history
Salt Lake Tribune
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Years from now, when history recalls the first time a federal judge overturned a state ban on same-sex marriage, it will remember Utah. It will remember Kitchen v. Herbert.
Experts say criminal charges likely in John Swallow case
The Salt Lake Tribune
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Former Utah Attorney General John Swallow may have broken no fewer than eight laws in a widespread abuse of public trust, according to a Utah House Special Investigative Committee report released Wednesday. The state's former top cop likely will face criminal charges as a result.