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It's a rare moment that we can place a time stamp on a U.S. president's worst decision. But in the case of Joe Biden, we can thank politics-by-Twitter for the ability to write definitively that the dumbest move —both governmentally and politically — by our 46th POTUS is the unforced…

President Joe Biden’s support of a resolution to block new District of Columbia crime laws has split members of his own party amid rising concerns about crime in the nation’s capital and other cities

With a potential sale coming soon, does that mean good news for a stadium in Washington, D.C.?

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer has rejected a plea from the Democratic chairman of the Washington, D.C., Council to cancel a planned vote on a House-passed measure blocking the district’s new criminal code.

Senate Majority Leader Schumer is rejecting an attempt by D.C. officials to avoid a vote to block a new criminal code.

In rebuking the legislation, the president showed that he may not know what's in it.

The expected move next week in Congress to overturn District of Columbia laws dealing with criminal justice and voting has created a political tempest in the nation’s capital, with local activists decrying it as the latest effort to undermine the city’s ability to determine its own future

Biden is backing a Republican effort to block D.C. lawmakers from setting their own criminal justice laws

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said he’d sign Republican legislation barring the government in Washington, D.C., from making changes to its own criminal code, reversing his earlier position in a move that will surely anger statehood advocates and others in the heavily Democratic city.

Congress has final authority over the capital city.

WASHINGTON — The House passed resolutions Thursday to overturn District of Columbia bills that would allow immigrants to vote in local elections and reduce criminal penalties, the first time the chamber has voted to nix local measures in eight years.