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A run of bad news has revived some of the most pernicious stereotypes about Oakland. But its image as crime-ridden and dysfunctional obscures the whole story.

“They were good ones, people that you could trust, people that you could count on,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said at a news conference.

Holding D.C. accountable for soaring homicide rate.

The Washington Post has launched an online tracker that will be updated each time a mass killing with a gun occurs.

The shootings in Lewiston made 2023 one of the deadliest years for mass killings with a gun since 2006, according to data analyzed by The Washington Post.

The number of carjackings in the D.C. region soared during the pandemic, baffling authorities and rattling communities.

The gunman who killed 11 people in Monterey Park and the man suspected of killing seven in Half Moon Bay are among the oldest suspected mass shooters in U.S. history.

The “Great Resignation” and the gig economy are helping fuel a rise in new businesses in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, data and experts say.

As businesses struggled and closed in downtown D.C., more popped up in the cheaper, larger spaces of the suburbs.

Luria pledged not to accept corporate PAC money during her first campaign for Congress, but reversed that pledge in 2020.